The aftermath of nearly a month-long fight over the Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs continues to unfold today, as the Red Cross says it has delivered large amounts of aid to the village of Abel, where a number of refugees from the fighting have taken up temporary residence.
The Red Cross did, however, say that they were prevented from taking aid into Baba Amro again. There was no explanation given as to the delay, but the spokesman of their Damascus office said that they expect to “try again tomorrow.”
Not all those who fled the civil war went to Abel. The United Nations refugee agency reports that up to 2,000 Syrians have fled into Lebanon, many of them from the rebel held town of Qusar.
Violence appears to have ebbed somewhat over the past few days, with the rebels announcing that they are in the midst of a severe ammunition shortage. The only site of major fighting in the past few days has been Daraa Province, along the Jordanian border.
BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia said Sunday that Syrians have a right to take up arms to defend themselves against the regime and accused the Damascus government of “imposing itself by force,” as concerns mounted over a humanitarian crisis there.
In a rare televised news conference, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said the kingdom welcomed international efforts to broker a ceasefire in Syria but added that they have “failed to stop the massacres.”
“Is there something greater than the right to defend oneself and to defend human rights,” he said, adding that the Syrian people want to defend themselves. “The regime is not wanted by the people,” he said.
Look who is talking, The Saudis regime is one of the most brutal and one of the most antihuman rights there is forcing itself on millions of people and giving itself all the rights to be a government, a justice system, a police and last but not least a judge and acting as the superior court as well. Saudis Kingdome family spending millions of their people’s money investing for privet profit while their people go hungry, they are involved in wars accusing others of atrocities, producing terrorism around the world acting as they were the only one who cares about human rights. This is simply absurd using these words by one of the most dictatorial – brutal and inhuman regime on the planet whom would cut a mans hand for stealing a loaf of bread because he is hungry, beheading people for the reasons that the regime itself imposes and judges and execute yet wanting to change the Syrian government not knowing anything about Syrian and above all the unity of the Syria people, that majority of the Syrian people are supporting what they have, at least the Syrian regime changed its constitution and give the right to people to decide their feature, question is: when was the last time that Saudis or UAE did such major change insuring peoples rights, when was the last time that Saudis and UAE did talk about the right of their people, their right in terms of social politics and social justice.
All that talks about human rights are when US and EU with their servant in Middle East and their lost in creating the Syrian war hoping for Syrian peoples support is failed and failing, they calculate their plan wrong because they are wrong, because their politics is not based on democracy and the fact that they don’t respect democracy nor its principals to begin with. Now all that talk about human rights is simply a loud words admitting to the fact that the plan in implementing a feudalist regime in Syria has failed. So they need to have said something and saying through this man Saudis Foreign ministers, what ministers, he is part of the Saudis Kingdome family talking for the Kingdome family. There is no such ministry in Saudi Arabia; all that there is is a feudalism system having lots of money to spend for all the wrong reasons, one of these “Ministries” is their investment in dividing people in the region implementing yet another feudalistic regime with their illegitimate sons of Muslims brotherhood. Blame game starts when you lose, blame game starts when the truth of the matter is exposed.
The Syrian government’s limiting outside access to the rebel section of Homs is nothing new. The Israeli-Maronite assault on the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in 1982 also restricted public scrutiny. As did Israel in the Second Intifada of 2000 or the Gaza invasion of 2008 or every time Turkey sends its forces into Kurdish areas or etc. The killing of civilians is also not new–we do it daily in Afghanistan and Pakistan as we did in Iraq not that long ago. The real crux is not the regime’s behavior, but that Bashar al-Asad is not our boy in Damascus. The narrative of the plight of Syria without all reference to outside interference is a ploy to involve us in another Mideast war for “democracy.” With recent revelations of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the September 11th terror attacks, maybe we should consider changing sides. But then again Syria has so little oil and Saudi and friends have so much.