This biggest news this weekend has been out of the village of Tremseh, in Hama Province, where claims of a massacre by the regime and “pro-govt militias” has been solidly discredited, with the death toll dramatically lower than what was claimed and all but a handful of the dead combatants.
Which ruins the story of war enthusiasts, who within moments were calling the deaths a “massacre” and were citing it as proof of the need for an immediate regime change, installing the rebels in place of the regime.
Or at least you’d think so, but despite the massacre having been discredited, stories of a “terrible bloodbath” continue to be pumped out, as do calls for using Tremseh as a justification for intervention.
The news that the “massacre” didn’t happen appears to have been entirely lost on Turkish Prime Minister Reccep Tayyip Erdogan, who is still railing on about it and calling it “genocide” and vowing to see Assad “pay” for it.
Genocide? Boy oh boy. Inflation seems to have taken a bite out of the business of mass killing. One era it's millions and the next it's been discounted down to a hundred or so.
When will the Turkish people wake up to the fact that Erdogan has shown his hand as being just another western stooge?
If Erdogan says it's a genocide, then it surely is one, as he knows what his talking about. After all, he leads the country that wrote the handbook about organizing and perpetrating genocides: Armenians, Assyrians, Pontian Greeks, Kurds, Alewis… Turkey has the utmost expertise on the subject.
"Turkey has the utmost expertise on the subject." Nah, Israel holds that honor.
No-one in the Western World can consider itself clean in that respect either.
Excuse me while a trip over a mass grave.
The problem is that west (lead by US) wants this regime change badly. This will create another massacres and genocidas all blamed on Syrian government. I am sure next massacre is just around the corner. Since perpetrators are paid and armed by "friends of Syria" they must understand there is a need for one big and done by enough sofistication that they are not caught with their pants down. This way these self-proclaimed "friends of Syria" look more than enemies of Syria. Because with friends like these who needs enemies. Terrorists will probably even kill their own Sunni Syrians, so nobody can claim it was them. They are after all going for schooling to Bosnia and Kosovo to learn from the masters of this art.
Erdogan's little donkey ass is burning because of the last kick he received, so he is doing this out of spite