INTERVIEW
Since December, the power of Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russia in the air, has resumed its offensive in north-western Syria against the ultimate great bastion of jihadists and rebels, despite the warnings of the Turkish neighbor. At the microphone of Europe 1, Firas Kontar, Franco-Syrian jurist and opponent of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, denounces a "catastrophic" situation in the province of Idleb. According to the information he gathered from Syrians on the spot via Whatsapp, "the few humanitarian actions can no longer meet the enormous needs of the populations".
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"The flow of refugees leads to saturation of the roads and logistics are on the verge of giving up," says Firas Kontar. "We have children who died last night in the cold and whole families living in despair. The humanitarian situation may be at a point that has never been reached in nine years of conflict in Syria," said -t it.
"These people were moved to finally tell them that if there are jihadists, we will bomb them"
Supported by the Russian aviation, the regime of Bashar al Assad targets villages with the pretext that they are the last jihadist strongholds in the region, but it is also a question of reconquering the national territory. And Turkey and its rebel allies are trying to hinder the advancement of the regime, which now controls nearly half of the province of Idleb.
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"It is said that there are perhaps 20,000 jihadists in Idleb, but does one ask the question of the four million Syrians who live there? [...] These people were displaced to finally tell them that if there are jihadists, we will bomb them. But in what situation we have put these poor people! " denounces Firas Kontar.
"A strategy of crime against humanity"
Asked about the bombing of hospitals in Syria, Firas Kontar returned to New York Times investigations "very thorough", according to him, with the recording of pilots who were revealed, proving that the hospitals were the target of the Russian aviation. "There are more than 60 bombings in 2019 against medical infrastructure in Syria," he said. "It is not only a few attacks. We have a strategy of crime against humanity and we are moving forward with this strategy."