Alwaght- Syrians on Friday gallantly marked Martyrs’ Day and vowed to defeat foreign backed terrorists in the country.
More than a century has passed since the execution of Syrian nationalists and intellectuals at al-Marjeh Square in Damascus by the Ottoman’s ruler Jamal Basha, who was known as al-Saffah (the blood shedder), on May 6th, 1916.
The Martyrs’ Day occasion holds very special significance for the Syrian people who stress their determination to make sacrifices and offer more martyrs in order to defending their homeland’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
On this day, the Syrian people salute those who sacrificed their souls for the sake of protecting their homeland and the Syrian army soldiers who are fighting in the battlefields.
The Syrians reiterated their adherence to follow their predecessors starting with May 6th martyrs, Yousef al-Azmeh and his colleagues’ struggle against the French occupation and the heroes of October Liberation war.
Neither the Ottoman ruler Jamal Basha nor the Turkish-backed terrorist organizations’ heinous crimes will undermine the Syrians’ willingness to defeat terrorism, the last of which targeting Aleppo city with hundreds of rocket and mortar shells over the past ten days which caused the martyrdom and the injury of hundreds.
To mark this occasion, an event that included lighting candles in honor of martyrs was held at Umawiyeen Square in Damascus.
Elsewhere, President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday stressed that Russia’s honorable stances and standing by the Syrian people against terrorism is considered a natural continuity of Russian people’s long history of fighting injustice and aggression and supporting the peoples’ fair causes.
The remarks came in President al-Assad’s congratulatory cable to President Vladimir Putin of Russia on the occasion of Victory Day over Nazism.
In his cable, President al-Assad expressed, on behalf of the Syrian people and on his own behalf, sincere congratulations to President Putin and the friendly people of Russia on this historical day, underlining the high cost the Russian people paid to write down the legend of steadfastness that will inspire future generations.
He noted that Aleppo city, as well as other Syrian cities, has become like the heroic Stalingrad and gave a promise that “despite the brutality and cruelty of the enemy, and the great sacrifices and pains, our cities, towns, people and army will not be satisfied until they defeat the enemy and achieve victory serving the interests of Syria, the region and the world.”
Since March 2011, the United States and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been conducting a proxy war by supporting terrorists to topple the Syrian government.
Over 470,000 people have so far lost their lives in the Syrian conflict with almost two million injured and millions of others displaced.
