Violating International Law
"This clearly violates international law and doesn't allow you to make maximum efforts to consolidate the country.""Only a consolidation of all forces in Syria will allow the country to get on its feet and start steady development.""The results [of the 'election'] show that people trust you and, despite the difficulties and tragedies of past years, they still associate the process of recovery and return to normal life with you.""The main problem in my opinion is that foreign armed forces are present in certain territories of the country without a UN decision or your approval, which clearly contradicts international law.""Terrorists have sustained serious, significant damage, and the Syrian government, headed by you, controls 90 percent of the territory."Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin, September 2021
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| Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. kremlin.ru |
"As you are aware, Mr President, many refugees and internally displaced persons were driven out of the country by fear of terrorism. Others fled because infrastructure was destroyed, and they lost their jobs"."We continue to maintain direct contact with most of the states in which these refugees are residing. We are aware that they are eager to return, especially after Syria has provided certain benefits to encourage the return process.""However, the problem is that terrorists are still holding some regions of our country, and Syria and its people are under economic blockade, which does not help us meet the Syrian refugees’ essential needs. Schools are closed or have been destroyed, and providing essential services is a challenge."Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, November 2020
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| November 2020 Video Conference Office of the President of Russia |
The 'terrorists' to whom al-Assad refers is not only the diminished presence of the Islamic State Islamist fundamentalist terror group with their lingering intention to re-establish their caliphate, but the Syrian people who are not Shiite Alawites who dared defy their president. A president who used proscribed gas weapons to kill and demoralize his Sunni rebel civilian population, and continually barrel-bombed civilian enclaves, in the process maiming and killing people, and also destroying vital infrastructure, not sparing heirloom world heritage sites.
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| A peaceful uprising against
the president of Syria 10 years ago turned into a full-scale civil war.
The conflict has left more than 380,000 people dead, devastated cities
and drawn in other countries. Reuters |
As for Russia's involvement in Syria, were it not for Russian bombs released by Russian jets flying over 'problem' areas and still doing so, around Idlib to the present day -- and Iranian-aligned Shiite militias marauding and killing wherever opposition to the Assad regime still raises its plaintive head, including Iran's proxy Hezbollah and the strategic work of the IRGC Quds force, Syria would be a free and sovereign country, possibly led by patriotic Syrians breaking the mould of the Assad dynasty.
In referring disparagingly to the unwanted presence of American military troops still remaining in Syria, supporting their Kurdish allies and keeping Turkish malevolence against Kurds at bay as much as possible, Vladimir Putin knows by personal experience all about interfering in other countries' sovereign autonomy. Georgia had the misfortune of being forced to defend itself when Russian troops invaded South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Ah yes, without invitation. Without dispensation from the United Nations.
The very 'international crimes' it is accusing the United States of. Where Russia entered to acquire territory, the U.S. entered unbidden to protect lives and prevent a wider upheaval, while battling to overcome the sweep of the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant whose atrocities were truly stomach-turning, and whose threats against Yazidis, Christians and other minorities foretold ongoing human rights abuses. And then there's the trifling matter of ISIL affiliates and loners striking in the West...
Ukraine is as good an example as any of Russian interference in other countries; its claim on the
Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine and its violent takeover of Crimea, its role in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner, its agitation through Belarus and threats toward Ukraine are criminal in the extreme; unjustified, violent, acutely destabilizing, costing lives and creating fear throughout eastern Europe of Russia's plans for countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania once part of the Soviet Union.
Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine and its violent takeover of Crimea, its role in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner, its agitation through Belarus and threats toward Ukraine are criminal in the extreme; unjustified, violent, acutely destabilizing, costing lives and creating fear throughout eastern Europe of Russia's plans for countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania once part of the Soviet Union.
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Even before the conflict began, many Syrians were complaining about high unemployment, corruption and a lack of political freedom under President Bashar al-Assad, who succeeded his father, Hafez, after he died in 2000.In March 2011, pro-democracy demonstrations erupted in the southern city of Deraa, inspired by uprisings in neighbouring countries against repressive rulers. AFP |
Labels: Arab Republic of Syria, Bashar al Assad, Greater Russia, Human Rights Abuses, Vladimir Putin, War-Mongering
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, September 16, 2021
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