On this painful day, the Syrian Future Movement stands with hearts heavy with grief and reverence, remembering the victims of the Ghouta chemical massacre committed by the defunct Syrian regime on August 21, 2013. This is the day when the filth of tyrants polluted the skies of Syria, claiming the lives of more than 1,400 martyrs, including 890 children and women, suffocated by sarin and mustard gases in Zamalka, Jobar, Ain Tarma, and Moadamiya.
Innocent souls departed without blood or remains, but rather through the betrayal of humanity and the silence of the world.
The Syrian Future Movement wonders how a heart can bear the image of hundreds of children whose tiny breaths were cut short.
How can we forget the mothers who lost their sons and the fathers who buried their dreams under the rubble of injustice?
These martyrs are the “elders of this world,” and our tragedy, which claimed the lives of a million martyrs, is unprecedented in history. Yet some continue to exaggerate our wounds, as if the blood of our people is not enough to awaken the conscience of humanity.
The Syrian Future Movement calls on us not to forget the other chemical massacres that have contaminated Syrian soil: Khan al-Assal in the Aleppo countryside (March 19, 2013), Khan Sheikhoun in the Idlib countryside (April 4, 2017), and Douma in Eastern Ghouta (April 7, 2018). Every drop of blood, every breath suffocated, is a stain of shame on the brow of humanity, which failed to support our people that day.
We, in the Syrian Future Movement, renew our pledge to our martyrs that their blood will not be shed in vain. We call on the international community to hold the criminals accountable. We affirm our commitment to building a free Syria that preserves the dignity of its people and honors their sacrifices. We emphasize that the path to justice is long, but the will of our people is stronger than all tyrants, as we emphasized in our previous statement entitled “On the 11th Anniversary of the Chemical Massacre in Ghouta,” issued on August 21, 2024. We also recall with pain and awareness this crime that killed 1,144 Syrians by suffocation.
We, in the Syrian Future Movement, will continue to emphasize the need to commemorate the anniversary annually so that it remains vivid in the revolutionary memory, while pursuing war criminals to prevent the recurrence of such crimes and advance humanity’s transition toward justice and peace.
