12-13-2016, 11:03 PM
*** 14-Dec-16 World View -- US's Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria's al-Assad, Russia, Iran
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
****
**** Syria's Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo
****
![[Image: g161213b.jpg]](http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com/ww2010/g161213b.jpg)
A family of Sunni 'terrorists' flee the fighting in Aleppo (Reuters)
It took four armies, but Syria's president Bashar al-Assad is claiming
victory in recapturing Aleppo from anti-Assad rebels. A year ago,
al-Assad himself said that his army was close to being defeated. But
then his three allies stepped up their military support with people,
weapons and bombs, and al-Assad is finally able to declare victory.
According to Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"Al-Assad's forces, propped up by Russia and Iran,
> have once again redefined horror. They have gone from siege to
> slaughter.
>
> Today the United Nations has received reports that pro-government
> forces have been entering homes in Eastern Aleppo. They have been
> going door to door, executing people on the spot. 82 people
> murdered. 13 of whom were women. 11 were children. None were
> terrorists.
>
> We have heard reports of women committing suicide, in order not to
> be raped. We have heard reports of people being burnt alive. We
> have heard reports that hundreds of men have disappeared fleeing
> Aleppo, taken by the regime. All these reports evoke the darkest
> days of the history of the United Nations.
>
> When it happened before, we said never again. Well, it is
> happening again, today."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
As I've been writing for a long time, Syria's president Bashar
al-Assad is the worst genocidal monster so far in this century. He
continues a line of monsters from the previous century that include
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and others.
The civil war in Syria was caused by al-Assad when he unleashed his
army and air force against peaceful protesters in 2011. Up to that
point, Turkey and Saudi Arabia were friendly with al-Assad. Things
really turned around in August 2011, when al-Assad launched a massive
military assault on a large, peaceful Palestinian refugee camp in
Latakia, filled with tens of thousands of women and children
Palestinians.
This attack alone shows that al-Assad's fight is not with
"terrorists," but with innocent Sunni civilians. Al-Assad is a member
of a Shia Alawite clan that has historically fought many wars with
Sunnis. To al-Assad, Sunni civilians are nothing but cockroaches to
be exterminated.
Al-Assad's genocidal extermination campaign on these "cockroaches" has
been a geopolitical disaster. Tens of thousands of young Sunnis
traveled to Syria to fight al-Assad, creating the so-called Islamic
State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). Syrians themselves formed the
"moderate" Free Syrian Army (FSA), or else joined al-Qaeda linked
Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front, now Jabhat Fateh al-Sham or JFS).
Millions of Syrians were killed or displaced, and well over a million
of them have fled to Europe to escape the violence.
Bashar al-Assad has the delusional view that after capturing Aleppo,
the war will quickly end. Al-Assad required three other armies to
capture Aleppo. Al-Assad started the civil war not because rebels
were taking up arms, but because civilians were peacefully protesting.
If civilians begin peacefully protesting again, will al-Assad attack
them again, and ask those three other armies to come back? UK Government and ARA News (Syria)
Related Articles
****
**** US's Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria's al-Assad, Russia, Iran
****
Many people, especially in the Mideast, blame al-Assad's geopolitical
disaster on inaction by the Barack Obama administration, especially
Obama's "red line" flip-flop on intervening when al-Assad used Sarin
gas on his own innocent civilians. It's impossible to know what the
outcome of intervention at that time would have been, but many people
believe that the worse of the genocide would have been avoided.
In fact, the Obama administration and many Western administrations
went farther, and avoided saying anything that might appear as a
criticism of al-Assad, Russia or Iran. However, several years of
built-up anger seemed to explode at the UN Security Council on
Tuesday, with the excoriating remarks of American's UN ambassador
Samantha Power:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, three member
> states, behind the conquest of and carnage in Aleppo. You bear
> responsibility for these atrocities by rejecting UN ICRC
> evacuation efforts, you are signaling to those militia who are
> massacring innocents to keep doing what they are doing. Denying
> or obfuscating the facts, as you will do today, saying up is down,
> black is white, will not absolve you. When one day there is a
> full accounting of the horrors committed in this assault of Aleppo
> - and that day will come sooner or later -- you will not be able
> to say you did know what is happening, you will not be able to say
> you were not involved.
>
> We all know what was happening, and we all know you were involved.
> Aleppo will join the ranks of those events in world history that
> define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later.
> Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and now Aleppo.
>
> To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, your forces and proxies are
> carrying out these crimes. Your barrel bombs and mortars and
> airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of
> thousands of civilians in your ever tightening noose.
>
> It is your noose. Three member states of the UN contributing to a
> noose around civilians. It should shame you. Instead, by all
> appearances, it is emboldening you. You are plotting your next
> assault. Are you truly incapable of shame? Is there literally
> nothing that can shame you?
