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The Syrian regime suffers in the areas under its control the crisis of the daily bread supply for its citizens, and this crisis began months ago due to its inability to provide flour.
However, the Syrian regime still refuses to acknowledge that crisis, and despite the long lines that witness it, in which people queue in front of government bakeries for hours to get bread, the regime continues to insist on accusing the citizen being the main cause of the bread crisis, as Syrian media attribute the crisis. To the lack of citizen conscience, their destitute culture and their excessive rush to stock up on food in times of prosperity.
A shocking image spread on social media of iron cages installed by the regime to organize rounds of bread lines in front of the “Ibn Al-Ameed” ovens in the Rukn Al-Din area of Damascus, within which the citizens appear as prisoners.
The image unleashed a wave of anger on social networks, so the director of bakeries in Damascus, Nader Asmandar, came out with a statement accusing citizens of being the main reason that pushed him to put those cages to organize the role, and he only said: “The culture of the role does not exist in our country, and that method is to organize the role and separate between Men, women and army soldiers.”
Although the image that Syrians circulated on social media pages does not just document the cages in front of Ibn al-Ameed’s ovens, a Damascus source informed Al-Modon that several bakeries in the Syrian capital and its countryside were placed in front of them similar cages, and that Ibn al-Ameed’s ovens are not unique to this scene. In front of the Al-Amin furnace in the Al-Amin area in ancient Damascus, the same mechanism is used.
This shocking image seems nothing more than an inevitable result of everything that has been associated with the bread crisis since its inception. The Syrian regime, which seems to be used to blaming and whipping the citizen for any problem, has propagated through its media since the beginning of the bread crisis a few months ago, that the citizen is the one who caused the bread crisis, and that citizens buy more than they need.
At that time, the regime proposed the first solution to deal with the phenomenon of endless queues in front of automatic baking ovens, and was distributing bread through the smart card to organize the role and needs of citizens, but this The method was quickly adapted by the Syrian regime to become a tool by which the needs of citizens were exploited in a more crude way, and through it reduced the number of daily breads and rations for families, to try to earn something time in the flour crisis it faces, which left larger queues and increased people’s suffering.
The card was not smart and had many technical flaws that prevented the process from moving quickly. A witness who works in one of these ovens explains about the mechanism of the smart card system, saying: “To complete the operation, the ovens need the presence of the Internet, and in most of the ovens the network is poor due to the presence of enormous mechanisms that interrupt the existence of the network, in addition to the slowness of the application and the presence of major defects in it, which lead to repetition or failure of the withdrawal process. Actually, we need about a minute to complete the process, which contributes to an increase in waiting time for citizens ”.
All ovens are based on a method of organizing houses, followed in Syria since the 1980s, which consists of dividing the floor into three windows. A window for men, a window for women and a window for the military, knowing that the military window is prohibited from standing in front of it except for people who have military identity, which can be purchased in the areas controlled by the regime with amounts of money from up to $ 200, and for which the person obtains other military privileges, such as going through military checkpoints from the line. Fast military.
To the priority of the military is added the priority of those approved by the state, who are allowed to take large quantities of bread and sell it in other areas that do not have ovens. The state or bakeries did not organize special outings for those approved or their own work schedules, which causes them to storm the waiting lines to assume the role of civilians and get large quantities of bread.
An employee at one of the bakeries tells Al-Modon that the approved person breaks into the waiting queue and takes about a hundred packages of bread at a time, which takes almost an hour to produce, which leaves a long time. waiting for the production of other ties to meet the needs of those who wait. We cannot drop it or delay it. Its function, because it is a state mandate and has official papers and has priority. “
Faced with the poverty that is eating away most of Syrian society at home, those who have the money are still the luckiest, and do not suffer the weight of those queues, since from four in the morning civilians begin to wait in front of the ovens, before they open and start working to secure your bread as quickly as possible.
A source told Al-Modon that they adopt other methods: “I am connected to a job and I don’t have the ability to wait six hours a day to secure bread, so I turn to the poor who are working to wait their turn in front of the ovens, so I give them money and a smart card in exchange for a sum of money, which is 1000 Syrian Pounds, and they deliver bread home after hours. There are also a lot of children who work while they wait for bread, and they do it for very small sums of up to 500 pounds only. “
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