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Sit-in in solidarity in Beirut with women held in captivity in Suwayda
8-10-2018
The PSP women’s sector organized on Friday a sit-in in front of ESCWA headquarters in downtown Beirut in solidarity with Druze women from Suwayda kidnapped and held in captivity by ISIS. The demonstrators called for their release protesting the prejudiced stand of the international community. The PSP women’s sector’s commissioner, Manal Saeed, strongly denounced the execution of one of the captives, Tharwat Abu Ammar, reiterating her party’s support for the remaining kidnapped women and their children in Syria. “We feel our powerlessness to assimilate the extent of brutality ISIS terrorism has reached, and our inability to understand the disgraceful deafness of the international community towards this humanitarian cause,” Saeed lamented. “We are starting to think that the lives of the kidnapped women have become cheaper for some parties, which drives us to question the reasons behind this discriminatory position,” Saeed said. “We should draw attention to the ugliness of the suffering women put up with during periods of conflict and war around the world in general, particularly in Syria,” the PSP officer said, stressing the importance of the show of solidarity by progressive groups from a purely humanitarian viewpoint. (Al Mustaqbal, October 6, 2018)
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