Monday 30 July 2012

Qamishlo people out yesterday.

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UN: Ban urges end to Syria fighting as number of people affected reaches two million

With as many as two million people affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today renewed his call on all parties to put an end to armed violence and prevent further bloodshed.

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The Last Ramadan of the Dictatorship

It is difficult to conduct an opinion poll in a country like Syria, but it is easy to say that less than ten percent of Syrians were following the vote on the Western draft resolution regarding Syria, in the Security Council. While the eyes of the society most associated with the movement of change were directed towards Damascus and Aleppo, the wider humanitarian and survival situation for the society did not even allow people to keep track of the media. One revolutionary in Daraa province said to me on his satellite mobile phone: “I have seen in recent weeks cases of amputation of the hand and foot more than fifteen times, because of the absence of specialist surgeons and places worthy of the name ‘surgery’. We lack doctors, we lack medicine and we lack food. Indiscriminate shelling around us has made us inevitable creatures of death. Me as a fighter, I have chosen this for myself, but the number of fighters compared to the total number victims is less … not because they are cowards, but because the shelling is blind and is designed more to terrorise people than to face the insurgents. The human being is the cheapest thing in Syria today; food and energy like gas and diesel are rare and are absent completely from some areas; people cut trees and use dried animal dung for cooking food; the price of ammunition is mythical, and medicine is increasing in price; human beings are the only cheaply price commodity. I tried to pass some news to the Gulf satellite channels, but it seems that the issue is not important for them. They want news to fit their media’s policy; they are looking for a massacre. We as human beings have not been slaughtered yet; we no longer deserve even a small report about our situation.” Read more

Syria: from the oppositions gathered in Sant’Egidio an appeal for a political solution

Syria is experiencing the most dramatic crisis in its history. The option for a military solution, which does not take into  account the revolt’s calls for the freedom and dignity of the Syrian people, has led to the spread of violence, the loss of too many human lives and generalized destruction

Gathered in Rome at the Community of Sant’Egidio, we who belong to various groups of the Syrian democratic opposition, active both inside and outside the country, address this appeal to the Syrian people, to all sides involved and to the international community
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Crisis in Syria emboldens country’s Kurds

What is happening in Syria cannot be taken in isolation. The protracted upheaval in one of the Middle East’s biggest, most powerful and most influential countries is affecting the entire region and, most critically, its immediate neighbours.

Like Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon Turkey has already absorbed – almost without hesitation – thousands of Syrians fleeing the fighting, in particular from the northern cities of Hama and Aleppo. Read more

Sunday 29 July 2012

Protests continue over the Kurdish area in Syria.

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“We cannot accept Syria being transformed into a theatre of regional and international conflict. We believe the international community has the strength and the necessary ability to find a consensus that would be the basis of a political solution to the current dramatic crisis, based on the imposition of a ceasefire, the withdrawal of the military, the release of detainees and the kidnapped, the return of refugees, emergency assistance for the victims, a real global negotiation that excludes no one and a process that would be completed with real national reconciliation based on justice”. [See Guardian report below] Read more

Saturday 28 July 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: ”At least 20,028 people, among them 13,978 civilians and rebels, 968 army defectors and 5,082 members of the regime forces have been killed since the start of the revolt on March 15 of last year,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based Observatory, told AFP by phone.

The Observatory counts people who have taken up arms as civilians and keeps a separate tally for army defectors. Read more

Friday 27 July 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:  Approximately 130 Syrians have been killed on Friday 28/7/2012: 73 unarmed civilians:
- In Dera’a province 23 were killed. 12 civilians, including a child with an unknown identity who passed away in the al-Watany hospital under unknown conditions, and another by wounds four days ago, 1 from heavy machine gun shootings and clashes on the refugees camp(mukhayam al nazheen). 1 killed in the town of al-Shajara. A child from Homs province after being shot on the Syrian-Jordanian boarders. 2 women because of the bombardment on Busr al-Hareer town. A citizen killed after his car was targeted next to Saida town, a citizen due to the bombardment on Otman town, 3 citizens due to the bombardment of al-Hirak amd Da’el towns. A citizen was found dead on the Der’a al-muzayreb road, 2 days after his detainment in Reef Dera’a. Read more

Thursday 26 July 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:Approximately 160 Syrians have been killed on Wednesday 25/7/2012 - 83 unarmed civilians:

-In Aleppo province 23 killed. 15 civilians, including a woman a child and an athlete, were killed in the Salaheddine, Sakhour, and Tariq al-Bab, al-Marjeh and al-Qaterji neighbourhoods. 1 civilian by sniper in the city of al-Bab. 2 by wounds from yesterday’s bombardment on the Hanano and Salaheddine neighbourhoods. 1 by the bombardment on the city of A’zaz, reef Aleppo. 2 civilians were killed, 1 was a woman, when rockets fell on the village of Tel Sha’eib. 1 killed when a rocket fell between the towns of Tel Rif’at and Jabrein. The body of a killed child was found by the al-Sha’ar police station in the city of Aleppo. Read more

Wednesday 25 July 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: : Approximately 160 Syrians have been killed on Wednesday 25/7/2012: 83 unarmed civilians:

-In Aleppo province 23 killed. 15 civilians, including a woman a child and an athlete, were killed in the Salaheddine, Sakhour, and Tariq al-Bab, al-Marjeh and al-Qaterji neighbourhoods. 1 civilian by sniper in the city of al-Bab. 2 by wounds from yesterday’s bombardment on the Hanano and Salaheddine neighbourhoods. 1 by the bombardment on the city of A’zaz, reef Aleppo. 2 civilians were killed, 1 was a woman, when rockets fell on the village of Tel Sha’eib. 1 killed when a rocket fell between the towns of Tel Rif’at and Jabrein. The body of a killed child was found by the al-Sha’ar police station in the city of Aleppo. Read more

Tuesday 24 July 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: More than 70 Syrians have been killed so far today 24/7/2012: 46 Unarmed civilians:

-Aleppo province 16 killed. 8 prisoners were killed during the suppression of a revolt in the Aleppo central prison. 4 civilians, including a woman, were killed by the regime bombardment on the Saif al-Dawla and al-Kallasa neighbourhoods of Aleppo. 1 killed by regime fire in al-Bab al-Hadid neighbourhood. 2 youngmen killed by the bombardment of the al-Jeena town. 1 civilian killed by gunfire in the city of al-Bab. Read more

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