The US State Department condemned the Assad regime's siege of Homs in order to exert leverage as peace talks take place in Geneva, reports the Washington Post.
Dismissing the regime's claims that it was rebel snipers and armed groups preventing World Food Program food convoys from reaching the people of Homs, the US State Department placed the blame at the Assam regime for deliberately halting the convoys.
The State Department spokesperson, Edgar Vasquez said,
Dismissing the regime's claims that it was rebel snipers and armed groups preventing World Food Program food convoys from reaching the people of Homs, the US State Department placed the blame at the Assam regime for deliberately halting the convoys.
The State Department spokesperson, Edgar Vasquez said,
“The only reason this assistance has not been delivered is that the regime has refused to let the convoy through,”A Syrian citizen journalist, Qusai Zakarya, who has previously written on the Assad regime's use of seize and forced starvation as a means of blackmailing the population of the Homs said,
“We are at the most advanced stage of Assad’s starvation weapon,”
“You just want things to end, no matter when, no matter how.”