Nobody, least of all the Syrian rebels, expected the latest attempt at an internationally-brokered ceasefire in Syria to hold, but a week in world leaders are touting the “real progress” that has been achieved and the UN is looking toward resuming peace talks.
The rebels, the first to complain about the ceasefire’s brokering, are also loudly condemning the ceasefire for holding, claiming that the success of the ceasefire is giving the Assad government a chance to mobilize forces against them.
They’re also criticizing the push for peace talks, with Riad Hijab insisting that the conditions are “not favorable” for peace talks right now. The rebels had similarly spurned the last UN effort to start peace talks, showing up in Geneva only to tell the UN they weren’t “officially” going to attend.
Before that last round of peace talks, the rebels made a ceasefire a precondition for attending, but now with the ceasefire firmly in place, it’s unclear how they’ll end up justifying spurning the talks.
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March 4th, 2016 – Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
Washington has a long history of massacring people, for example, the destruction of the Plains Indians by the Union war criminals Sherman and Sherridan and the atomic bombs dropped on Japanese civilian populations, but Washington has progressed from periodic massacres to full time massacring. American presidential hopefuls are competing on the basis of who will commit the worst war crimes.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/03/04/murder-is-washingtons-foreign-policy-paul-craig-roberts/
Trump claims he could make our military much stronger and at the same time spend much less .Trump has said If the Presidents had never did anything at all Iraq Libya , Syria would all be much better off . Trump says we should let Russia finish off ISIS and just stay out of all these wars . This would be much cheaper . Trump is purchasing his vote at 1 or 2 % of what his opposition is spending . Trump sounds like he has much the same battle plan old Ron Paul had
Again, can we find out who these rebels are on the ground. Their spokespeople outside od Syria are give the voice — but the actual group or groups on the ground remain anonymous. Thre are records about all groups — so why not name them to i surevthey are who the spokespeople say they are and that actually it is their opinion not the opinion of people that are unconnevted to ghe ground. What is the problem? How to link the “mouths” with the actual groups and their actual position on the ground including their actual history in the conflict. It is impossible to accept any information like this — just mirrors and smoke.
The spokesperson was Riad Harid Hijab, as mentioned in the article. Hijab served as “Prime Minister” under Bashar al-Assad in 2012 before he defected.
The 2011 Arab Spring protesters were brutally suppressed by the civil war and Assad’s barrel bombings. In the article, it mentioned that since the ceasefire began, there were once again peaceful protesters in the streets protesting against the Assad government.
Regular people are against the Assad government. This is confirmed by a survey of Syrian refugees in Germany:
Hijab also claimed that there were thousands in Assad’s prisons. Evidence confirms that this is the case. The Assad government detains those who oppose the regime or people are insufficiently loyal to it and some of them are tortured, beaten, raped or killed. Relatives of the dead detainees have identified them as everything from civilian activists, to journalists, to bloggers who blog against Assad. A teenager whose crime was having an anti-Assad song on his smartphone, was caught by a guard at a checkpoint and he was detained and was eventually tortured and killed. A woman was tortured and beaten up for having a voice recorder. There are 50,000 detainees at any one time and thousands have been killed. The Assad army executed captured soldiers and civilians.
Human Rights Watch’s report, If the Dead Could Speak,
has verified photographs smuggled from an Assad defector. Included were photographs of people who were dead from a facility; many were tortured, beaten and starved to death. The United Nations’ report, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, reported that there are tens of thousands of detainees at any one time and thousands have died. It reported torture, rape and starvation of detainees who allegedly oppose the Assad government or are insufficiently loyal to it. This includes children. Foreign fighters who are allied with the Assad government had massacred soldiers and civilians, including alleged beheadings.
Hijab also claimed that Assad had “blood on his hands”. This is true. Assad’s barrel bombs created casualties, 99% of the casualties are civilians and only 1% are combatants. That’s the civilian/combatant fatality ratio for barrel bombs. Of course the civilian/combatant fatality ratio different for other forms of combat. That’s why some statistics still show that most of the people killed are combatants instead of civilians.
Assad might also be bombing his peaceful opposition, calling them
“terrorists”. That might the reason why 99% of the casualties from his barrel bombs were civilians.
Videos of atrocities committed by the Assad government:
Assad troops dropped barrel bombs in the city, perhaps to target peaceful protesters:
Assad bombs a bus:
Assad bombs a bus (2):
Children murdered:
Bianca, I know you support dictators not just Assad but also Sisi, even though he has murdered thousands of people. So you would probably dismiss and deny this evidence as “propaganda”.
I don’t think you have Bianca figured right . I don’t think Bianca favors evil dictators . She just favors dictators that can keep the peace over evil Jihadists that will cut every ones head off that doesn’t bow down and do as they say .
Any dictator who murders the peaceful opposition is evil in my definition. Assad murdered the peaceful opposition through shooting protestors and killing detainees who are detained for not being sufficiently loyal to the regime. If you read her comments she favors Sisi even though he murdered the peaceful oppositions. And no, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood aren’t “head chopping jihadists”. Since the start of Morsi’s term both him and the Muslim Brotherhood affirmed that it won’t force women to wear the hijab and Morsi affirmed that Egyptian Christians have he same rights.
Sorry I don’t believe you are right about many forms of Sharia . Sharia is Muslim law either you follow Muslim law or you do not . True Morsi was elected with over 30 % of the Egyptian peoples vote . It might have been against the law to behead and crucify Christians . But the Muslim brotherhood did not prevent it . You see I don’t see any difference in Boko Harm , ISIS Al Nursa , Al Qaida . To me they are all extremist Muslims on Jihad . Organization that have grown out of the Muslim brotherhood . I refuse to give Muslims a free pass on admittance to my society because of their tendency to go on Jihad
Regarding “head chopping jihadists”:
The Syrian and Iraqi governments execute people too. This includes both soldiers and civilians. In Syria many journalists/bloggers/activists/protestors are killed. Why the double standard?
I think the Christians were wrong when they burnt people at the stake and killed homosexuals Just like the Muslims are wrong now . I know there are many forms of Jihad in sharia law . Sharia law is the law of Muslims always winning that means every body else loses . Why should I welcome and share my land with people that believe this is their duty to God ..
+Double talk ISIS must be fought by our Sunni allies like the Sunni rebels we have been arming and assisting for 5 yrs We haven’t learned yet our Sunni allies are in fact ISIS . Oh they keep changing their name from KLA , Muslim Brotherhood , ,El Nursa , Boka Harm or a 100 other names . They are still Muslims on Jihad . The failure to accept this fact is the reason we can’t win . The United States is not trying to win what the American people think is winning a peaceful settlement . The last few executive administrations of both political parties are trying to win a one world government with a one world religion.. The correct mode of action for that goal is somewhat different from the goal of making and maintaining a healthy prosperous United States of America
Mr. Riad Hijab defected to the opposition side with an ambition of becoming the President of Syria and don’t like to see his dreams go unfulfilled. So he want the present cessation of hostilities arrived between the warring groups fail and the fighting restart and believe that in such situation his sponsors Saudi Arabia and Turkey will be able to get his side a victory.
Don’t call them “the rebels”. Just say “the Saudi proxies”.
Seems all Muslim dictators kill their opposition . It also seems all Muslim opposition will kill their dictators to the first chance they get . Compromise does seem to be a strong trait in Islam . The most minor disagreement on religion easily carries the death penalty