Syria: Broken Nation
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#Syria - Foreign Shia militia groups take the place of the Sunni Syrian families displaced last week from #Daraya.
Cmdr of pro-Assad Iraqi Shia militia Liwa Imam Hussein in #Daraya after residents were forcibly evacuated by Assad
Displacement continues today to evacuate the rest of #Daraya people from #Moadamieh, #Syria. Thank u dear world!
What was going on in Daraya before the ethnic cleansing
Heartbroken to see them evacuating their town, but in awe, always, of the strength of #Daraya.
Cmdr of pro-Assad Iraqi Shia militia Liwa Imam Hussein in #Daraya after residents were forcibly evacuated by Assad
Displacement continues today to evacuate the rest of #Daraya people from #Moadamieh, #Syria. Thank u dear world!
What was going on in Daraya before the ethnic cleansing
Heartbroken to see them evacuating their town, but in awe, always, of the strength of #Daraya.
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Continued...
"It wasn't a negotiation or a conversation, it was a threat," Moadamiyeh-based media activist Dani Qappani told Al Jazeera. "They basicallly told us: 'Either surrender or we burn Moadamiyeh.'"....."A large portion of people don't want to leave their homes because they don't want the regime to forcefully change the demography of the area."
Abo Kanan al-Dimashqi, a member of the Moadamiyeh local council, told Al Jazeera he believes the government "clearly wants to do what it did in Daraya".
"They want to clear the area and put a different sect here. That's their plan - a demographic change."
Syria: Fear rises as Moadamiyeh evacuation begins
"In Madaya a meningitis epidemic had broken out, he said, describing the situation as “becoming unbearable”. He said he was heartbroken over Darayya. “The task force failed the people of Darayya. We all failed. I feel I failed them. It is really sad to think of what they went through over these years. A siege is not broken by giving up after bombing and starvation. It is lifted by humanitarian access and freedom of movement in and out by the civilian population. There is, at the moment, a militarisation of the conflict and we are being routinely blocked.”"
UN blames Syrian government siege strategy for expected mass evacuations
"It wasn't a negotiation or a conversation, it was a threat," Moadamiyeh-based media activist Dani Qappani told Al Jazeera. "They basicallly told us: 'Either surrender or we burn Moadamiyeh.'"....."A large portion of people don't want to leave their homes because they don't want the regime to forcefully change the demography of the area."
Abo Kanan al-Dimashqi, a member of the Moadamiyeh local council, told Al Jazeera he believes the government "clearly wants to do what it did in Daraya".
"They want to clear the area and put a different sect here. That's their plan - a demographic change."
Syria: Fear rises as Moadamiyeh evacuation begins
"In Madaya a meningitis epidemic had broken out, he said, describing the situation as “becoming unbearable”. He said he was heartbroken over Darayya. “The task force failed the people of Darayya. We all failed. I feel I failed them. It is really sad to think of what they went through over these years. A siege is not broken by giving up after bombing and starvation. It is lifted by humanitarian access and freedom of movement in and out by the civilian population. There is, at the moment, a militarisation of the conflict and we are being routinely blocked.”"
UN blames Syrian government siege strategy for expected mass evacuations
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"Daraya's courageous social and political activism stretches back long before the eruption of the revolution in 2011. Its residents protested against Israeli oppression in Palestine during the Second Intifada, and then against the US invasion of Iraq. Those who believe that Assad's regime represents popular anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism won't realise how brave these actions were. Independent demonstrations were completely illegal in Syria, punishable by torture and imprisonment, even if the protests were directed against the state's supposed enemies. And Daraya's activism focused on domestic issues too, in the form of local anti-corruption and neighbourhood beautification campaigns..."
"...Razan Zeitouneh, a key revolutionary leader and a founder of the Local Coordination Committees, described the town thus: "Daraya was a star before the revolution and a star during. What the young men and women of the city built took immense efforts and resulted in a small exemplary model for the future of Syria, the one we dream of. The activism in the city never seized to amaze us for a minute. It was in Daraya where the peaceful protestors first carried roses and water to the soldiers of the Syrian army that persisted in killing them… In Daraya, the signs calling for co-existence continued to be held high even when the entire country was falling into despair following every new massacre."
