[Centraal]Crisis in Syri� #110 Syria is gone!!!!!!!!!

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 18:17 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 18:30 schreef IPA35 het volgende:
Zo vaak niet eens met hem...

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 18:36 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 18:47 schreef IPA35 het volgende:
Ik ben er eigenlijk nog niet achter wat de ideologie van Veldkamp is.

Hij lijkt mij een rechtlijnige conservatief met een flinke dosis maatschappijkritiek soms .
Maar soms ook weer niet...

Hmmmm...

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 19:19 schreef Djibril het volgende:

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Thank Apollo for the beer

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 20:06 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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ah okay, dat idee had ik al, heb nauwelijks kennis over de syrische pre opstand periode mbt de koerden

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Head of Afrin Canton: ‘We Exist and We Are Here’
By MUTLU CIVIROGLU 2/2/2014

Hevi Ibrahim, named prime minister of the Kurdish Afrin Canton declared by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) last week, says that women are “leading the revolution” in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and elsewhere. “We exist and we are here,” she says about the administrations also declared by the PYD last month in Cizire and Kobani. In this interview with Rudaw, she says that the declaration of the self-rule administrations was a response to the Geneva II conference, to which the PYD was not invited. Below is an edited transcript of her comments:

Rudaw: You declared the autonomous Afrin Canton on Wednesday. What are your feelings and thoughts about this? What does this declaration mean?

Hevi Ibrahim: We hope to fulfill our people’s expectations, their demands. We will try to do our duty to our people and their needs in the following days. This administration has been put together by the people of this region and their free will. We have already been governing the Ciyaye Kurmenc (Kurdish Mountain) region and Afrin area. However, international powers have not realized this yet. The declaration of this administration was a great answer to them. We exist and we are here. This self-rule administration has been the best response to Geneva II. Since they did not invite us there, we will not recognize any decision that will be made by them.

Rudaw: As a woman, how is it to be the head of an administration in a region like the Middle East?

Hevi Ibrahim: It might be an interesting situation for the Middle East, but it is not for the Kurds. We have many Kurdish women who have led their communities in the past. There are many examples before me. I just follow their path. Especially in Afrin, and throughout the Rojava Region, women are leading the revolution.

Rudaw: In addition to being a woman, you are also an Alevi Kurd, which is another oppressed identity.

Hevi Ibrahim: Yes, that is correct. The place that I was born, Mabada, is a Kurdish-Alevi town. The Alevi struggle is very old, since they have been suppressed for many years. Alevis have had the idea of freedom and democracy for a very long time. I’m sure this suppressed Alevi identity has an impact on me and where I am today. However, my Kurdish identity is the main identity and we do not act differently towards any nations or beliefs.

Rudaw: Are other ethnic and religious elements involved in your government?

Hevi Ibrahim: Absolutely! There are Yezidis and Kurdish-Alevis. Two Arab tribes are involved in the cabinet. For instance, one of my assistants, Mustafa Abdulhamid, is an Arab and the minister of international relations, Suleiman Jafer, is a Yezidi Kurd.

Rudaw: You are talking about a multi-cultured structure of the society and the administration. You also talked about how the big powers did not want to take you all into consideration. What do you think the reason is for that?

Hevi Ibrahim: The interests of some powers conflict with what Kurds stand for. They think that if Kurds gain their freedom it will bring many changes and they are worried about this. In other words, Kurdish freedom is against their interest.

Rudaw: What do you plan on doing to gain the support of the international community and world public opinion?

Hevi Ibrahim: Right now we are celebrating the newly declared self-rule administration with our people. We will definitely decide on how we will build relationships with them. Also, we will certainly build relationships with non-governmental and governmental organizations as well.

Rudaw: We know that Afrin has been under an embargo for a long time. What’s the current situation like?

Hevi Ibrahim: True! The Kurdish Mountain Region has been under an embargo for months now. However, the effort and the struggle of our people are great. Our people share everything, happiness, sadness, whatever they own, with each other and they’re just trying to have a decent lifestyle. That’s why they’re resisting against the existing blockade. We are hoping that this embargo will end soon.

Rudaw: The active role of women in Rojava has received the attention of many American and European journalists. As a woman, do you have a message for Kurdish and all the other women in the world?

Hevi Ibrahim: I want all women, particularly Kurdish women, to be successful. And I can state that Kurdish women will lead all the other women in the world. We want the women of Rojava to participate in self-rule in the administrative level. We want them to work more, because women have always been ignored in the past. Women in Rojava have led the revolution. For this very reason, they need to take their very well deserved posts in the administrations. I would like to get the attention of all the Kurds’ and democratic institutions via the media. They should support and help us build this administration strongly. Both humanitarian and any other type of help is needed in order to maintain, protect, our newly established self-rule administration.
- See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/interview/02022014#sthash.4hbe5wZZ.dpuf

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 20:31 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:

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Het is dat ik IPA ken, anders had ik je bijna geloofd.

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 20:46 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Praat niet zo links joh .

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Op maandag 3 februari 2014 22:06 schreef Aloulou het volgende:

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Al qaida vindt ISIS te extreem

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Op dinsdag 4 februari 2014 13:45 schreef Veldkamp het volgende:

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Je speculeert maar.

Alles beter dan een radicaal-islamistische terroristenvriend en takfiri-sympathisant die ook nog terloops even de heldhaftige strijd van Koerdische moderne strijdgroepen tegen buitenlandse takfiri-jihadisten verraadt, door constant islamisme te prediken.

