fri 08 jan 2016, 13:03

‘Also send medicines to Madaya’

AMSTERDAM –

Doctors without Borders wants that residents of the Syrian town Madaya except food also drugs. Reports that the aid agency Friday. The place near the Lebanese border, for months the scene of clashes between the Syrian army and rebel groups.

Een bijzonder indringende en droevige foto van een jongen die stervende is van de honger in de omsingelde Syrische plaats Madaya, waar de inwoners al sinds lange tijd geen voedsel hebben kunnen krijgen... Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking) noemt het uithongeren van de inwoners van Madaya misdadig.

A particularly poignant and sad photo of a young boy who is dying of hunger in the embattled Syrian town Madaya, where the inhabitants already since a long time, no food can get… Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and development Cooperation) mentions the starving of the citizens of Madaya criminal.
Photo: AP

Because Madaya is besieged, are the medications and the food. Thursday pulled up the entire Second Room in the cabinet to the call about the famine in the Syrian town. Sjoerd Sjoerdsma of D66 wants the government, the United Nations encourages the emergency relief.

Minister Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and development Cooperation) mentions the starving of the citizens of Madaya criminal. They said Friday talks on emergency aid, with the United Nations and the Red Cross.