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08
May
This is the first hopeful news concerning that unhappy country in a very long time. The statements made in Moscow constitute a very significant first step forward. It is nevertheless only a first step.
06
May
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict. As a result, the Commission is not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time.
We collected some witness testimony that made to appear that some chemical weapons were used in particular nerving gas and what appeared to our investigation that was used by… the rebels. We have no indication at all that the government…has used chemical weapons.
Carla Del Ponte, a leading member of the UN inquiry commission, told Swiss TV that there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” of the use of chemical weapons by either the Syrian government or the rebels.
03
May
(via @zaidbenjamin)
27
Apr
President Obama has called the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government a “game changer,” but the White House says current findings are preliminary. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday said the U.S. “must give the opposition the capability to drive out Bashar al-Assad once and for all.”
24
Apr
Brahimi’s report (on April 19) to the United Nations Security Council was marked by (a tone of) interference in Syria’s internal affairs and a lack of the neutrality required by his mission as international mediator.
19
Apr
Children are among the ones who suffer most. Children have been murdered, tortured and subjected to sexual violence. Many do not have enough food to eat. Millions have been traumatized by the horrors… This brutal conflict is not only shattering Syria’s present, it is destroying its future.
(Source: english.alarabiya.net)
16
Apr
We, leaders of UN agencies charged with dealing with the human costs of this tragedy, appeal to political leaders involved to meet their responsibility to the people of Syria and to the future of the region. The international community needs to find a political solution to this conflict before the human carnage grows and grows from a crisis to what is already becoming a catastrophe.
(Source: aljazeera.com)
09
Apr
I felt terrible. What can one feel to see so many bodies? People under the rubble and we can’t do anything about it. No one is supporting us and no one will. They’re just waiting for Bashar al-Assad to kill us all and for us to wear out his army, his tanks and his air-crafts in the process. That’s what the Western and Arab countries want. Their heart isn’t with the Syrian people. They don’t care about all this, about these people that are bombed to pieces.
