[Centraal] Crisis in Syrië en Irak #473

quote:

Op maandag 22 juli 2019 13:58 schreef Slayage het volgende:
Na het dramatische verlies van de akp komen er meer van dit soort "anti Syrische" beleid van de overheid. 1 van de redenen voor het verlies van de akp was de perceptie gedragen door veel Turken, "de Syriërs zijn een probleem". Vreemdelingen haat en xenofobie is de turk uiteraard ook niet vreemd. Zo probeert de akp iig over te komen dat er een poging wordt gedaan om iets aan "het probleem" te doen.

twitter:

aylushka_a twitterde op maandag 22-07-2019 om 13:39:33 In a sudden decision, #Istanbul governorate has ordered all Syrians unregistered in the city - possibly hundreds of thousands - to leave until 20 August or be forcibly taken, and they cannot apply to be registered here https://t.co/xuOewL8LvY reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 22 juli 2019 19:35 schreef Slayage het volgende:

[..]

ik heb het stuk vluchtig doorgelezen, maar het gaat over mensen die elders in turkije zijn geregistreerd, maar in istanbul wonen, ze worden verzocht terug te gaan naar waar ze geregistreerd zijn anders riskeren ze gedwongen deportatie naar de provincie waar ze ingeschreven zijn, is het dreigement.

klinkt als een wassen neus, maar dit soort berichten kom je steeds meer tegen komend vanuit het top. iets wat heel ongebruikelijk was tot voor kort.

quote:

Op dinsdag 23 juli 2019 08:52 schreef Slayage het volgende:
de kans dat assad ooit terecht zal staan is nihil, maar het is toch goed dat de wandaden gedocumenteerd worden. alleen maar om voor het publiek inzichtelijk te maken, waartoe de mens en in het verlengende, de mens in een staatsstructuur in staat is om te doen.

Al-Assad’s Nuremberg moment: Page by page, an NGO and its Canadian founder build a case for Syrian war crimes

Shrouded in secrecy, William Wiley and the Commission for International Justice and Accountability are collecting smuggled documents that he says makes the case for the Syrian President’s key role in atrocities
..........

“It’s the best evidence against a regime since Nuremberg,” the 55-year-old said, referring to the landmark postwar trials that convicted members of the Nazi regime and became the template for international justice. Mr. Wiley, who worked as an analyst for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, views the evidence against Mr. al-Assad as “much, much better” than what was presented in court against Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian leader who was charged with war crimes and genocide over his role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Mr. Milosevic died in custody in The Hague in 2006, before a verdict was reached in his trial.

The binders are English-language distillations of more than 800,000 pages of mostly Arabic-language evidence that CIJA has assembled. The documents make for often-appalling reading. Among the evidence that’s ready for an eventual prosecution are thousands of photos of detainees’ bodies – many of them badly mutilated – that were taken by a regime photographer who later defected. One document asks what should be done with a “hospital refrigerator full of unidentified corpses that have decomposed.”

quote:

Dozens killed in Idlib market bombing



Residents and rescuers say 50 killed in Syrian and Russian air raids on rebel-held Idlib. Air raids on a popular market and residential neighbourhoods in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province have killed at least 50 people and wounded scores more, a war monitor and rescuers said.

At least 36 civilians and two unidentified people were killed on Monday when Russian air raids hit a vegetable market and surrounding areas in Maarat al-Numan, a densely populated city in the south of Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

A nother 12 civilians were killed in Syrian government air raids in other parts of the province in northwestern Syria, the British-based monitor said. In Maarat al-Numan, a photographer with the AFP news agency said he saw men covered in blood being carried away from the market by residents and rescue workers. They used mattresses as makeshift stretchers, he said.

Activists said black smoke billowed over the city centre and citizens were on the streets crying for help. "Bodies are lying on the streets," Abdul Rahman al-Yasser, a rescuer from Idlib's civil defence team, told Reuters, as he searched for bodies under the rubble. "May God take revenge on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [Syrian President Bashar al-Assad] for their crimes."

The head of the local hospital, Radwan Shardub, described his horror at seeing "burnt and carbonised bodies and body parts". "It's boundless criminality to shameful international silence," he said. The White Helmets rescue group said one of its volunteers was killed during the raids, raising the number of rescue workers killed since April to six.

