With Assad's regime
targeting bakeries, displaced families are starving as harsh weather compounds
the struggle for food
If this were not bad
enough, there is overwhelming evidence that the military forces of Syria's
President Bashar al-Assad have
deliberately targeted bakeries, in what appears to be official policy to starve
rebel areas into submission. (It has also hit field hospitals, schools and
civilian areas.) The al-Bab factory has been targeted three times; the last time
a rocket injured six bakery workers. "We wanted freedom and look what happened.
The regime cut everything," Qasab said.
A smaller bakery nearby was still operational: 500 people were waiting outside; each had a number scrawled in ink on their palms. It was unclear when, if at all, bread might emerge, like a minor miracle, from a small factory hatch.
This week, as desperation rises, the first food demonstrations have broken out in rural areas; some have resorted to trying to bake bread at home, with Syria returning to its Ottoman past. The FSA, in effect the government now in much of Syria's countryside, admits that there is little it can do....."
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