Hussam Muhammed, Baladi News, Damascus
Syrian regime's government declared on Thursday morning reducing the amounts of bread and flour used by bakeries in areas under its control following confirmations and reports from local and external sources reporting that the Syrian president has handed over Syria Reserves of foreign exchange and gold to Moscow as rewards for its military intervention in the country and a price for remaining in power.
The Syrian Ministry of Internal Trade announced the reduction of bakeries' allocations of flour, the main ingredient of making bread, without mentioning the reasons behind such decisions, especially with the rise in the dollar's exchange rate against the local currency for more than 620 SYP per dollar.
The decision of preventing the Syrians from the daily bread within the regime-held areas came after the World Bank announced on 20th of last April the collapse of the foreign currency reserves of the Syrian central bank as it declined from 20 billion dollars before the revolution to reach 700 million dollars.
The ministry went further by declaring in an official statement on Thursday canceling the licenses for a number of bread-selling kiosks in Damascus, Aleppo and other areas without justifying the reasons behind such actions.
Regime's supporters received the decision with anger, cursing and accusing the Syrian government presided by Wael Al-Halaki of corruption and complicity with the Russian and the West to implement their agendas in the country with no heed to civilians' interests living in the regime-held areas, and some of them even demanded the Syrian government to submit to the international community and abide by its resolutions in order to prevent the Syrians from eating each other (as some reviewers described).