Russia denied it was responsible for the air attack calling the reports "fake". "The Russian air force was not carrying out any missions in this part of Syria," said a defence ministry statement.

Civilians targeted
Shortly after the market attack, Syrian state media said rebels shelled the government-held village of Jourin in northern Hama province, killing seven civilians.

Idlib has witnessed intensive air attacks and bombardment on a daily basis as Syrian troops, backed by Russian air cover, try to push their way into the enclave near the Turkish border. The province is the last major rebel stronghold in the country outside the control of Assad's forces.

Since the Syrian military launched its Idlib offensive in late April, more than 2,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. Reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr said crowded markets had been targeted during the campaign.

"Almost 700 people have been killed in recent weeks. This is kilometres away from the frontline but this is what the Syrian government has been doing," Khodr said.

"They target civilian neighbourhoods, civilian infrastructure, in order to force the rebels to surrender. But the rebels are not surrendering. In fact, what they are doing is putting up a fight and holding ground." Russia and the Syrian army deny allegations of indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas and say they are fighting al-Qaeda-inspired armed groups.

And despite the heavy bombardment, Assad's troops have failed to make major inroads into rebel territory in Hama and Idlib provinces, where rebels backed by Turkey alongside other armed groups are putting up fierce resistance. Turkey, which reached an accord last September with Russia to contain the fighting and is seen by many civilians in opposition areas as a protector, said Moscow should pressure its Syrian ally to halt the bombing.

"The responsibility to stop the regime attacks (in Idlib) is on our neighbour Russia," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Turkish broadcaster TGRT Haber. The struggling campaign underscores the limits of Syria and Russia's air power and inability to achieve a definitive victory in the country's long-running civil war, now in its ninth year.

On Sunday, government bombing in Idlib killed at least 18 people, including a young citizen journalist. The AFP, citing rescue workers, said Anas al-Dyab, a photographer and videographer in his early 20s, who contributed to the news agency was killed in his hometown of Khan Sheikhoun. He died while trying to film the air raids. Al-Dyab was also a member of the White Helmets.

quote:

Op dinsdag 23 juli 2019 22:09 schreef Slayage het volgende:

[..]

Tja kan bashar net zo goed blijven zitten. Het gaat toch nooit veranderen.

quote:

Op dinsdag 23 juli 2019 22:14 schreef Slayage het volgende:

[..]

Het Syrische leger stelt geen fuck meer voor kennelijk. Ondanks de zware bombardementen lukt het ze maar niet om door te stoten, zonder backing van Iran. Dat nu aan de zijlijn zit. Ik vermoed de Israëlische lobby bij de Russen.
Uiteraard lopen de Turken de boel te saboteren door hun leveringen, maar dat kan niet eeuwig door blijven gaan.

quote:

Op woensdag 24 juli 2019 19:12 schreef Slayage het volgende:
niks aan de hand mensen, jullie worden gered uit handen van de extremisten

[ afbeelding ]

twitter:

Charles_Lister twitterde op woensdag 24-07-2019 om 19:12:35 UPDATE: The girl shown stuck in the rubble *did* manage to rescue her baby brother.However, she just passed away in hospital, during surgery. Her brother remains in critical condition.Their mother & sister were killed. #Idlib #Ariha #Syria https://t.co/bsux6Nq6Qj reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 24 juli 2019 15:01 schreef Slayage het volgende:

[..]

jij denkt dat die fotos fake zijn?

quote:

Op woensdag 24 juli 2019 15:00 schreef Slayage het volgende:

[..]

dan kan erdogan net zo goed blijven in turkije, er veranderd toch niets want het Midden-Oosten is een regio om bij te fronsen, op zijn zachtst gezegd.

waarom is je standpunt zo vreselijk anders bij het ene midden oosterse land als bij het andere? je maakt je vreselijk druk over erdo in turkije mag oppleuren, maar assad syrie is zo gek nog niet en mag blijven.

ik gun de regio het beste en vind dat als leiders hun onbekwaamheid hebben getoond hun biezen moeten pakken, geldt voor erdo, omdat hij toont dat hij onbekwaam is om de turkije vandaag de dag degelijk te leiden. over de onbekwaamheid van de assad familie, hoef ik geen woorden aan vuil te maken.

quote:

Op maandag 22 juli 2019 14:43 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:
Nu de bouw stagneert is er toch geen werk meer voor al die talenten.