Syria sent on Saturday a letter to the UN Secretary General and Head of the Security Council demanding condemnation of the terrorist massacre committed in al-Zara village in southern Hama.
Syria sent on Saturday a letter to the UN Secretary General and Head of the Security Council demanding condemnation of the terrorist massacre committed in al-Zara village in southern Hama.
Foreign Ministry’s letters said the massacre was perpetrated by Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham terrorist organizations and other factions allied with them, which some Western and other countries still insist on classifying them as “moderate armed groups”.
After infiltrating the village at dawn on Thursday while its people were sleeping, terrorist groups raided homes and killed children, women and elderly in a brutal manner and abducted a number of others in a new horrific bloody massacre.
Damascus noted that before the massacre happened, the terrorists had shelled the village using mortars, rockets and homemade (Hell) cannons, leaving many civilian casualties and causing huge damage to houses and public and private properties.
It also referred to the terrorists’ execution of a number of civilians at a bridge in al-Rastan area, while scores were injured in attacks.
Committing this “appalling massacre goes in line with the series of the systematic terrorist attacks targeting many Syrian cities that are being carried out under direct orders from the regimes of extremism in Riyadh, Ankara and Doha,” the letter said, according to SANA.
These attacks are aimed at foiling the efforts seeking to stop the Syrian bloodshed through derailing Geneva talks and thwarting the truce arrangements and the cessation of hostilities in the country, according to the letter.
This new massacre came at a time when the Security Council representatives of the US, France, Britain and Ukraine have declined to place Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham on the Council’s list of terrorist groups, the ministry said.
This, the letter said, proves that these countries are encouraging criminal acts committed by these terrorist groups and insisting on turning blind eyes to them and shows that they are not serious about fighting terrorism and maintaining the cessation of hostilities.
