Fred Hiatt: Why does the U.S. ‘stand so idly by’ on Syria? / Washington Post
By Fred Hiatt, Published: May 5 – Quoted below are President Obama; Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and, before that, a journalist and writer; and Valerie Amos, U.N. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs.
“The Security Council . . . being appalled at the unacceptable and escalating level of violence and the death of well over 100,000 people in Syria, including over 10,000 children . . . demands that all parties immediately put an end to all forms of violence.” — U.N. Security Council Resolution 2139, adopted Feb. 22
MESOP : US Recognises Syrian Opposition Offices As ‘Foreign Mission’
Washington (AFP) 6.5.2015 – In a boost to the Syrian opposition, Washington has recognised its offices in the United States as diplomatic missions, US officials said Monday, as the movement’s chief prepares for high-level talks here.
MESOP CULTURE : THE SOUND OF YARMOUK CAMP – IGNORED BY WESTERN PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
Exclusive interview with Yarmouk’s ‘Refugees of Rap’ as they launch new album for Syria, ‘The Time of Silence’ / Palestinian camps network news union
The Syrian-Palestinian rap band ‘Refugees of Rap’ is preparing for the launch of its new album, ‘The Time of Silence’, today in the French capital, Paris. The world-renowned band from Yarmouk camp, which has played gigs in various European capitals, has stood since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in solidarity with the revolution and against the Assad regime, singing songs about the Palestinian and Syrian people and the suffering of Palestinians under Assad, particularly those in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.
RWB: International Watchdog Slams PYD Treatment of Journalists
MESOP FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
By Deniz Serinci – 5.5.2015 – COPENHAGEN, Denmark – International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which controls Syria’s Kurdish Regions (Rojava), of disrespecting freedom of speech and arresting journalists in Syrian Kurdistan. “The PYD and its henchmen have no qualms about arresting or even abducting news and information providers whom they see as too critical in order to silence them and intimidate the others,” said the France-based international NGO.
Komalgay Demokratîk û Azadiya Rojhilatê Kurdistanê / KODAR yekemîn kongreya xwe a damezrandinê li darxist
NAVENDA NÛÇEYAN 05.05.2014 – Komalgay Demokratîk û Azadiya Rojhilatê Kurdistanê, KODAR yekemîn kongreya xwe ya damezrandinê li darxist.
Li çiyayên Qendîlê Hevserokatiya KODAR’ê daxuyaniyeke berfireh a çapemeniyê da. Daxuyanî di demjimêr 13.15’an de destpêkir û heya 14.40’an berdewam kir. Danezana damezrandina sîstema KODAR’ê ji aliyê Hevserokatiya KODAR’ê ve hatine xwandin. Zîlan Tanya belevoka danezanê xwand.
“The anti-imperialist forces ” : Russia to Provide Syria with First Batch of Jet Trainers until End of Year
MESOP : BROTHERLY HELP
© RIA Novosti. Anton Denisov – MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia plans to send the initial batch of the Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainers to Syria until the end of 2014, with further plans to fully complete the contract for 36 aircraft in 2016, the Kommersant newspaper wrote Monday, citing a source close to Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport. Damascus will receive nine aircraft until the end of this year, and in the next two years – 12 and 15 respectively, according to the informant.
MESOP FLASH : Syrian Kurds face split over presidential elections / PYD GIVE ASSAD A CHANCE !
Asharq al-Awsat – 5-5-2015 – Opposition calls for Christians to boycott poll over discrimination
syrian Kurdish leaders have become increasingly split over whether to allow Bashar Al-Assad’s government to allow voting in Syria’s forthcoming presidential election in areas under their control in northern Syria, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned.
A TESTIMONY ON THE BAATH REGIME
In the spring of 2011, it would have been possible to contain the protest movement that later developed in the country. But for this to happen it would have been necessary to listen to the protesters’ demands, in Daraa, Homs, Hama, it would have been necessary to bring reasonable answers that would have allowed them to believe in a resolution of their grievances. Instead, violence was used against them. A violence that their behaviour did not justify. – Read Full Text by General TLASS – http://www.mesop.de/?p=46700
Testimony of General Ahmed Tlass on the Syrian regime & repression
April 28, 2014, an interview by François Burgat ( Le Monde website) – : Born in 1961 in the town of Rastan between Homs and Hama, General Ahmed Tlass graduated from the Police Academy with a doctorate in Political Science. After more than 20 years at the head of the police’s financial division in the governorate of Hama, he was in 2008 appointed Director of the Office of Contracts at the Ministry of the Interior in Damascus. He still held this position when he decided, on the 27th of July 2012, to distance himself from a power whose actions he could no longer accept. He is now a refugee in Amman, Jordan, where he testified to François Burgat, researcher at the CNRS at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World, and Principal Investigator for the European Council (ERC)-funded WAFAW program (When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World).
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