Ondertussen wel lekker op de uitkeringen en sociale voorzieningen - aangelegd door diezelfde "extreemrechtse" Nederlander en "katholieke fundamentalist" en zijn hardwerkende voorouders....

Ik heb enorm veel respect voor eerlijke, rechtvaardige mensen die hun eigen stamlanden willen verbeteren. Ook voor de Koerden, ook al wonen zij al bijna 100 jaar of enkele eeuwen op voorheen ferm Armeense of Assyrische cultuurgebieden - etnisch gezuiverd door genocides, stammenstrijd, massamoorden door afgunst en islamisme.

Ik heb inderdaad geen respect voor parasieten, terroristen, takfiri's en speculanten en oorlogsprofiteurs.

Als dat mij "extreem-rechts" maakt in jouw ogen, zo zij het.

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Russia says Syria to ship chemical arms as civilians flee barrel bombs

Russia says Syria to ship chemical arms as civilians flee barrel bombs

4 February 2014 /REUTERS, MOSCOW, DAMASCUS, BEIRUT
Russia said its ally Syria would soon ship more chemical weapons abroad for destruction after being accused of dragging its feet, while activists said civilians in Aleppo were fleeing deadly barrel bomb raids by President Bashar al-Assad's air force.
Moscow also said on Tuesday that the Syrian government would show up at a new round of peace talks next week, in a bid to allay Western concerns over Assad's commitment to negotiations which ended inconclusively in Geneva last week.

The diplomatic assurances come as government forces escalate their assault on Syria's second city of Aleppo, using a near daily barrage of barrel bombs that some activists say is forcing residents to flee and slowly gaining ground for the president against opposition forces weakened by weeks of infighting.

While the fall of Aleppo is not seen as imminent, Assad is keen to control it, together with the capital Damascus and his heartland along the coast. But the rest of the country remains fragmented between the opposition, Kurds and other armed groups.

Western analysts say Assad's use of indiscriminate weapons such as barrel bombs and his delaying the process of eliminating his chemical arsenal suggests he sees little prospect of the West taking meaningful action against him.

Reuters photographs showed streets packed with Aleppo residents carrying large packs as they fled the home-made barrel bombs -- oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and metal fragments.

Barrel bombs, cheap and easy to construct and usually dropped from helicopters, often kill dozens at a time. Activists say they are being used to push people from opposition-held areas into state-controlled parts of the city.

“In recent days the flight of civilians has intensified and the regime has made some small gains,” said Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group.

“The main aid to their advance has been the opposition infighting.”

Conflicting accounts

The reported gains by Assad's forces are small. But if they build on them and take the opposition-held portion of Syria's former business hub, it would be a huge blow to the opposition, forcing it back into the northern and eastern countryside and leaving it without a major presence in either of the two biggest cities.

Other opposition sources deny government advances. Media access in Syria is severely limited by violence and government restrictions, making conflicting accounts difficult to verify.

Syria's civil war has killed more than 130,000 people and forced over 6 million from their homes.

Russia and the United States, aligned with opposing sides of the conflict -- Moscow backs Assad while Washington supports the opposition -- have been deadlocked and unable to ease the violence.

But they joined forces to launch the Geneva peace negotiations, which began two weeks ago. The first round produced few results, but a second round starts next week.

Preparations for the talks took place in tandem with a deal to remove Syria's chemical weapons, agreed a month after a poison gas attack in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21 which killed hundreds. The deal allowed Assad to escape U.S.-led air strikes.

Syria has failed to meet its deadline to eliminate all chemical agents by next week, but Russia said the government would be able to complete the removal by March 1.

“Literally yesterday the Syrians announced that the removal of a large shipment of chemical substances is planned in February. They are ready to complete this process by March 1,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov, according to the state-run Russian news agency RIA.

Chemical delay

The delay in removing chemical weapons has prompted Western criticism that Damascus was seeking to gain leverage during the peace talks. Russia says those concerns are overblown and rejects claims that the move is deliberate, while Syria has blamed security concerns for the delay.

Russia on Tuesday was also hosting the leader of the opposition's National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba -- the first time since the three-year-old conflict began.

Moscow wants to convince the Coalition-led opposition delegation at Geneva to include more moderate internal opposition groups, which opposition forces argue are Assad stooges.

On the ground in Syria, Assad's forces are pushing for gains in the north, where opposition forces hold large swathes of territory, and central Syria, which links to the capital Damascus and the president's stronghold on the coast.

Like many parts of Syria, Aleppo is divided between the opposition and Assad forces in a stalemate that has lasted over a year, killing hundreds with little change in the balance of power.

But the opposition fighters' hold on Aleppo, Syria's largest city, has been weakened after an alliance of hard-line and secular opposition groups tried to force out a radical al-Qaeda splinter group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The infighting alone has killed more than 2,300 opposition fighters in the past month.

“The regime advances are very small, but it seems they want to repeat the strategy used in the suburbs outside Damascus and Homs - they want to loop around the opposition areas and put them under siege,” said one Aleppo activist, who asked not to be named because he said opposition forces were trying to suppress information about army advances.

Assad's forces have been using siege tactics, sometimes for months on end, to drain opposition held areas of food and supplies.

The Aleppo activist voiced frustration that Western powers, long wary of radical hard-liners, had not come to help the opposition now fighting both Assad and ISIL.

“No one will help us. Aleppo has been home to civilizations for centuries and it's now being destroyed, stone by stone.”

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Op dinsdag 4 februari 2014 20:30 schreef IPA35 het volgende:

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Je klinkt soms alsof je iets van een autocue opleest .