The People’s Rule: An Interview With Saleh Muslim, Part I + II
The People’s Rule: An Interview With Saleh Muslim, Part I
27 February 2014 / Carnegie Endowment for Peace
In 2003, Saleh Muslim Mohammed was a founding member of the Democratic Union Party, better known by its Kurdish acronym PYD, which is the largest Kurdish party in Syria. In 2010, he was elected party chairman. When the PYD established a gender-balanced double chairpersonship in 2012, he continued as one of two co-chairs alongside his female counterpart, Asya Abdullah.
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Knocking On Every Door: An Interview With Saleh Muslim, Part II
28 February 2014 / Carnegie Endowment for Peace
The PYD says it supports a negotiated transition, but it boycotted the Geneva II conference for peace in Syria. Why?
We wanted to go, but . . . [those organizing the conference] didn’t allow us. If you invite somebody to come, you have to invite them in accordance with their identity. We would like to go there identified as Kurdish people, saying that the delegation has one member of the Kurdish people representing the Kurds. But they didn’t allow us to do this. But we are ready to join Geneva II or Geneva III anytime—as soon as they accept the Kurdish being.
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TODAY’S MESOP DOCUMENTATION : Syria Leads U.S. Human Rights Report
The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report said the tragedy of Syria’s civil war “stands apart in its scope and human costs,” citing the chemical weapons attack near Damascus, the use of barrel bombs and Scud missiles, and the torture and murder of civilians. / This CFR Backgrounder explains the Syrian conflict and the global response to the crisis. Read more: www.mesop.de
KURDISCHER SAKRALBAU ZERSTÖRT – TIL MARUF
Am gestrigen Donnerstag (27.02.14) haben Islamisten von der Gruppe „Islamischer Staat in Irak und in Syrien (ISIS)“, unterstützt von anderen syrischen Jihadistengruppen, die Ruhestätte des kurdischen muslemischen al Khaznawi-Ordens in der Ortschaft Til Maruf im Nordosten von Syrien zerstört. Dutzende von kurdischen Zivilisten, vor allem Kinder, Frauen und Alte wurden getötet, verwundet oder entführt.
TODAY’S MESOP INSIGHT SHORT CUTS SYRIA (II)
The United States’ annual “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” has condemned the Syrian government calling the country’s civil war a tragedy that “stands apart in its scope and human cost.” The report highlighted a chemical weapons attack it says killed 1,429 people as “one of the many horrors” of the war. In a report to the United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons joint mission, the Syrian government said two attempted attacks on chemical weapons convoys on January 27 and ongoing military activities contributed to its failure to meet a February 5 deadline for the transport of all of its chemical arsenal out of the country. Syria has proposed a new timetable to remove its chemical weapons by the end of April. Read more: www.mesop.de
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT SHORT CUTS (I)
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have begun withdrawing from areas of northern Syria. The movement of forces has come four days after al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front issued an ultimatum to ISIL to agree to mediation over infighting in Syria, or face expulsion from the country. ISIL fighters have reportedly left the town of Azaz, three miles from the Turkish border, which it had seized from rival opposition groups about five months ago. According to Rami Abdulrahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ISIL “is heading to areas that neighbor Raqqa province where it has its main stronghold in the city of Raqqa.” The Observatory says 3,300 people have been killed in clashes between rebel factions since the beginning of 2014. Read more: www.mesop.de
ASSAD’S BARRELL / CLUSTER BOMBS ! NO PROTEST AT ALL BY WESTERN LEFT-WINGERS
Barrel bombings cause mass evacuation in east Aleppo
Edward Dark Posted February 27, 2014 – AL MONITOR – ALEPPO, Syria — The regime’s Aleppo campaign has reached a new crescendo, with the controversial barrel bombing taking center stage in what is essentially a drive to depopulate the rebel-held east of the city. It’s a horrific tactic that kills and maims innocents, and such indiscriminate heavy bombing may amount to a war crime.
Syrian Women & the Uprising: Fighting on Multiple Fronts
26 February 2014 – Syria Untold
Assad’s Achilles’ Heel: The Manpower Problem / By Balint Szlanko
Balint Szlanko Friday, February 21, 2014 – Carnegie Endowment – (…) This post will look at the Syrian government’s capabilities, arguing that while the regime has seen some important success recently, it continues to be hobbled, and might eventually be undone, by a serious manpower problem.
MESOP FLASH WEST KURDISTAN : YPG CALLS TO LEAVE TAL MARUF
Mutlu Çiviroglu @mutludc 16 Min. YPG calls residents of Tal Maruf 2 leave town because clashes r getting worse #Syria @Hevallo @vvanwilgenburg @raeontheroad #TwitterKurds
Rift in Syria opposition may set back Western efforts / JOSHUA LANDIS – ARON LUND & OTHERS
By Raja Abdulrahim – Los Angeles Times – February 27, 2014 . – Division among rebel factions over the sacking of a commander could undermine Western nations’ focus on bolstering anti-Assad forces in the south.
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