Konflikten i Syrien

Varför motarbetar Amnesty och media fredsprocessen i Syrien?

Oppositionsaktivist från Homs om Amnesty, Assad och terrorismen

Amnesty erkänner själva att dödssiffran är omöjlig att verifiera. Man har dock fått en lista på 375 namn från Syrian Network for Human Rights, som dött av tortyr och misshandel, alltså inte hängts utan rättegång.

Skepticism as Turkish officials declare al-Bab operations ‘over’.

A Turkish official has declared the military operations in al-Bab over, Turkish media reported, raising skepticism amongst observers in the midst of reports that Turkish bombardment on the town killed 24 civilians in the last 24 hours.* “Good news! The al-Bab operation is over,” Turkey’s Daily Sabah reported Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar telling reporters on Thursday.

Other sources, however, have given reports that contradict the Turkish claims.*

On Wednesday, the conflict monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that al-Bab was still “almost entirely” under ISIS control.*

The same day, a rebel spokesperson said that they were in control of 40 percent of the town and were making slow progress against ISIS whose militants were “still dug-in inside al-Bab,” Haithem Hamour, spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army’s al-Jabha a-Shamiyah, told the news outlet Syria Direct.*

The Observatory reported continued clashes in the al-Bab area on Thursday, noting that Turkish forces and their local allies “are still unable to take control” of the town.

http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/english/middleeast/syria/160220173

Al-Jaafari: Astana 2 meeting paved the way for Geneva talks, Syria is committed to ceasefire arrangements
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He noted that the meetings which the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic held with the Russian and Iranian friends were “fruitful” and that they have contributed a great deal to the convening of this meeting.
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“My country, Syria, will continue its efforts to liberate every inch of its territory from the control of the terrorist groups that are know; meaning ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra and their affiliates and those groups which do not commit to the cessation of hostilities regime,” said al-Jaafari.

Al-Jaafari clarified that the reason why no final concluding statement was issued at the end of the meeting is the that the delegations of the Turkish side and the armed groups arrived late in Astana.
He dismissed the belated arrival of the Turkish and armed groups delegations in the Kazakh capital as a proof of their lack of seriousness in form and in terms of their “clear will” to hinder and foil Astana meeting, noting that the Turkish delegation came with a low-level representation that is not up to the position of Turkey which claims to be one of the three guarantor countries.
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He made it clear that Turkey has failed to commit to controlling a border line of 910 km in light of its responsibility to do so, but has rather facilitated the entry of tens of thousands of mercenary terrorists from all corners of the world into Syria across the shared border, stressing that decisive measures should be taken to close the Turkish border in the face of the flow of terrorists into Syria, “that is if we really want to talk about a regime of a cessation of hostilities.”

“Turkey can’t play both roles of causing a fire and fighting it at the same time,” said al-Jaafari, affirming that Turkey is now playing the role of causing fire and must withdraw its invasive forces from Syria and respect the statement of Astana 1 meeting that stressed the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria.
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About the Turkish role in the process, al-Jaafari said “we need some patience to see a practical implementation by the Turkish side to a number of basic points, mainly controlling borders and combating terrorism, but, unfortunately the Turkish side didn’t meet its obligation until now.”
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Estimating Jordan’s role which participated as an observer in this meeting, al-Jaafari said “As for the participation of Jordan, we have to blame the politics of Jordan towards our country, whether in regards to Amman host of the military operations center (moc) room, or in regards to facilitating the movement of terrorists along our joint borders.”

Al-Jaafari pointed out to an attack launched by 8 terrorist factions, since four days, on Daraa city, adding that and all those factions are backed by Jordan, so, “we are looking forward to see Jordan’s representatives’ acts in this meeting applied on the ground.

“Jordan was and still a source of pain and trouble for Syrians… maybe the Jordanian share in Astana meeting as an observer will contribute to reconsidering its wrong policies towards Syria,” al-Jaafari concluded.

Det var tydligt i december då kända anhängare av al-Qaida och likasinnade extremister fick träda fram i media som ”civila” Aleppobor eller ”oppositionsaktivister”.

I efterhand visade det sig att invånarna i östra Aleppo inte alls fruktade de syriska myndigheterna. Av totalt 147.000 personer valde 111.000 att evakueras till regeringskontrollerade områden, enligt FN-statistik.

Bara 36.000 ville åka till Idlibprovinsen och byar i Aleppoprovinsens utkant för att fortsätta livet i den väpnade ”oppositionens” områden. I denna siffra ingår de stridande och deras familjer liksom stridande från andra länder."