Social media of regime has been taken by storm in the last few days in the wake of Aleppo governor law issuing removing all the movable shops in the city. Some people welcomed the decision at the time others objected, particularly the owners of these shops. This kind of shops was a source of living to poor people amid few work opportunities as most facilities and factories are ruined.
The pretext of the governor is that this decision comes to meet the calls of citizens in the areas in which movable stores spread causing noise which the citizens are no longer able to tolerate, and that those movable shops uglify the classy neighborhoods turning them to public ones.
Ghazal who is a displaced student from Deir Azzor where she is living in Aleppo city along with her family, said: ” Moveable shops saved so much money and effort, where I used after college to buy our groceries with cheap price in comparison with the markets, for being public shops. However, now they are gone so that we need to go the market which means more time and money considering transportation costs”.
Abo Omar who had a moveable shop selling hijab and bags, said with brokenhearted tone: “I was getting goods as debt from a merchant to sell them later paying the merchant back and gaining simple profit to provide my family with the basic needs of life after regime displaced us destroying our house in its raids, now it is depriving us now from our only source of living. I can not afford the high rents of shops.”
Abo Samir who supports the law said: “after sweeping the moveable shops, our neighborhood becomes classy away from the noise of sellers just like before war”, probably he has a source of income not affected with war and that is why he can not sympathy with ones who lost their houses and source of living.
Why does regime take these steps at this period at which poor citizens are going through dire circumstances including displacement and oppression amid absence of work opportunities in the city?
by Samah al-Khaled
translated by Sabah Najem
Syrian Press center
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