Brian4Liberty
08-30-2014, 12:36 PM
Who remembers the good old days when a few Syrians took to the streets to protest the Assad Regime? Encouraged by western media and other entities, the protests escalated, as did the response from the Police. Would those protestors be happy with what they have now? Are the refugees who used to live in Syria happy with the outcome?
Here's a flashback to the early days of the protests. Imagine that, the regime was trying to "exploit people’s fears of communal conflict between Syria’s different religions and sects". Such an irrational fear. Some silly people actually thought that it could all turn out badly.
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But not the European communists. Revolt comrades!
Here is some vintage editorial from the "Workers Power" website, as the violence escalated:
Syrians can bring down Assad regime
SYRIAN security forces shot dead over 80 protesters on 22 April. They killed another 12 the next day, as the democracy movement attempted to bury its dead. President Bashar al-Assad has opened a river of blood between his regime and the people.
The Arab revolution, though slow to spread to Syria, has now proved democracy campaigners are as willing as their cousins in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya or Bahrain to sacrifice their lives for the overthrow of dictatorship.
The movement began with small protests in support of the Egyptian and Libyan people and against the police brutality with which these were treated. But the regime’s arrest of children for daubing anti-regime graffiti in the poor southern province of Daraa and its lethal response to local demands for their release ensured the spread of the movement across Syria.
Hoping to exploit people’s fears of communal conflict between Syria’s different religions and sects, presenting itself as the only defender of national unity, the Ba’ath Party regime has tried to paint the protests as sectarian.
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The revolution has won victories: forcing the government to grant citizenship to 200,000 Kurds in the north-east and to rescind the 1963 emergency law, which banned demonstrations and severely limited freedom of speech.
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http://www.workerspower.co.uk/2011/04/syrians-can-bring-down-assad/
And here we are today. Three million refugees, half of all Syrians displaced. Who could have seen this coming? Perhaps it was all of the Syrians who knew this would be the result, and did not want an escalation of violence where they lived.
3003
No worries though. No European communists or American pundits were killed in the process.
Syrian Refugees Top 3 Million; Half of All Syrians Displaced
The United Nations said the number of Syrian refugees registered in neighboring countries since 2011 will pass the three-million mark as of Friday, according to Reuters. That figure is one million refugees higher than last year.
In addition, another 6.5 million Syrians are displaced within their country, meaning that "almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives," said the UN.
Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said, "The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them."
Most refugees are currently in neighboring countries, with the highest concentrations in Lebanon (1.14 million), Turkey (815,000), Jordan (608,000), and Iraq (215,000), the UNHCR said.
The UNHCR report said some areas of Syria were emptying out as the front lines in the conflict shifted. "Recent arrivals to Jordan, for example, are running from attacks in the areas of al-Raqqa and Aleppo," the UNHCR said, referring to northern areas of Syria.
The three-million figure likely undercounts the actual number of refugees. Host governments estimate that hundreds of thousands more Syrians have fled to their countries without going through the formal registration process.
Syrians now constitute the world's largest refugee population under the care of the UNHCR.
Over 191,000 people have been killed so far in the first three years of Syria's civil war, a U.N. report said last week.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/29/Syrian-refugees-top-3-million-half-of-all-Syrians-displaced
Here's a flashback to the early days of the protests. Imagine that, the regime was trying to "exploit people’s fears of communal conflict between Syria’s different religions and sects". Such an irrational fear. Some silly people actually thought that it could all turn out badly.
3002
But not the European communists. Revolt comrades!
Here is some vintage editorial from the "Workers Power" website, as the violence escalated:
Syrians can bring down Assad regime
SYRIAN security forces shot dead over 80 protesters on 22 April. They killed another 12 the next day, as the democracy movement attempted to bury its dead. President Bashar al-Assad has opened a river of blood between his regime and the people.
The Arab revolution, though slow to spread to Syria, has now proved democracy campaigners are as willing as their cousins in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya or Bahrain to sacrifice their lives for the overthrow of dictatorship.
The movement began with small protests in support of the Egyptian and Libyan people and against the police brutality with which these were treated. But the regime’s arrest of children for daubing anti-regime graffiti in the poor southern province of Daraa and its lethal response to local demands for their release ensured the spread of the movement across Syria.
Hoping to exploit people’s fears of communal conflict between Syria’s different religions and sects, presenting itself as the only defender of national unity, the Ba’ath Party regime has tried to paint the protests as sectarian.
...
The revolution has won victories: forcing the government to grant citizenship to 200,000 Kurds in the north-east and to rescind the 1963 emergency law, which banned demonstrations and severely limited freedom of speech.
...
http://www.workerspower.co.uk/2011/04/syrians-can-bring-down-assad/
And here we are today. Three million refugees, half of all Syrians displaced. Who could have seen this coming? Perhaps it was all of the Syrians who knew this would be the result, and did not want an escalation of violence where they lived.
3003
No worries though. No European communists or American pundits were killed in the process.
Syrian Refugees Top 3 Million; Half of All Syrians Displaced
The United Nations said the number of Syrian refugees registered in neighboring countries since 2011 will pass the three-million mark as of Friday, according to Reuters. That figure is one million refugees higher than last year.
In addition, another 6.5 million Syrians are displaced within their country, meaning that "almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives," said the UN.
Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said, "The Syrian crisis has become the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era, yet the world is failing to meet the needs of refugees and the countries hosting them."
Most refugees are currently in neighboring countries, with the highest concentrations in Lebanon (1.14 million), Turkey (815,000), Jordan (608,000), and Iraq (215,000), the UNHCR said.
The UNHCR report said some areas of Syria were emptying out as the front lines in the conflict shifted. "Recent arrivals to Jordan, for example, are running from attacks in the areas of al-Raqqa and Aleppo," the UNHCR said, referring to northern areas of Syria.
The three-million figure likely undercounts the actual number of refugees. Host governments estimate that hundreds of thousands more Syrians have fled to their countries without going through the formal registration process.
Syrians now constitute the world's largest refugee population under the care of the UNHCR.
Over 191,000 people have been killed so far in the first three years of Syria's civil war, a U.N. report said last week.
...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/29/Syrian-refugees-top-3-million-half-of-all-Syrians-displaced