Text Message to Residents in Aleppo: You Have 24 Hours to Leave

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Text Message to Residents in Aleppo: You Have 24 Hours to Leave

By Correspondent

Residents of Aleppo woke to a stern SMS, early Sunday Morning, warning civilians to vacate the city. The message, regarded as a retort to rebels launching an offensive, read in part, “To the armed people in the neighbourhoods of east Aleppo, we are giving you 24 hours only to decide if you are leaving. Your leadership abroad is incapable of getting you out. Whoever wants to stay alive must drop his weapons and we will secure his safety. After the 24 hours is up we will implement a strategic attack using highly sophisticated weapons.”The sick and wounded were especially indulged to leave the city before the resumption of airstrikes; rebels were also given the option to give up their leaders and lay down their arms or risk death.Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad led government began preparing an offensive after rebels reportedly led a divided city to break the Syrian government and Russian siege lines from the West late October.United Nations has accused Russia and the Syrian Government of killing civilians and purposely bombing areas where civilians are concentrated. War-torn Aleppo has been a barrage of war since 2012 since the first gunfire between rebels and security forces broke out on the night of July 2012; leaving scores dead and thousands wounded.The war which has been characterized by the Syrian army’s indiscriminate use of barrel bombs dropped from Helicopters, killing thousands of people, and purposeful targeting of civilians, including Hospitals and Schools by the Syrian government, its Russian allies and rebels; has blatantly disregarded Humanitarian law since the eruption of the crisis.Opposition rebels last week have been accused by Amnesty International of releasing chlorine gas in densely populated civilian areas, warning that “”¦..the siege on Eastern Aleppo does not give armed opposition groups a license to flout the rules of International Humanitarian law by bombarding civilian neighbourhoods in government-held areas without distinction.”The Syrian government and a secondary group, ISIL; have been separately implicated in the use of deadly chemical weapons in the on-going conflict by the Joint Investigative Mechanism of the UN. The investigation revealed Sulfur Mustard, a chemical weapon, was injected into munitions used in Talmenes, Qmenas, and Sarmin in 2014, and twice in 2015 respectively.The state of the defunct commercial city bemoans the plight of over 250,000 civilians living in constant trepidation of near death experiences. The UN has cautioned on the grave possibility of mass starvation in a war not likely to end anytime soon.

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