Sunday, January 20, 2013

STRAIN OF WAR BEGINNING TO SHOW IN CENTRAL DAMASCUS


STRAIN OF WAR BEGINNING TO SHOW IN CENTRAL DAMASCUS AND LATEST MASSACRE PROMPTS PLEA FROM UN HIGH COMMISSIONER:
The strain is also being felt in central Damascus where many people from the suburbs have now moved and been taken in by relatives or friends.  Some houses are reported to be accommodating as many as 30 to 50 people and bread queues are starting to stretch into waits that last hours.
http://www.petercliffordonine.com/syria-news
Buying Bread in Bulk While it’s Available
Inside the “Damascus Bubble”, citizens still drink hot chocolate inside cafes and civil servants still get on public transport to go to work, but the petrol queues now snake around the block and talk is of “high energy biscuits”, food normally reserved for countries in famine. 
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet reports from Damascus, HERE: 
In more rural areas, local residents have now taken to illegally cutting down trees in order to provide fuel for cooking and to keep warm.  Al Jazeera has a video report, HERE: 
Lyse Doucet has also now filed a video report and an updated article on the massacre at Hasawiya. What has emerged is that this was the work of the Alawite militia, the Shabiha, and latest reports suggest that as many as 150 died in the village.



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