>
> Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a
> child, that gets under your skin? That just creeps you out a
> little bit? Is there nothing you will not lie about, or
> justify?"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitali Churkin, responded as if he were
talking about another place altogether:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The vast majority of the former members of the
> illegal armed groups that have handed themselves over to the
> authorities as a result of the amnesty and have gone through the
> procedures have been returned to their families. The most
> important thing is, the counterterrorist operation in Aleppo will
> conclude in the next few hours."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
In fact, as the previous quote from Matthew Rycroft indicates, reports
reaching the BBC and other media sources say that Sunnis who "hand
themselves over" to the Syrian army authorities are most likely to be
immediately shot. In fact, we can't believe any garbage that comes
out of the mouths of Vitali Churkin, Bashar al-Assad, or Vladimir
Putin. Middle East Eye
Related Articles
****
**** Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)
****
In the past few months, satellite photography provided by Human Rights
Watch has documented that 30,000 ethnic Rohingyas living in Burma's
(Myanmar's) Rakhine state have been left homeless after their homes
and villages have been systematically burned down.
Few people doubt that the perpetrators are Burma's army, conducting
ethnic cleansing . The BBC has broadcast footage of an undercover
road trip through the region, including interviews who says that their
husbands were burnt and killed by soldiers, and that they were
repeatedly raped by soldiers.
Burma's government has been making the ridiculous claim that the
Rohingyas are burning down their own homes and villages to embarrass
the government. This is the kind of garbage that we always get from
Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin, and now from officials of Burma.
So Human Rights Watch has released new imagery that shows a village
being burnt down as multiple military transport vehicles and the
periodic landing of military helicopters move about.
Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the de facto leader
of Burma, is losing her luster as a human rights icon. So far,
Western leaders and media have given her the benefit of the doubt,
suggesting that she was unable to control the army.
But more and more, the question is arising whether she's a full
participant in and supporter of the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas,
having the same hatreds as other Burmese leaders. Human Rights Watch
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad,
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot,
Russia, Vladimir Putin, Iran, Hezbollah, Matthew Rycroft, Samantha Power,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, JFS, Front for the Conquest of Syria,
Free Syrian Army, Russia, Vitali Churkin, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica,
Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas, Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Syria's Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo
- US's Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria's al-Assad, Russia, Iran
- Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)
****
**** Syria's Al-Assad, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah score victory in Aleppo
****
A family of Sunni 'terrorists' flee the fighting in Aleppo (Reuters)
It took four armies, but Syria's president Bashar al-Assad is claiming
victory in recapturing Aleppo from anti-Assad rebels. A year ago,
al-Assad himself said that his army was close to being defeated. But
then his three allies stepped up their military support with people,
weapons and bombs, and al-Assad is finally able to declare victory.
According to Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"Al-Assad's forces, propped up by Russia and Iran,
> have once again redefined horror. They have gone from siege to
> slaughter.
>
> Today the United Nations has received reports that pro-government
> forces have been entering homes in Eastern Aleppo. They have been
> going door to door, executing people on the spot. 82 people
> murdered. 13 of whom were women. 11 were children. None were
> terrorists.
>
> We have heard reports of women committing suicide, in order not to
> be raped. We have heard reports of people being burnt alive. We
> have heard reports that hundreds of men have disappeared fleeing
> Aleppo, taken by the regime. All these reports evoke the darkest
> days of the history of the United Nations.
>
> When it happened before, we said never again. Well, it is
> happening again, today."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
As I've been writing for a long time, Syria's president Bashar
al-Assad is the worst genocidal monster so far in this century. He
continues a line of monsters from the previous century that include
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and others.
The civil war in Syria was caused by al-Assad when he unleashed his
army and air force against peaceful protesters in 2011. Up to that
point, Turkey and Saudi Arabia were friendly with al-Assad. Things
really turned around in August 2011, when al-Assad launched a massive
military assault on a large, peaceful Palestinian refugee camp in
Latakia, filled with tens of thousands of women and children
Palestinians.
This attack alone shows that al-Assad's fight is not with
"terrorists," but with innocent Sunni civilians. Al-Assad is a member
of a Shia Alawite clan that has historically fought many wars with
Sunnis. To al-Assad, Sunni civilians are nothing but cockroaches to
be exterminated.
Al-Assad's genocidal extermination campaign on these "cockroaches" has
been a geopolitical disaster. Tens of thousands of young Sunnis
traveled to Syria to fight al-Assad, creating the so-called Islamic
State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). Syrians themselves formed the
"moderate" Free Syrian Army (FSA), or else joined al-Qaeda linked
Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front, now Jabhat Fateh al-Sham or JFS).
Millions of Syrians were killed or displaced, and well over a million
of them have fled to Europe to escape the violence.
Bashar al-Assad has the delusional view that after capturing Aleppo,
the war will quickly end. Al-Assad required three other armies to
capture Aleppo. Al-Assad started the civil war not because rebels
were taking up arms, but because civilians were peacefully protesting.
