Showing posts with label Assad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Assad. Show all posts

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Doublespeak

We live in a world full of hypocrisy, not least shown in British politics.

My MP was amongst those who rejected to accept 3,000 unaccompanied children to the UK, back in 2016. Yet, he belongs to a party who's leader stated that we striked Syria recently on humanitarian grounds. So in essence we have the money to bomb a country on humanitarian grounds yet no money to help the very same civilians who require safety from chemical weapons, bombs, bullets and torture.

We also have an opposition leader who was formerly part of the Stop the War Coalition and advocating for no British involvement (and in extension no Western involvement) in Syria militarily yet we hear no words of condemnation of Russian and Iranian terrorism in Syria despite the continuous Russian vetoes at the UN security council. It's ironic how Stop the War activists complain about British and American imperialism but not one word in protest of Russian and Iranian imperialism in Syria. One Russian ambassador stated that "the Syrian people support Russian involvement". Anyone care to find a Syrian that welcomes Russian fighter jets dropping bombs on schools, hospitals and residential areas? (Scrap that, I can imagine all the pro-Assadists being gleeful about bombing "terrorists".)

It would be great to see the opposition leader give alternative solutions to military intervention if that's what he so passionately believes in and change the debate from "let's not intervene militarily" and doing nothing else to paving the way for real change in how British foreign policy deals with the Middle East so that as a country we can intervene in a way he believes is humanely possible. But all we have is an opposition leader who gives talk of diplomacy but when it comes down to it, doesn't walk the walk and a government who bombs and strikes a country on humanitarian grounds as a result of chemical weapon use but doesn't extend the courtesy of helping the very same people who require safety from the very same chemical weapons use we are supposedly making a stand against as well as bombs, bullets and torture. But we also have a government who finds it perfectly acceptable that the Syrian government and its allies use barrel bombs, bullets and torture on Syrians, just as long as it ain't chemical weapons. Go figure.
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Updates from Aleppo




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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Evidence of torture and execution of Syrians (GRAPHIC IMAGES!)

Three lawyers (Sir Desmond de Silva QC , Professor David M. Crane & Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC), wrote a report into the credibility of certain evidence in regards to torture and execution of citizens incarcerated by the Syrian regime.  Both the Guardian and CNN wrote articles publishing the report alongside key findings and images.

The following images are from the report which were leaked by a source named "Caesar" who worked in the military police in Syria for 13 years before defecting. The images were taken either by himself or his colleagues in his unit.










"Each body in the photographs seen by CNN had a number written on it; a person's hand can often also be seen holding a piece of paper in the frame of the photograph with the same number written on it."
The following text taken from the report details the process and the reasoning behind the photographs:
The procedure was that when detainees were killed at their places of detention their bodies would be taken to a military hospital to which he would be sent with a doctor and a member of the judiciary, “Caesar’s” function being to photograph the corpses. He informed the inquiry team that there could be as many as fifty (50) bodies a day to photograph which required fifteen to thirty minutes of work per corpse. The purpose of documenting the corpses was to ensure that none had been released by the security services and to inform the families of murdered detainees in due course that the cause of death in each case was either a “heart attack” or “breathing problems” and to satisfy the authorities that executions had been performed. Each murdered detainee was given two numbers with only the intelligence service knowing the identities of the corpses. The procedure for documentation was that when a detainee was killed each body was given a reference number which related to that branch of the security service responsible for his detention and death. When the corpse was taken to the military hospital it was given a further number so as to document, falsely, that death had occurred in the hospital. Once the bodies were photographed they were taken for burial in a rural area.

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Thursday, August 09, 2012

Kafranbal's wit continues...


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Monday, January 02, 2012

We call for freedom





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Saturday, August 06, 2011

The killing of a dream

The following video takes a look into the Bahrani uprising that is still on-going. I urge at least all Syrians to watch, to see the similarities between the two uprisings: the injustice, the propaganda, the military intervention and occupation, chaos caused by intervention, casualties, death, mass arrests as well as the pain and anguish of protesters.


My heart goes out to every Bahrani. I can now truly understand their pain and suffering. I wish that one day their dreams will come true and their demands are met Inshallah. I hope those opposing the Syrian Uprising watches and learns from Arab uprisings across the region.

How does Assad differ from Mubarak? Or Gaddafi? Or Al Khalifa, the King or Crown Prince of Bahrain? Syrians who called for the fall of Mubarak and Gaddafi and now oppose the Syrian Uprising, how can you even justify your support for Assad and Ba'ath party now? 
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