Russia: West Purposefully Sabotaging Peace in Syria

[John F Kennedy III]

Russia: West Purposefully Sabotaging Peace in Syria

Also, German paper FAZ reports Houla was the work of rebels, not pro-Assad militias

Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Sunday, June 10, 2012

In his most recent statement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeated that Russia opposes any attempt to intervene or level sanctions against Syria. He also exposed the West’s role in purposefully perpetuating violence in order to sabotage peace efforts and create a pretense for NATO-enforced regime change. He warned, “the way the Syrian crisis is resolved will play an important role in the world tomorrow; whether the world will be based on the UN charter, or a place where might makes right.” This after US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice declared the West was prepared to “take actions outside of the Annan plan and the authority of this [UN security] council,” to implement regime change in Syria.



Lavrov’s sentiments were echoed by China, Iran, and South America’s ALBA nations, whose collective populations equate to over 1.5 billion people.

Video: Russia’s stance reflects a growing global consensus of independent journalists and geopolitical analysts who have meticulously and objectively documented a timeline of what is certainly a premeditated destabilization of Syria by the West. Professor Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research gives perhaps the most comprehensive back-story on Syria’s conflict to-date.

Lavrov made his statements during a conference held yesterday, focusing on evidence contradicting the politically motivated coverage of Syria’s conflict by the Western media – the latest example of which was in fact the West’s coverage of Lavrov’s comments themselves. Western papers declared different variations of, “Russia supports departure of Assad,” in sensational headlines that purposefully took Lavrov’s statements out of context.

Conversely, and more accurately, RT reported, “Annan plan ‘only chance for peace’ but stalled by intervention supporters – Lavrov.” For those who actually watched Lavrov’s conference live, this was the overall message – with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down if, and only if, unconditional negotiations began, and both sides could come to an agreement independent of foreign influence. But as Lavrov illustrated, the Syrian “opposition” is entirely propped up by the West and its Gulf State allies.

West’s “Houla Impetus” Unraveling, Major German Paper Implicates Rebels, not Regime

Of course, the US’ pretext for making such bold statements has been the recent “Houla Massacre,” pinned on the Syrian government even before UN monitors arrived on the scene. Similarly, Western media has been reporting “activist” hearsay regarding a string of additional “massacres,” none of which have been confirmed in an attempt to generate general hysteria and support for a broader intervention.

In a recent development, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) paper has reported (Google English translation here) that evidence indicates rebels, not pro-government militias, were responsible for the violence at Houla, and that many of the victims were in fact supporters of the Syrian government. Covered by John Rosenthal in the National Review Online, his article warns of “rebel atrocities being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as regime atrocities.”

Already, Western press has backpedaled and been caught outright fabricating evidence in regards to the Houla Massacre, with the BBC even being caught using pictures taken from Iraq years ago for their Syrian coverage. This latest account from FAZ further indicates that indeed the West is engaged in a vast campaign of war propaganda to do exactly what Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has warned they are doing, attempting to fill the international community with indignation, and “start a full-blown intervention in Syria.”


original article here:
http://www.infowars.com/russia-west-...eace-in-syria/

[HOLLYWOOD]

I see the US/UK faso-corporate media releasing their "TIMED" propaganda according to the plan.

So simple now to put the covert war pieces together from our Departments of Propaganda and Wars.

[John F Kennedy III]

I see the US/UK faso-corporate media releasing their "TIMED" propaganda according to the plan.

So simple now to put the covert war pieces together from our Departments of Propaganda and Wars.

Yep. In conjunction with the Ministry of Truth.

[alucard13mmfmj]

Peace doesn't make money and doesn't serve the purpose of the west. ANY conflict in the world is favorable to bankers/elite.

[paulbot24]

That was nice of Germany. All this BS and China just quietly sits back stockpiling gold......

[alucard13mmfmj]

That was nice of Germany. All this BS and China just quietly sits back stockpiling gold......

China seems to play it smart... USA does the bombing, China comes in and takes up mineral/resource rights. Nice

[HOLLYWOOD]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...ohn-rosenthal#

Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
By John Rosenthal

June 9, 2012 4:00 A.M.

Comments 12



It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western media. Within days of the first reports of the Houla massacre, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, and several other Western countries announced that they were expelling Syria’s ambassadors in protest.
But according to a new report in Germany’s leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. For its account of the massacre, the report cites opponents of Assad, who, however, declined to have their names appear in print out of fear of reprisals from armed opposition groups.
According to the article’s sources, the massacre occurred after rebel forces attacked three army-controlled roadblocks outside of Houla. The roadblocks had been set up to protect nearby Alawi majority villages from attacks by Sunni militias. The rebel attacks provoked a call for reinforcements by the besieged army units. Syrian army and rebel forces are reported to have engaged in battle for some 90 minutes, during which time “dozens of soldiers and rebels” were killed.
“According to eyewitness accounts,” the FAZ report continues,

the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla’s Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla’s population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.

The FAZ report echoes eyewitness accounts collected from refugees from the Houla region by members of the Monastery of St. James in Qara, Syria. According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered “entire Alawi families” in the village of Taldo in the Houla region.
Already at the beginning of April, Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix of the St. James Monastery warned of rebel atrocities’ being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as regime atrocities. She cited the case of a massacre in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs. According to an account published in French on the monastery’s website, rebels gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya and blew up the building with dynamite. They then attributed the crime to the regular Syrian army. “Even though this act has been attributed to regular army forces . . . the evidence and testimony are irrefutable: It was an operation undertaken by armed groups affiliated with the opposition,” Mother Agnès-Mariam wrote.
— John Rosenthal writes on European politics and transatlantic security issues. You can follow his work at www.trans-int.com

[HOLLYWOOD]

Here's a nice piece you won't find in Western Faso-corporatistic media and the Washington DC propaganda machine.

http://www.thechinatimes.com/online/2012/06/3804.html

China, Russia and the SCO against the use of force in Syria and Iran



The six countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in which China and Russia
play a leading role, have concluded their annual summit Thursday, stating their opposition to
the use of force against Iran and Syria.


“Member states have opposed any military intervention, the imposition of a regime change or unilateral sanctions” in the Middle East, said heads of state of countries SCO after their summit in Beijing.
The leaders of the SCO (Russia, China and four former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan) have endorsed the statements.
Specifically on Syria, SCO said in its final statement the “need to stop all forms of violence, whatever its origin” and advocated a “peaceful solution through political dialogue”.

The SCO also noted Thursday its opposition to the use of force against Iran, accused by Western countries of trying to develop atomic weapons. “Any attempt to solve the Iranian issue by force would be unacceptable and would lead to unpredictable consequences, threatening the stability and security in the region and worldwide,” noted the six countries.
Iran is among the countries having the status of observers at the SCO and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Beijing Thursday, was to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in the day, while uncertainties on the nature of Tehran’s nuclear program continues to cause concern.

Founded in 1996, the SCO with its observers represent 43% of the world population.