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The bread of blood.
A name that was chosen for Friday demonstrations in which the Syrians' bread was dyed with their blood.
What happened in Helfaya and Talbeesah wasn’t the only reason for which the rebels rose up.
It’s the dozens of massacres that took place in front of bakeries.
The reason for which they dedicate this Friday in solidarity with their victims.
and to deliver a message which says: Stop shelling bakeries that barely provide the least of what people need.
The first shelling of a bakery took place in Asheera Neighborhood in Homs in mid-January last year.
Afterwards, targeting bakeries became, as described by the revolution’s coordination, a systematic policy
which aims at making people starve in order to make them surrender.
Not to mention the punishment imposed on the rebellious neighborhoods and the ones that sympathize with the FSA.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights registered the shelling of 33 bakeries by the regime forces.
resulting in the killing of 310 people including 60 children, 4 women and not less than 1000 injured individuals.
Aleppo, Northern Syria, comes in the first place,
where the regime’s forces targeted 24 bakeries, according to the General Committee of the Syrian Revolution.
Homs comes next.
It should be mentioned here what the residents in Al Huson Citadel were subjected to,
when the security forces poisoned the bread,
which led to food poisoning resulting in the death of some citizens.
After Homs comes Hama which witnessed a massacre in Helfaya recently.
Then Idlib and Deir Al Zour, in which bakeries where shelled with MiG warplanes and mortar missiles.
The Syrian Network also considered that targeting bakeries is a crime against humanity
holding the Syrian regime fully accountable for these massacres.
and demanding in referring the perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.