Syrian 'Moderate' Cut Off Limbs of Christians, Obama Rewards The With Weapons
Written by sundance
(VIA RT)
Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, who has been living in Syria for 20 years
and has been reporting actively on what has been going on in the
war-ravaged country, says she carefully studied the video featuring
allegedly victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village
of Guta in August and now questions its authenticity. [...]
Mother Agnes: In
the village of Estreba they massacred all the residents and burnt down
their houses. In the village of al-Khratta almost all the 37 locals were
killed. Only ten people were able to escape.
A total of twelve
Alawite villages were subjected to this horrendous attack. That was a
true slaughterhouse. People were mutilated and beheaded. There is even a video that shows a girl being dismembered alive – alive! – by a frame saw. The
final death toll exceeded 400, with 150 to 200 people taken hostage.
Later some of the hostages were killed, their deaths filmed.
At the moment we are
looking for the hostages and negotiating their release with the
militants, but so far we haven’t managed to achieve that.
RT: We
often hear reports of Christians being persecuted by the militants. Just
the day before yesterday there was an attack in the village of
Maaloula, where the majority of population is Christian. Are Christians
in Syria facing grave danger?
Mother Agnes: Everyone
in Syria is facing grave danger. There was a case of Muslim religious
leaders being kidnapped and beheaded. They were humiliated and tortured.
Ismailis, the druze, Christians – people from all parts of Syrian
society – are being mass murdered. I would like to say that if these
butchers didn’t have international support, no one would have dared to
cross the line. But today, unfortunately, the violation of human rights
and genocide in Syria is covered up on the international level.
I demand the
international community stops assessing the situation in Syria in
accordance with the interests of a certain group of great powers. The
Syrian people are being killed. They fall victim to contractors, who are provided with weapons and sent to Syria to kill as many people as possible.
The truth is, everywhere in Syria people are being kidnapped, tortured,
raped and robbed. These crimes remain unpunished, because the key
powers chose international terrorism as a way to destroy sovereign
states. They’ve done it to other countries. And they will just keep
doing it if the international community doesn’t say “Enough!” (read more)
BEIRUT, Sept 12 (Reuters) –
The death toll from an alleged massacre in an Alawite village in
central Syria has risen to 22, including women, children and elderly
men, a rights monitoring group said on Thursday.
The minority Alawite
sect to which President Bashar al-Assad and most of Syria’s elite belong
is an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam whose members have increasingly been
targeted by radical fighters among the Sunni Muslim-dominated opposition
in the 2-1/2-year revolt against Assad.
The British-based
Observatory said the victims included seven women, three men over the
age of 65, and four children under the age of 16, citing residents and
medics.
Rami Abdelrahman, head
of the Observatory, said the victims had been shot in their homes, and
that they were not members of any pro-Assad militias. Activists in Homs
had said on Wednesday that the dead were all from pro-government
militias.
Al Qaeda-linked groups
have launched an “Eye for an Eye” campaign, which they say is to take
revenge for an apparent chemical weapons attack in rebel-held suburbs of
Damascus in which of civilians died. The opposition and Western powers
blame Assad’s forces for the strike. (continue reading)
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