The Tragedy of Daraya
(also includes a tidbit about Robert Fisk's irresponsible and false propaganda piece for the regime)
"Daraya's courageous social and political activism stretches back long before the eruption of the revolution in 2011. Its residents protested against Israeli oppression in Palestine during the Second Intifada, and then against the US invasion of Iraq. Those who believe that Assad's regime represents popular anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism won't realise how brave these actions were. Independent demonstrations were completely illegal in Syria, punishable by torture and imprisonment, even if the protests were directed against the state's supposed enemies. And Daraya's activism focused on domestic issues too, in the form of local anti-corruption and neighbourhood beautification campaigns..."
"...Razan Zeitouneh, a key revolutionary leader and a founder of the Local Coordination Committees, described the town thus: "Daraya was a star before the revolution and a star during. What the young men and women of the city built took immense efforts and resulted in a small exemplary model for the future of Syria, the one we dream of. The activism in the city never seized to amaze us for a minute. It was in Daraya where the peaceful protestors first carried roses and water to the soldiers of the Syrian army that persisted in killing them… In Daraya, the signs calling for co-existence continued to be held high even when the entire country was falling into despair following every new massacre."
The Tragedy of Daraya
(also includes a tidbit about Robert Fisk's irresponsible and false propaganda piece for the regime)
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"Relatives said townspeople felt abandoned by the world, despondent to be leaving their homes and deeply fearful as they proceeded to an unknown fate.
....“You know the situation is bad when you hope that it is just ethnic cleansing, and that the population will be safely moved elsewhere instead of killed, arrested, and abused, as we have seen in past forcible surrender situations,” Szybala told The Daily Beast.
....The Syria Institute’s Szybala was withering in her criticism of the supranational body. “The UN took no action to protect civilians from this fallout,” she said. “Their efforts began and ended with that insufficient aid convoy in June. This is the epitome of negligence.”
....“We have been under siege for four years,” said Ayash, the local activist. “We depend on the food we plant ourselves. All the people in Daraya can live on one meal a day. But in the last three months, all the crops were destroyed, and the regime captured our farming area,” he said."
Syria’s Srebrenica?
Over the last four years, the international community has not only abandoned Daraya to starvation and siege, it has also failed to extend it the courtesy of fair coverage. But for those who still believe in the principles that sparked the Syrian uprising, hope for a brighter future remains. If after years of unmitigated suffering the residents of Daraya did not give up, then we have absolutely no excuse to give up on them now. The least we can do is combat the prejudices leveled against them, and we should do so whenever we reasonably can.
Daraya is gone, but not lost forever.
Daraya has fallen to the Assad regime, but it is not lost forever
Thank you Daraya
Opposition leader from #Darayya: "We preferred to stay in #Darayya, but Regime refused to evacuate civilians only".
#Darayya fighters arrived to Qal'at al-Madiq in NW-#Hama, saying they will fight to get back to their city.
Fighters of #Daraya now united with Muheisni who promises that N & S of #Syria will meet at Ummayyed mosque in Dam
"Relatives said townspeople felt abandoned by the world, despondent to be leaving their homes and deeply fearful as they proceeded to an unknown fate.
....“You know the situation is bad when you hope that it is just ethnic cleansing, and that the population will be safely moved elsewhere instead of killed, arrested, and abused, as we have seen in past forcible surrender situations,” Szybala told The Daily Beast.
....The Syria Institute’s Szybala was withering in her criticism of the supranational body. “The UN took no action to protect civilians from this fallout,” she said. “Their efforts began and ended with that insufficient aid convoy in June. This is the epitome of negligence.”
....“We have been under siege for four years,” said Ayash, the local activist. “We depend on the food we plant ourselves. All the people in Daraya can live on one meal a day. But in the last three months, all the crops were destroyed, and the regime captured our farming area,” he said."
Syria’s Srebrenica?
Over the last four years, the international community has not only abandoned Daraya to starvation and siege, it has also failed to extend it the courtesy of fair coverage. But for those who still believe in the principles that sparked the Syrian uprising, hope for a brighter future remains. If after years of unmitigated suffering the residents of Daraya did not give up, then we have absolutely no excuse to give up on them now. The least we can do is combat the prejudices leveled against them, and we should do so whenever we reasonably can.
Daraya is gone, but not lost forever.
Daraya has fallen to the Assad regime, but it is not lost forever
Thank you Daraya
Opposition leader from #Darayya: "We preferred to stay in #Darayya, but Regime refused to evacuate civilians only".
#Darayya fighters arrived to Qal'at al-Madiq in NW-#Hama, saying they will fight to get back to their city.
Fighters of #Daraya now united with Muheisni who promises that N & S of #Syria will meet at Ummayyed mosque in Dam
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I made another post today if you just look at the newest one.
