Syria: entry into force a humanitarian truce declared by Moscow

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Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 03:42

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A humanitarian truce daily five hours announced by Russia came into force on Tuesday in Syria, including in the rebel enclave under siege of the Ghouta orientale, the target for the last 10 days of a fierce air campaign, the regime had made more than 560 civilian casualties.

According to a correspondent of the AFP at Douma, the largest city in the Ghouta orientale, as well as the Observatory syrian human rights (OSDH), the night was quiet in the stronghold of a rebel with some artillery fire has echoed just before the entry into force of the truce.

“Now calm reigns in the towns and cities of the Ghouta east”, assured the AFP the director of the OSDH.

The pause for humanitarian purposes is supposed to be applied daily for five hours, between 9 h and 14 h local, according to Moscow, an ally of the syrian regime.

Of “humanitarian corridors” will also be put in place to allow the evacuation of civilians, announced on Monday the Russian Defence minister, Sergei Choïgou.

The announcement of Russian and the stop part of the bombing occurred as the UN and several western powers had called for the immediate implementation of a security Council resolution, remained hitherto a dead letter, calling for a truce “without delay” of 30 days in all of Syria.

According to residents of the Ghouta orientale, the last pocket of resistance to the regime of Bashar al-Assad at the gates of the capital, the decision of Moscow is, however, the powder in the eyes.

“This truce is a farce, Russia is killing us every day and bombards us every day,” says the AFP Samer al-Bouydani, an inhabitant of the state Duma. “I can’t trust its authors to leave (the Ghouta) with my family (through the corridors). If I agree to go out, (the plan) me enrôlera immediately into the army to fight other Syrians”.