Haneen Al-Sayyed – Idlib – Horrya Press
Assad’s Regime has force migrated the inhabitants of cities and towns to the Syrian northern areas, after the suffocating siege and the heavy shelling they faced. Most migrants headed to Idlib’s province in the Syrian north, leaving their land, homes, and member of their families behind them. However, the suffering caused by migration did not end when arriving at their destination, but many of them are still suffering from it, as reaching out to their relatives have become almost impossible.
“Amira Younus” is one of the migrants from Damascus’s countryside, who used to live in an area called Wadi Barada. Amira lost her mom, dad, and brother in the war, and left two other bothers in Assad’s- controlled areas, and moved to Idlib alone. In an interview with Horrya Press, Amira described her suffering as she said: “I’ve got married 11 years ago, and never had a baby, so I thought that my family is going to make this loss up for me, but Al-Assad’s regime has deprived me of that, as it killed a part of my beloved family, and kept another part alive, but now, I consider them all dead”.
Amira added “I cannot go back to my town, and I don’t know a thing about my brothers who are still alive, as Al-Assad’s regime has curtailed the siege on the citizens who have any relatives in the Syrian north, the regime has even prevented them from contacting them over internet, and many people have paid the price of contacting their family members by getting arrested, I know many people who got arrested just for a Whatsapp conversation.”
The psychological stress and nostalgia for family and home were not the only obstacles that faced “Amira”, but the housing and working crises, the lack of may, and other factors have all combined to make it even worse for her, but in return, she challenged the difficulties, and faced them with the determination of the Syrian woman, who always defeated suffering and injustice, and managed to live through all, Amira turned to learn weaving in a workshop with a number of women just like her in the city of Ma’arret Al-Nu’man to the south of Idlib.
In the interview, Amira pointed out that she is working hard to ensure her life’s necessities by her own, without needing the help of anyone, proving that she is able to move on with her life, and that the criminality of Al-Assad’s Regime will not succeed in turning her to a depressed complainer, as she refuses to yield to its laws at all costs, she is also trying to develop her clothes sewing’s career, hoping that one day the war will end and that she goes back to her town and meets who is left of her family.
Bear in mind that Assad’s Regime is sticking to its policy of oppression and pressure against the migrated families in the Syrian north, by spreading rumors on preparing for a military convoy that is going to depart from freed areas in the Syrian North, to head Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus, and that this convoy will have the name of “The convoy of regret”, according to a source from Al-Assad’s-controlled areas.
The number of Syrians, who migrated inside Syria, due to the displacement process carried out by Al-Assad’s Regime and its allies, is 6.2 million people, in comparison to 5.6 refugees living in the neighboring countries, according to the United Nations’ statistics.
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