The Syrian government has reportedly agreed to the Arab League’s proposal for dealing with the massive levels of unrest and violent crackdowns in the nation, with claims that the deal would be announced in Cairo on Wednesday.
The Arab League confirmed the existence of such a plan yesterday and details have begun to emerge. The deal would have Syrian troops and particularly tanks withdrawing from the nation’s major protest cities, as well as the regime releasing all political prisoners captured since February.
In return for the concessions, the Arab League would promise to deploy “monitors” to the sites of future protests and would help organize talks with leaders of the pro-democracy opposition toward “serious reforms.”
Though President Bashar Assad has repeatedly promised reforms and has even announced them on occasion, in practice such measures have not been followed through on, or have been replaced with equally onerous policies. The Arab League has been split over how to tackle the protests, with traditional rivals seeking to expel Syria outright and other nations also tackling protest movements with violence, like Yemen, seeking to ignore the situation.
This will be first step towards normalisation and regime change.
And when the "protesters" show up with anti-tank rockets to blow them up, who are they going to blame? The regime? Arab League should clean its own yard first. Bahrain is sitting at these meetings? The regime that chrushed unarmed civilians, condemning 80% of population to apartheid status with no rights to meaningful employment, and facing long term jail sentence just for helping injured civilians with medical assistance in hospitals. The rulers there are so deranged, that they charged the medics, doctors and nurses that treated the civilians, including children — with STEALING state propery. For them, those Shiite population — the majority — are animals. And money spent on their care in hospitals not acceptable. These are OUR friends in Middle East. The armed thugs in Syria, just like the armed thugs in Libya — want power, money, loot and rape, wi th the help of US and its faithfull allies, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait. I have ZERO sympathy for ARMED groups that are taking advantage of civilian protests to GRAB power. These groups will boycott and disrupt any elections. Elections are NOT in their interest, as they have no political party, and not consituency supporting them.