Last News - 23.03.12
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Homs is still being bombed, mainly in Al-Khaldiye ; Hama is being bombed too. The 21st, Russian anti-terrorists arrived in Syria (from Russian source), Russia denied. The 22nd, the Security Council made a declaration to support Annan's plan (in french below). And while we keep talking, Assad keeps killing. The Free Syrian Army is trying to fight back, but they don't have enough weapons to do so. Ammos said she was concerned the Syrian regime did not let its people have any access to medical aid. Assad's wife, mother, sister and sister-in-law have been added to the European sanction list, just as five others.
Otherwise the Syrian regime accused the FC Barcelona of "terrorism" and of helping the Syrian protesters via the way they move on the field. LOL. (more in french below)
Asma Al-Assad and eight other people, including Assad's mother, sister and sister-in-law, have finally been sanctioned too, like about 150 others before them : here
Robert Fisk
In an interview on ABC television, KERRY O'BRIEN asked this Question to Robert Fisk of the Independent : “When the dust finally settles on the Arab uprising, or whatever you might call it, I wonder how much democracy it will be seen to have delivered.”
ROBERT FISK answered : When the dust settles on what I call "The Arab Awakening", you and I will have died of old age. This is not something that's going to fit into the deadlines of ABC television or me and my deadlines every day for the London Independent, and it's not going to fit into our lifetime.
History goes on forever. Democracy of a kind, yes. What people are asking for in this region is not democracy - though they'd like some of it - and it's not human rights, though they want a lot of that. What they ask for is justice and dignity, and they are not the same things. And the question is : Do we in the West intend to give them justice ? Because that means dealing fairly with the Palestinians, with Kashmir, with Lebanon. I'm not sure that's really what we want to do, and that's the question we should be asking. Do we want democracy in the Middle East ? Or do we want a sort of softer version of the various dictators which we've so generously bestowed upon the region in the past, like Mubarak and Gaddafi - when we used to like them !!
Videos
Al Jazeera obtains secret files from Syria : here
English
Death toll since the beginning of the uprising : here
Only official deaths are shown, but about 70'000 at least have simply disappeared.
Activists trying to send aid into Syria from Turkey : here
Français
Déclaration du Conseil de Sécurité : ici
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