.@mikebarnicle: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo? @GovGaryJohnson: And what is Aleppo?
1. Johnson doesn't know what Aleppo is
2. NYT confuses Aleppo w/ Raqqa
3. NYT corrects, confusing Aleppo w/ Damascus
Gary Johnson's "What is Aleppo?" moment currently getting more coverage in US media than actual events in Aleppo ever do. #WhatIsAleppo
What is Aleppo? 50 photos documenting the conflict in the Syrian city over the past 5 years http://reut.rs/2clvGzd
Dear @GovGaryJohnson you asked "What is Aleppo ?" WATCH here; this is #Aleppo as far as we can show it
His response and others' responses (like NYT's correction of his mistake which in turn was a mistake) perfectly encapsulate the public's interest in the genocide being conducted by the Assad regime and his allies against the Sunni population of Syria.
.@mikebarnicle: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo? @GovGaryJohnson: And what is Aleppo?
1. Johnson doesn't know what Aleppo is
2. NYT confuses Aleppo w/ Raqqa
3. NYT corrects, confusing Aleppo w/ Damascus
Gary Johnson's "What is Aleppo?" moment currently getting more coverage in US media than actual events in Aleppo ever do. #WhatIsAleppo
What is Aleppo? 50 photos documenting the conflict in the Syrian city over the past 5 years http://reut.rs/2clvGzd
Dear @GovGaryJohnson you asked "What is Aleppo ?" WATCH here; this is #Aleppo as far as we can show it
His response and others' responses (like NYT's correction of his mistake which in turn was a mistake) perfectly encapsulate the public's interest in the genocide being conducted by the Assad regime and his allies against the Sunni population of Syria.
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Posting post about the US being accused of bombing a rebel meeting (which was gathered to make a plan to break Assad's siege on a Sunni city of about 300k), which killed a senior rebel leader:
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Why the UN is harmful to the people who are being killed in a genocide (i.e. the Sunnis that the Assad regime and allies are targeting):
"The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of an aid programme that critics fear is increasingly at the whim of the government in Damascus, a Guardian investigation has found."
UN pays tens of millions to Assad regime under Syria aid programme
"By poring over thousands of pages of documents, and speaking to UN insiders and aid workers, the Guardian has identified dozens of deals that will raise new questions about the UN’s role in Syria, and its impartiality."
How Assad regime controls UN aid intended for Syria's children
"The revelation is as perverse as it is unsurprising, and points to the moral bankruptcy of the UN’s $4bn (£3bn) Syria aid effort to date. It is perverse that UN agencies, which are mandated to reach out to the most vulnerable in Syria’s vicious and protracted civil war, are throwing a lifeline to a regime that has no qualms about burning the entire country just to stay in power."
UN's $4bn aid effort in Syria is morally bankrupt
.@UNOCHA still offers no real response to exposé of its complicity w/ Assad killing machine. http://bit.ly/2cfgpgE
"The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, as part of an aid programme that critics fear is increasingly at the whim of the government in Damascus, a Guardian investigation has found."
UN pays tens of millions to Assad regime under Syria aid programme
"By poring over thousands of pages of documents, and speaking to UN insiders and aid workers, the Guardian has identified dozens of deals that will raise new questions about the UN’s role in Syria, and its impartiality."
How Assad regime controls UN aid intended for Syria's children
"The revelation is as perverse as it is unsurprising, and points to the moral bankruptcy of the UN’s $4bn (£3bn) Syria aid effort to date. It is perverse that UN agencies, which are mandated to reach out to the most vulnerable in Syria’s vicious and protracted civil war, are throwing a lifeline to a regime that has no qualms about burning the entire country just to stay in power."
UN's $4bn aid effort in Syria is morally bankrupt
.@UNOCHA still offers no real response to exposé of its complicity w/ Assad killing machine. http://bit.ly/2cfgpgE
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In a letter to the UN (pdf), the 73 groups made clear they could no longer tolerate the “manipulation of humanitarian relief efforts by the political interests of the Syrian government that deprives other Syrians in besieged areas from the services of those programmes”.
Aid groups suspend cooperation with UN in Syria because of Assad 'influence'
Aid groups suspend cooperation with UN in Syria because of Assad 'influence'
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A child that's lived her entire life under bombardment has no idea what justice is.
"Johnson “is just a person, so it’s normal for me not to know his name. But Aleppo is a city at war, and for a politician not to know the name of this city, it is very shocking to me,” said Abdulkafi al-Hamdo, a teacher in Aleppo.
