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SYRIAN CHRISTIANS FEAR REPETITION OF MAALOULA HORRORS AND DREAM OF RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP
by Emmanuil Lazarian
ARMINFO
Thursday, October 17, 13:29
Nearly 50,000 Syrian Christians are ready to apply for the Russian
citizenship to avoid the oncoming humanitarian crisis, a Russian
reporter to Syria Ankhar Kochneva told Radio Golos Rossii.
She said that nearly 200,000 Christians live in Damascus Kalamun
province that is facing a humanitarian crisis.
"The province sheltered nearly 20,000 refugees from Homs and
Hoser where rebels held military actions. Since Kalamun was a
tourism-oriented town, the local residents have been left jobless.
Part of them are not refugees and do not fall under jurisdiction of
the ICRC and the RCRC. They receive no aid, have no money, no food,"
the reporter said.
The panic is growing among the local population. "They are afraid
that rebels will attack the villages like it happened in the town of
Maaloula. Many residents had to take arms to protect their homes. We
talked to them. They really pin big hopes with Russia," Kochneva said.
From: Baghdasarian
by Emmanuil Lazarian
ARMINFO
Thursday, October 17, 13:29
Nearly 50,000 Syrian Christians are ready to apply for the Russian
citizenship to avoid the oncoming humanitarian crisis, a Russian
reporter to Syria Ankhar Kochneva told Radio Golos Rossii.
She said that nearly 200,000 Christians live in Damascus Kalamun
province that is facing a humanitarian crisis.
"The province sheltered nearly 20,000 refugees from Homs and
Hoser where rebels held military actions. Since Kalamun was a
tourism-oriented town, the local residents have been left jobless.
Part of them are not refugees and do not fall under jurisdiction of
the ICRC and the RCRC. They receive no aid, have no money, no food,"
the reporter said.
The panic is growing among the local population. "They are afraid
that rebels will attack the villages like it happened in the town of
Maaloula. Many residents had to take arms to protect their homes. We
talked to them. They really pin big hopes with Russia," Kochneva said.
From: Baghdasarian