JERUSALEM ONLINE : Kurdish Militants Make Gains in Northern Syria

26-3-2014 – Gabriel Avner – Militants belonging to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) were reported today to have defeated Islamist forces in the northern Syrian town of Kobani. The gains come as Iraqi Kurds have called for the release of an Iraqi Kurdish officer who killed the editor in chief of Radio Free Iraq in Baghdad on Sunday.

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“Live” Livens Up the Walls of Kafranbel

Some of the graffiti by the group “Live” in Kafranbel. Source: Live Facebook page.

Over the past three years of the Syrian revolution, the town of Kafranbel has reserved for itself a special place in the hearts of Syrians all over the country. The town has earned its status as the “Conscience of the Revolution”, through its world-famous banners which combine dark sarcasm and potent critique to a tremendous effect. A lesser known treasure of Kafranbel, however, are its walls.

“Live”, is an activist group based in Kafranbel that has taken up itself to furnish the walls of the town and its countryside with the ideas of the revolution through graffiti. The team of seven activists has managed to cover more than half the walls of Kafranbel so far. They work behind the scenes to “resist the bombardement and war that pollutes the walls and the ideas, and to maintain the town as a place for life, rather than death,” as one member says in an interview with SyriaUntold.

During the commemoration events of the revolution’s third anniversary the team was present in most of the activities. In cooperation with activist and organizer Zeina Erhayem, the team participated in the graffiti campaign that covered many walls with revolutionary slogans like: “Religion must not be coerced”, “Freedom and only freedom”, “Kidnapping activists is treason”, “Freedom forever, for every Syrian”, “The ideals of our revolution are red lines”. The slogans were devised and agreed upon by the different group to remind people of the lofty ideals of the revolution, as well as to shed light on the violations perpetrated by armed militias in liberated areas.

Slogans from the revolution on the walls of Kafranbel. Source: Live Facebook page.

The group also participated in another campaign to commemorate the revolution’s third anniversary which was organized by the Street for Media and Development group. This campaign focused on the danger of both forms of tyranny, that of the Assad regime and that of al-Qaeda style Islamic fundamentalism, on the revolution. In particular, the campaign took a strong line against the radical Islamist group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in an effort to “bring awareness to those those may have inadvertently began to betray the revolution’s early ideals.” These campaigns brought the group several threats from radical Islamist groups which accused them of apostasy, and attempted to vandalize several of their works.

The town of Kafranbel has had a great role in maintaining hope in the hearts of many fellow Syrians. Its banners became the messengers of Syria’s revolution and told the stories that have often gone unnoticed by media. And its colorful walls, thanks to the hands and toil of the team of “Live”, emerge from the carnage and smoke of war to say that, “there is no outcome but freedom.”

MESOP FLASH – SYRISCHES GIFTGAS AUS DEUTSCHLAND

COORDINATION GEGEN BAYER – GEFAHREN : Phosgen, Senfgas, Sarin, Tabun, VX-Kampfstoffe, Agent Orange….

100 Jahre Giftgas-Tradition bei BAYER – Von Philipp Mimkes und Jan Pehrke

Die in Syrien gelagerten Giftgase, darunter Sarin, Senfgas und VX, wurden größtenteils in den Laboren der BAYER AG entwickelt. Anlässlich der aktuellen Diskussion um Lieferungen an das syrische Regime erhalten. Anbei ein Dossier über die 100-jährige Giftgas-Geschichte des Konzerns. Die Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG) fordert, alle Exporteure von chemiewaffenfähigen Stoffen offen zu legen. Kurz nach Beginn des 1. Weltkriegs wurde auf Vorschlag des Kriegsministeriums eine Kommission ins Leben gerufen, die sich mit der Nutzung giftiger Abfallstoffe der Chemie-Industrie beschäftigte. Diese unterstand dem BAYER-Generaldirektor Carl Duisberg, Fritz Haber vom Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut sowie dem Chemiker Walter Nernst. Die Kommission empfahl der Heeresleitung zunächst die Nutzung von Chlorgas, wobei wissentlich gegen die Haager Landkriegsordnung verstoßen wurde, die den militärischen Einsatz von Giftgas seit 1907 verbietet.

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MESOP FLASH : Syria rebels take control of Assad’s village Qardaha en route to Lazkiya

26-3-2014 – worldbulletin – Video footage showed six fighters holding the black banner of the Ansar al-Sham brigade on a rocky beach, a symbolic rebel victory in the coastal province of Latakia, that has been an Assad stronghold throughout three years of conflict.Opposition rebels in Syria captured a village on the Mediterranean coast for the first time and battled to hold territory abutting the nearby Turkish border taken from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, activists said on Tuesday.

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MESOP LATEST : HDP: Armenians Deported To Syria Again Under Threat

26-3-2014 – Saruhan Oluç –  (ANF) –  HDP Co Vice-President Saruhan Oluç has released a statement in which he draws attention to the ongoing attacks against the Armenian village of Keseb in Syria, reading “how sad it is that Armenians deported from Turkey in 1915 are today once again being subjected to deportation with the support of the AKP government. Not only Keseb, but the Armenian neighborhoods in Aleppo are also under attack.”

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MESOP NOTEBOOK : ARMENIAN & KURDISH TOWNS UNDER TERROR

Armenians and Kurds urge the international community: Stop the Al Qaida terror against minorities in Syria !

By Roni Alasor / Lorin Sarkisian – Ararat News – 26.3.2014 – Brussels – (ANP) Armenians & Kurds urge the international community to make pressure on Turkey to stop the Al Qaida terrorist groups in Syria.Kurdish city Kobani is surrounded by Al Qaida extremists while the Armenian population is forced to leave their historical town.

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PYD aims to strengthen link with ETA & Catalonia

Insecure Partners for PYD

… no real progress: ETA is more or less bankrupt & and the wealthy catalonia far away from being on the side of social revolution.

25.03.2014 – Hemin Khoshnaw – BasNews, Erbil – A member of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced that the Syrian Kurdish party has good relations with Catalonia and the Basque region and that if they create stronger ties with the nationalist organization Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA) it is not for reasons related to weapons exchange.

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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – Defend Kobanê: Urgent call to UN & European Union

By Enver Muslim (PYD) , President of the Kobanê Canton

Kobanê, 25th March 2014 – The region of Kobanê  (Ayn-Al-Arab) has been under attack from gangs linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) for about 3 weeks. ISIS has been attacking the area from three directions: Jarablus to the west, Sarrin to the south, and Tal Abyad to the east. They have surrounded Kobanê from three sides after gathering all their forces deployed in Deyrel Zor, Halep, Raqqa, Lazkiye and other regions around the Kobane Canton.

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WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) : THE PRO IRAN ILLUSION OF PYD IS FADING AWAY THERE

Salih Muslim denies accusing Iran of backing ISIS fighters

25-3-2014 – Kurdpress  – The co-leader of Syria pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Salih Muslim denied he had accused the Islamic Republic of Iran of backing the jihadist forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) that are fighting against the Kurds in Syria Kurdish regions.

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