The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 65 buses depart from the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta towards their destination in the Syrian north carrying hundreds of fighters, their families and civilians refuse the agreement

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that convoy of displaced people has departed from the outskirts of the Eastern Ghouta, in about 65 buses coming out of Douma city, and it headed towards Syrian north, where it includes hundreds of fighters with their families and civilians who refuse the agreement between Jaysh al-Islam, and, the Russians and representatives of the regime, while the process of preparing the remaining buses in Douma city is still underway, to move the second batch to the same destination in the Syrian north, where the Observatory published during the past few hours that in the coming hours, more abductees and captives by Jaysh al-Islam are expected to be released in conjunction with the exit of more buses from the Eastern Ghouta, in the framework of implementing the agreement reached and started to be carried out yesterday, Sunday, the 8th of April 2018, while resentment prevails among the relatives of the abductees and captives, because until now only one batch of abductees and captives was released while the busses were getting out yesterday, where they held a sit-in in the middle of Damascus, while buses preparing process continues in conjunction with the first entry of the Russian military police to Douma city, where the Russian delegation visited the place in which a massacre took place on Saturday in Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta, which left hundreds of casualties and wounded due to the shelling and suffocation caused by the recent bombardment on the last city for Jaysh al-Islam in the Eastern Ghouta.

And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that it  received a copy of a circular issued by Jaysh al-Islam in written form, which was distributed through leaflets to the people in Douma, where Jaysh al-Islam talked about its decision to leave Douma completely after the “consulting the scholars and advisers”, and in response to popular pressure and the pressure of revolutionary institutions, as a result of a barbaric and intolerable bombardment, and that it is ready to serve those who wish to come out with it, wishing that those within the age of compulsory service to come out, because the regime required give them a six-month grace period and then calling them to serve the conscription service, and those who want to get out should start preparing for it, and for those who want to stay; the Chechen police will deploy in the vicinity of Douma, and the regime and its security branches are prevented from entering the city, and a committee will be formed to resolve the outstanding matters, while the people are given 6 months either to settle their situation or to leave the Eastern Ghouta, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that the agreement also provides for the return of school and university students to their educational institutions after settling the situation of the wanted ones, and reissuing identity papers for all those who lost their personal IDs during the past years, this will be carried out by coordinating with committees that will be formed for this purpose with the rehabilitation of the city and its infrastructure.