....Johnson’s comments have come as a reminder that most people aren’t paying attention to Syria or its suffering, said Aref al-Aref, another activist in the city.
“Unless you are living on Mars there is no excuse not to know about what is going on in Aleppo,” he said. “But I guess Aleppo doesn’t know who Gary Johnson is either, so we're even.”"
Hey, Gary Johnson, people in Aleppo don’t know who you are
He went on The View about his gaffe and he made some MORE mistakes (which he wasn't called out on by the hosts which to me is even more proof of how ignorant Americans are about the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world). This mistake is that he said the FSA are allied with ISIS. Seriously, how stupid can you be to make that comment after asking what Aleppo is the day before?
"Johnson “is just a person, so it’s normal for me not to know his name. But Aleppo is a city at war, and for a politician not to know the name of this city, it is very shocking to me,” said Abdulkafi al-Hamdo, a teacher in Aleppo.
....Johnson’s comments have come as a reminder that most people aren’t paying attention to Syria or its suffering, said Aref al-Aref, another activist in the city.
“Unless you are living on Mars there is no excuse not to know about what is going on in Aleppo,” he said. “But I guess Aleppo doesn’t know who Gary Johnson is either, so we're even.”"
Hey, Gary Johnson, people in Aleppo don’t know who you are
He went on The View about his gaffe and he made some MORE mistakes (which he wasn't called out on by the hosts which to me is even more proof of how ignorant Americans are about the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world). This mistake is that he said the FSA are allied with ISIS. Seriously, how stupid can you be to make that comment after asking what Aleppo is the day before?
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A child in #Aleppo is crying for his little sister after #Putin_Assad air strikes. 22-08-2016 #Syria
Distraught children after today's reported airstrikes in #Aleppo... Asking about their injured dad #Syria
Distraught children after today's reported airstrikes in #Aleppo... Asking about their injured dad #Syria
Two young boys grieve after losing their brother In a barrel bomb attack by Assad in #Aleppo. #Childhood in #Syria
Without the music (above video has much of the translation): "Oh the heartache. Oh brother. Oh my brother is gone."
This targeting of the funeral in east Aleppo today, 8/27, has killed at least 25. Source.
The status of the boys is unknown. I'm dumbfounded anyone with a shred of decency can support Assad after looking at this video or the countless other footage of his atrocities.
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Residents of besieged Aleppo protesting/refusing UN aid
“People are hungry but the people aren’t so desperate for aid that they trade their basic rights for it."....
“We won’t trade our right not to be bombed and starved for a bag of UN rice and some cooking oil! Bring us a fair ceasefire!”.....
“The world stood by, and continues to stand by, and watch the siege of Gaza continue year after year, depriving average people of their basic rights to food, clean water, and self determination. Why should we assume the world won’t do the same to Aleppo? Any ceasefire agreement that keeps the siege in place we will never sign.”
“People are hungry but the people aren’t so desperate for aid that they trade their basic rights for it."....
“We won’t trade our right not to be bombed and starved for a bag of UN rice and some cooking oil! Bring us a fair ceasefire!”.....
“The world stood by, and continues to stand by, and watch the siege of Gaza continue year after year, depriving average people of their basic rights to food, clean water, and self determination. Why should we assume the world won’t do the same to Aleppo? Any ceasefire agreement that keeps the siege in place we will never sign.”
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DogmaHunter
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Perhaps you should try a thread with an actual topic that can be discussed, instead of post after post after post of copy-pastes of twitter and blogs.
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It seems to me that currently, the biggest problem in Syria is a whole bunch of militia's, all who practice a radical version of Islam, all of which hate eachother for following the "wrong kind" of islam, and all of which are using Syria as a battle ground for their brutal sectarian and religious violence.
At this point, removing Assad is only going to this even worse.
I see no end for this conflict any time soon. WAAAAAAY to many parties involved, and almost all of them seem to be in a competition of who can be the most barbarian, brutal, fundamentalist evil killers.
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It's a majority Sunni country that has a minority Alawite dictatorship. Sunnis are either being killed off in a genocide or being ethnically cleansed in other places.
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Most of the casualties come at the hands of Assad's regime which has been the most barbaric, brutal, and fundamentalist evil killers along with its backers.
Remove his regime and those fighting to keep him there, including the rabidly sectarian militias, and you remove the cause of the most destruction.
I don't see how arguing for him to stay is logical in any way. As logical as arguing for ISIS to stay or Hitler to have stayed.
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So you would be more happy if the UN did in Syria what they did in Libya and destroy the palace? Then what do you think would happen after that?
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