About 20 ethnic Armenians are in captivity in Syrian Kesab, Armenian MPs report (+video)

As reported on April 1 at a press conference by the members of the parliamentary delegation who returned from Syria, three Armenian prisoners from the Syrian city of Kesab, inhabited predominantly by Armenians, were released, but about 20 Armenians were still in captivity.

Let us remind you that on March 21 Kesab and nearby settlements were attacked by groupings of the "Al-Nusra Front" and "Islamic Front". About 600 Armenian families were evacuated from Kesab to Latakia.

On March 28, over 200 persons held an action in Yerevan, demanding from the United Nations to announce its official position on the situation in the Syrian district of Kesab. They appealed to the international community with a demand to "influence Turkey to stop military incitements and anti-Armenian action in Syria."

According to Edmon Marukyan, a Deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, to date, Armenian families are in Latakia. According to his story, 320 families were housed by and receive humanitarian aid from the Armenian Apostolic Church of Latakia. About the same number were sheltered by their relatives, friends or just Syrian families.

The MP has added that "Kesab followed the fate of Aleppo, where all the factories were looted, and the last nut was taken to Turkey." According to his version, they gather all the facts and evidence of the destructive policies of this country. "On the eve of the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the world is witnessing that the Turkish ideology of destructing Armenians has not changed, only their methods are different," Marukyan has concluded.