tiaraVillaRuby - Wilayah Aleppo dikunci dalam pertempuran berterusan
di antara campuran Islam garis keras dengan apa yang dipanggil pembangkang
sederhana, dan kuasa-kuasa k'jaan Syria. Namun, RT, Maria Finoshina mendapati
pejuang masih membuat keuntungan luar bekas pusat perindustrian Syria.
Kota Purba Aleppo, sebahagian daripada Senarai
Warisan DUNIA, pada satu ketika telah digambarkan sebagai mempunyai "nilai
universal yang luar biasa kerana ia mewakili zaman pertengahan gaya seni bina
Arab yang jarang berlaku dan sahih, di habitat manusia tradisional,"
tetapi kini sebagai perang dahsyat mengheret, enjin budaya dan ekonomi Syria
mendapati dirinya dalam kemusnahan lengkap.
Setelah ibu kota perniagaan Syria, pusat industri
dan wilayah paling kaya, kini Aleppo berjuang untuk mengira kerugian dari
hampir 4 tahun peperangan.
"Kami mempunyai pasaran yang besar di Aleppo
dan berdaya saing, lebih murah daripada negara-negara jiran, tenaga buruh yang
murah, sumber kuasa yang mencukupi, semua ini pasaran jiran terjejas ini
menyebabkan misi pengganas 'adalah utk memusnahkan Syria - melalui Aleppo,
enjin di negara ini," Mohammad Djmoul, pemilik kilang kerja logam kepada
RT, Maria Finoshina.
Bandar Sheikh Najjar, kelompok industri luar Aleppo
pernah menjadi rumah kepada lebih daripada 1200 kilang-kilang dan perusahaan.
Bandar 15 kilometer dari pusat serantau tlh diambil oleh kumpulan jihad Satu
Nusra yg lebih daripada 2 tahun yang lalu.
Pertempuran telah lebih atau
kurang secara berterusan sejak itu, tetapi apabila krew RT melawat ia, Sheikh
Najjar secara rasmi dianggap bebas daripada militan.
Jalan-raya dan bangunan separuh dimusnahkan kediaman
kosong di bahagian-bahagian besar Aleppo dan begitu juga dengan mana-mana
prospek pemulihan ekonomi yang segera. Sebagai sebahagian daripada lawatan
bandar yang musnah, RT bertemu Tareq Jenanni, pemilik kilang tekstil, yg
berkata perniagaannya telah kehilangan 90 % peratus daripada kapasiti
pengeluaran pra-peperangan.
Kilangnya yang digunakan untuk menghasilkan 50 ribu
meter tisu cap dagang Aleppo setiap bulan. Itu kini hanya 5000, dia menyalahkan
militan bagi kerugian itu.
"Aleppo dikenali untuk mengeksport dan saya
telah menghasilkan sesuatu untuk eksport juga - untuk semua negara-negara Arab.
Inilah sebabnya mengapa mereka datang ke sini, "kata Jennani. "Misi
mereka adalah untuk menghentikan eksport, dan memusnahkan infrastruktur - Dan
melemahkan negara kami"
Sebagai pertempuran untuk Aleppo berterusan, militan
menggunakan kekuatan perindustrian sekali daerah, untuk mengaut keuntungan
dengan mengorbankan orang lain.
Tambang Shehabi, ketua Aleppo Dewan Industri
memberitahu RT bahawa militan membenarkan kilang untuk bekerja hanya jika
barang itu diedarkan di kawasan pemberontak yang dipegang dan secara percuma,
yang membayangkan kewujudan buruh hamba dalam poket militan dikawal.
"Jika mereka jenis, mereka meletakkan wang
tebusan, jika mereka tidak jenis - yang biasanya kes itu, mereka meletakkan
pistol di kepala anda dan mengambil barang-barang anda. Dan kemudian mereka
menjualnya dan membeli senjata. Sangat primitif dan sangat jenayah,
"Shehabi kepada RT.
Pengeluar & menginap memberitahu pemberontak:
"Jika anda tidak membenarkan kita maka kita tidak boleh mendapatkan wang
untuk membeli bahan2 mentah, maka kita tidak akan dapat menjual di kawasan
anda juga!"
"Kami tidak berurusan dengan graduan kolej - kita
berurusan dengan tahap pendidikan rendah," kata Shehabi.
Sebuah bas mini sarat dengan beg bersedia untuk
menaiki berhampiran bangunan musnah di kawasan pemberon-tak yang dikawal di
bandar Syria utara Aleppo pada November 20, 2014 (A minibus loaded with bags is
prepared for a ride near a destroyed building in a rebel-controlled area in the
northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 20, 2014 (AFP Photo/Zein Al-Rifan)
SYRIAN Militants
PROFIT On ruins Of FORMER
Industrial CAPITAL . . .
Aleppo province is locked in ongoing fighting
between a mix of hardline Islamists with so-called moderate opposition, and Syrian
govt forces. Yet, RT’s Maria Finoshina found that combatants are still making
profit off Syria’s former industrial center.
The Ancient City of Aleppo, part of World Heritage
List, at one point was described as having “exceptional universal value because
it represents medieval Arab architectural styles that are rare and authentic,
in traditional human habitats,” but now as the devastating war drags on, the
cultural and economic engine of Syria finds itself in complete destruction.
Once Syria’s business capital, industrial center and
richest province, now Aleppo struggles to calculate the losses from almost 4
years of war.
“We had a huge market in Aleppo and competitive,
cheaper than neighboring countries, a cheap labor force, enough power
resources, all this affected neighboring markets this is why the terrorists’
mission was to destroy Syria – through Aleppo, the country's engine,” Mohammad
Djmoul, a metal working factory owner told RT’s Maria Finoshina.
The city of Sheikh Najjar, an industrial cluster
outside Aleppo used to be home to more than 1200 factories and enterprises. The
city 15 kilometres from the regional centre was taken by the jihadist An Nusra
group more than 2 years ago. Clashes have been more or less continuous ever
since, but when RT crew visited it, Sheikh Najjar was officially considered
free of militants.
The streets and the half-destroyed residential
buildings are empty in large parts of Aleppo and so is the prospect of any
immediate economic recovery. As part of the tour of the destroyed city, RT met
Tareq Jenanni, a textile factory owner, who says his business has lost 90
percent of pre-war production capacity.
His factory used to produce 50 thousand meters of
Aleppo’s trademark tissue every month. That’s now just 5 thousand, he blames
the militants for his losses.
“Aleppo is known for exporting and I was producing
things for export too – to all Arab countries. This is why they came here,”
Jennani said. “Their mission is to stop exports, and destroy infrastructure –
and weaken our state.”
As the battle for Aleppo continues, militants use
the once industrial might of the province to profiteer at the expense of
others.
Fares Shehabi, head of Aleppo Chamber of Industry
told RT that militants allow factories to work only if the goods are
distributed in rebel held areas and for free, implying the existence of slave
labor in militant controlled pockets.
“If they are kind, they put ransom, if they are not
kind – which is usually the case, they put gun to your head and take your goods.
And then they sell it and buy weapons. Very primitive and very criminal,”
Shehabi told RT. The producers keep telling the rebels: “If you don’t allow us
then we cannot get money to buy raw materials, then we will not be able to sell
in your areas as well!”
“We are not dealing with college graduates – we
dealing with elementary education level,” Shehabi said.
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