BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 13 - 08:22 PM

There appears no reason to think that a victory by the opposition would not lead to an oppressive and bloodthirsty regime very bit as bad as the Assad regime. Different people would get persecuted and slaughtered, in revenge directed at minority communities who had backed.

This is increasingly, it appears,a conflict between those carrying out atrocities fuelled by fear and those carrying them out fuelled by fanaticism.

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 13 - 10:22 PM

There appears no reason to think that a victory by the opposition would not lead to an oppressive and bloodthirsty regime every bit as bad as the Assad regime. Different people would get persecuted and slaughtered, especially in revenge directed at minority communities who had backed Assad.

This is increasingly, it appears,a conflict between those carrying out atrocities fuelled by fear and those carrying them out fuelled by fanaticism.

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 04:13 AM

I agree again McG.

Meanwhile,
Thousands of children have been killed in unrest in Syria since March 2011, according to a new UN report on children and armed conflict.

... children in Syria were suffering "maybe the heaviest toll" in the world, said UN special representative Leila Zerrougui, who presented the findings.

"They are killed, they are maimed, they are recruited, they are detained, they are tortured", she told journalists in New York.

The report accused Syrian troops of torturing children suspected of having links to rebel groups.

But it said armed opposition groups, including the Free Syrian Army, were also using children, both in combat and in support roles such as transporting supplies and loading cartridges.

More than 80,000 people are thought to have died in the Syrian conflict, and some two million children are in need of assistance, according to official estimates.

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 07:51 AM

About 93,000 dead now. Notice the silence......

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 09:05 AM

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/12/it-s-about-time-united-nations-plans-refugee-camps-for-syrians-in-lebanon.html?

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 10:51 PM

From April, 23, 2013.


It was Zionist propaganda when Israel said it.

Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 16 Jun 13 - 08:18 AM

Robert Fisk writes today,
The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran – even before last week's presidential election – to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.