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27 Dead as Violence Escalates in HomsPosted on Feb 8, 2012
Bashar al-Assad’s government rained more than 200 bombs on the opposition-controlled city of Homs on Wednesday, killing an unconfirmed 27 people and demolishing homes. The Russian and Chinese governments maintained their policy of nonintervention while leaders of Western and Arab nations scrambled to decide how, if at all, to get involved. On the question of intervention, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: “We of course condemn all violence regardless of its source, but one cannot act like an elephant in a china shop. Help them, advise them—limit, for instance, their ability to use weapons—but do not interfere under any circumstances.” China decried criticism of its vote against a failed U.N. resolution calling for the resignation of Assad—whose regime, according to the U.N., has killed an estimated 6,200 Syrian civilians as of Feb. 5 in an effort to suppress an uprising—as “extremely irresponsible” and “totally unacceptable.” —ARK
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By brewerstroupe, February 9, 2012 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment
Proper link:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/02/independent-
Report thisreport-shows-that-syrian-government-violence-has-been-
exaggerated.html
By zoskia, February 9, 2012 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
Three defectors described to Human Rights Watch incidents of summary executions and deaths from torture, involving 19 victims. Lieutenant-Colonel “Ghassan,” who served in the Presidential Guard, said that around August 7, he witnessed a summary execution of a detainee at a checkpoint in Douma:
I was stationed at a checkpoint in the Abdul Ra’uf neighborhood in Douma. My shift was supposed to be from 4 p.m. to midnight. I arrived at 3:45 p.m. and immediately heard screams and sounds of beatings from an abandoned building near the checkpoint. I went in, and it turned out that Colonel Mohamed Saker, who had the shift at the checkpoint before me, had arrested someone from the “wanted” list. I wanted to take over right away to stop it, and said it was my shift. But Saker said, “No, be patient, we’ll deal with him first.”
Seven soldiers were beating the man whom they had arrested. When I came, he was still alive. He was screaming, and the soldiers were swearing and laughing. It lasted for about five minutes longer, and then he died. He stopped moving, and I saw blood coming out of his mouth.
When I took over, I informed Khadur [commander of 106th brigade of the Presidential Guard, Brigadier General Mohamed Khadur] that we had a fatality. He ordered us to leave the checkpoint and the body behind. We went back to headquarters. Somebody must have picked up the body. People saw us coming out of that building.
Report thisBy heterochromatic, February 9, 2012 at 9:21 am Link to this comment
yeah, brew, that’s right. those nice Assad guys aren’t really blowing up
neighborhoods with tanks and stuff. those are actually very sturdily constructed
ice-cream trucks cruising around.
the Arab League Report didn’t say a damn thing about the situation being
Report thismischaracterized. that’s a load of shit.
By Howard, February 9, 2012 at 4:32 am Link to this comment
and , yes; AIPAC is responsible for the sun coming up in the east.
Report thisImagine those Syrian citizens wanting some basic human rights. The absolute nerve of those people.
By brewerstroupe, February 9, 2012 at 4:31 am Link to this comment
Independent Report Shows that Syrian Government
Report thisViolence Has Been Exaggerated
By heterochromatic, February 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm Link to this comment
If only the US and the west wasn’t so horrible, the happy-go-lucky Assad clan
wouldn’t be forced to kill all the Syrian citizens who think that they should have
human rights.
Report thisMostly I blame AIPAC….......not only for every death here but also for every
homosexual strangled to death by the Iranian government.