Activists in Al Waer District Launch a Campaign to Raise Awareness of Assad’s Atrocities

Syrian activists has launched a campaign titled “Al Waer Under Fire” to raise awareness of the atrocities committed by regime forces in the besieged district located west of Homs and to prompt the international organizations to provide medical and relief aid to the trapped civilians. The campaign’s statement warned that Al Waer could be at the brink of huge troubles, threatening of possible humanitarian crisis, in which civilians would be the first victims. “Al Waer Under Fire” statement demanded the international organizations and effective parties to be up to their responsibilities toward the neighborhood, and to find a strategy to protect civilians from the mass killing committed by the regime’s forces. The Facebook has big response to the campaign, where many expressed their anger and disgustingness from the international prevailing silence toward what has been happening in Al Waer. Regime forces continued their campaign to re-capture the last rebel-held district in Homs on, shelling Al Waer while at the same time maintaining tight control of checkpoints encircling it. “The regime is using a policy of starvation to subjugate al-Waer,” an activist calling herself Judy al-Homsi said, echoing charges that the Assad regime is not allowing food, fuel or medicine into the district nor letting anyone leave. “Civilians wake up to the sounds of explosions and random gunfire,” said al-Homsi, an al-Waer-based member of Homs’s Youth Coalition of the Revolution.  Salim al-Meslet, spokesman for the Syrian Coalition, warns of the risks of the international anti-ISIS coalition’s continued ignoring of the terrorism of the Assad regime as this would undermine the Syrian people’s confidence in the goals of this coalition.”