In Damascus, skyrocketing costs of living for a miserable life!

In Damascus, skyrocketing costs of living for a miserable life!
“Prices are Parisian, but the quality of life is African”, this is how life in Damascus is described.

A Syrian resident, or refugee, in Damascus struggles to continue the month without incurring debts due to the huge increases in houses rents as well as food stuffs. Whereas employees’ salaries in the Assad regime’s departments are barely enough for few days or a week at best.

On the other hand, merchants enjoying support by Assad’s regime, as well as thousands of his thugs, have amassed fortunes, either through monopolizing merchandise, or stealing, kidnapping, or trading in the files of detainees.

Assad’s regime official media confirmed that a 5-people family needs in average 260,000 Syrian pounds, corresponding to USD 500, knowing that the price of a US dollar reached 550 Syrian pounds.

Still, the salary of a Syrian civil servant is about 30,000 Syrian pounds in average. Such servants were not exempted from Assad’s suppression. The security forces have detained thousands of them to send them to the battle fields, meanwhile many others were dismissed just because they hail from rebel areas.

“Hundreds of families that fled Damascus country sides towards the capital to escape from Assad’s missiles and barrel-bombs are suffering. The majority of these families do not have steady jobs, and merchants control houses rents,” said media activist, Mohammed Abdul Aziz.

The speaker indicated that the decision of recruiting and sending civil servants to battle fields had a prominent impact on life in Damascus as it forced thousands of young people to stay at home fearing military conscription.

The activist added that, “With winter approaching, there seem to be no solutions to people’s sufferings. Assad’s forces are exerting strong pressures on civilians, and the movement in the streets of Damascus is very limited. Most of those in the streets are women, because it is no longer safe for a man to go out, except those who volunteered in Assad’s sectarian thugs to earn many for killing Syrians.”

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