If civilians begin peacefully protesting again, will al-Assad attack
them again, and ask those three other armies to come back? UK Government and ARA News (Syria)
Related Articles
- UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura predicts total destruction of Aleppo by Christmas (07-Oct-2016)
- Syria's al-Assad goes for the kill, turning Aleppo and civilians to bloody rubble (24-Sep-2016)
****
**** US's Samantha Power makes excoriating attack on Syria's al-Assad, Russia, Iran
****
Many people, especially in the Mideast, blame al-Assad's geopolitical
disaster on inaction by the Barack Obama administration, especially
Obama's "red line" flip-flop on intervening when al-Assad used Sarin
gas on his own innocent civilians. It's impossible to know what the
outcome of intervention at that time would have been, but many people
believe that the worse of the genocide would have been avoided.
In fact, the Obama administration and many Western administrations
went farther, and avoided saying anything that might appear as a
criticism of al-Assad, Russia or Iran. However, several years of
built-up anger seemed to explode at the UN Security Council on
Tuesday, with the excoriating remarks of American's UN ambassador
Samantha Power:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, three member
> states, behind the conquest of and carnage in Aleppo. You bear
> responsibility for these atrocities by rejecting UN ICRC
> evacuation efforts, you are signaling to those militia who are
> massacring innocents to keep doing what they are doing. Denying
> or obfuscating the facts, as you will do today, saying up is down,
> black is white, will not absolve you. When one day there is a
> full accounting of the horrors committed in this assault of Aleppo
> - and that day will come sooner or later -- you will not be able
> to say you did know what is happening, you will not be able to say
> you were not involved.
>
> We all know what was happening, and we all know you were involved.
> Aleppo will join the ranks of those events in world history that
> define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later.
> Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and now Aleppo.
>
> To the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran, your forces and proxies are
> carrying out these crimes. Your barrel bombs and mortars and
> airstrikes have allowed the militia in Aleppo to encircle tens of
> thousands of civilians in your ever tightening noose.
>
> It is your noose. Three member states of the UN contributing to a
> noose around civilians. It should shame you. Instead, by all
> appearances, it is emboldening you. You are plotting your next
> assault. Are you truly incapable of shame? Is there literally
> nothing that can shame you?
>
> Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a
> child, that gets under your skin? That just creeps you out a
> little bit? Is there nothing you will not lie about, or
> justify?"<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitali Churkin, responded as if he were
talking about another place altogether:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The vast majority of the former members of the
> illegal armed groups that have handed themselves over to the
> authorities as a result of the amnesty and have gone through the
> procedures have been returned to their families. The most
> important thing is, the counterterrorist operation in Aleppo will
> conclude in the next few hours."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
In fact, as the previous quote from Matthew Rycroft indicates, reports
reaching the BBC and other media sources say that Sunnis who "hand
themselves over" to the Syrian army authorities are most likely to be
immediately shot. In fact, we can't believe any garbage that comes
out of the mouths of Vitali Churkin, Bashar al-Assad, or Vladimir
Putin. Middle East Eye
Related Articles
- US increasingly expresses total disgust with Syria regime for Bashar al-Assad's atrocities (21-Sep-2016)
- Syria's civilians fear worse violence from US-Russia 'ceasefire' agreement (11-Sep-2016)
****
**** Human Rights Watch reveals more ethnic cleansing imagery from Burma (Myanmar)
****
In the past few months, satellite photography provided by Human Rights
Watch has documented that 30,000 ethnic Rohingyas living in Burma's
(Myanmar's) Rakhine state have been left homeless after their homes
and villages have been systematically burned down.
Few people doubt that the perpetrators are Burma's army, conducting
ethnic cleansing . The BBC has broadcast footage of an undercover
road trip through the region, including interviews who says that their
husbands were burnt and killed by soldiers, and that they were
repeatedly raped by soldiers.
Burma's government has been making the ridiculous claim that the
Rohingyas are burning down their own homes and villages to embarrass
the government. This is the kind of garbage that we always get from
Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin, and now from officials of Burma.
So Human Rights Watch has released new imagery that shows a village
being burnt down as multiple military transport vehicles and the
periodic landing of military helicopters move about.
Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the de facto leader
of Burma, is losing her luster as a human rights icon. So far,
Western leaders and media have given her the benefit of the doubt,
suggesting that she was unable to control the army.
But more and more, the question is arising whether she's a full
participant in and supporter of the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas,
having the same hatreds as other Burmese leaders. Human Rights Watch
Related Articles
- Asian jihadists become radicalized by Burma's (Myanmar's) Rohingya slaughter (07-Dec-2016)
- UN: Burma (Myanmar) committing 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingyas (29-Nov-2016)
- Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
- Buddhist violence against Muslims in Burma/Myanmar continues to spread (03-Oct-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad,
Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot,
Russia, Vladimir Putin, Iran, Hezbollah, Matthew Rycroft, Samantha Power,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, JFS, Front for the Conquest of Syria,
Free Syrian Army, Russia, Vitali Churkin, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica,
Burma, Myanmar, Rohingyas, Rakhine state, Aung San Suu Kyi
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
