Syria 2011

Some days ago, an eight-year-old boy was found in the sewer in Homs, dead. He had been tortured. News :  - Amnesty International and the Standby Task Forces are trying to get some picture of what's happening in Syria through a satellite (article in french below) - The opposition is asking for a no-fly zone Arrests, kidnappings and rapes A lot of intellectuals have recently been arrested and killed in Syria : teachers, doctors, engineers, lawers, writers,... Besides, it's now very unsafe for women to walk by themselves in some cities, a lot of them have been kidnapped and then raped or tortured, for example in Homs, Daraa and Douma. See  here  for the murder of a nuclear engineer. Videos The pianist Malek Jandali's family has been beaten after he played piano during a demonstration in front of the White House :  here Demonstration in Hama :  here Security forces arresting children :  here English Farmers' planes sprayed chemical pesticide on civil...

Why did the death toll stay at 2700 for weeks ? We all know it has overwhelmed 3000 long ago, and only if we omit all the ones who simply disappeared. It appears to have even overwhelmed 5000... More information  here . News :  Al Rastan is bombed Zaynab Al Hosni Official facebook page :  here The case of Zeinab Al Hosni :  here Video of what remains of her body (...) :  here Video of her brother's body :  here Testimony of her second brother (video subtitled) :  here Attacks against syrian protestors in foreign countries The 26st August, some people were attacked during a demonstration against the syrian government in Paris. The attackers and the three victims were taken to the police office ; after their deposition, the victims were released. Out of the attackers, six turned out to have to diplomatic passport and were immediately released. They followed the victims and attacked them again with baseball bats ; the two guys pushed the woman i...

Funny slogan about the killing of donkeys :  here Work in respect of the syrian martyrs (doesn't work at present) :  here Videos Report about syrian revolution (english - about 20 minutes) :  here

A protestor wears Syria, Libya, Yemen and Palestinia's colours during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen :  here (facebook link) Unrest As I wrote before, syrian families don't know anymore what to do : send their children to school, not knowing wether they're safe or not, or keeping them home and maybe having to pay 1'000 dollars. More than that, the authorities can take the name of the students who don't go to school and list them as activists, which means they can be arrested anytime. And the worst is women are not safe anymore, if they're seen walking in the streets alone, the chabbiha or the security forces may kidnap them and rape them, as they do to the activists' sisters. As they've done to Zaynab Al Hosni. See  here  an article about the students' demonstrations. French ambassador in Syria The French ambassador in Syria, Eric Chevallier, has been attacked in the city of Damascus, probably because he went to four schools there to express his...

New slogans : "The people want the excecution of the president" and "No school until the regime falls" Ali Farzat Ali Farzat is a famous syrian cartoonist who got kidnapped and badly beaten about a month ago. Beside other damage, his hands got broken, in order to prevent him from publishing more politicaly engaged drawings. Video of his work here , his website here (got hacked few hours ago). Military intervention Some people are again talking of a military intervention in Syria. It still isn't a good idea and would without any doubt turn badly. What people can do is send back ambassadors, stop any trading with Syria (oil, Aleppo's soap,...) and try again to send journalists there to tell about what's happening ; besides, the UNO should send observators in Syria, impose sanctions and bring the syrian government before the criminal court. Videos What is the syrian foreign minister, Al Muaallem, doing in Austria ? Isn't it forbidden for...

The problem of school Last Sunday, school started again in Syria. Half of the children didn't go and some of them demonstrated instead. A rumour says that the government has announced that each person who doesn't go to school would have to pay a thousand dollars. Most of them don't have this sum, but the main problem is that some schools got fired. What can people do, then ? Students demonstrated in Kanaker , Houran (Daraa) , Ma'r Shawreen  and Ma'ret Mesrin in Idlib  and Hama today. In Homs , the security forces opened fire on the kids' protest and in Damascus they surrounded schools. Vengeance on family Kidnapping and vengeance on family member has become common in Syria (french article about it below). Some months ago, a pianist has played a song for Syria in front of the White House ; his family paid, as we can see here with the pictures of his parents. Video Violence of the army towards demonstrators (some scenes are hard to see, particularl...

Assessment after six months of killing After more than six months of conflict right now, human associations say about 2'700 people have been killed. Let's remind ourselves that these 2'700 are only the ones whose death has been official, many more have simply disappeared and some others just died without anyone being able to report it officially. Accounts on the last few days here and here . English What will the UNO do now ? With Russia encouraging dialogue between the government and the opposition (it already happened last week, and it was a dialogue between president Assad and his own people, and not the opposition) it becomes hard for the UN Council to make decisions on which everyone agrees. See more here . Français Les Syriens ne sont à l'abris nulle part, comme on a déjà pu le voir avec l'attaque de manifestants syriens à Paris par des diplomates eux aussi syriens. De même, en début août a eu lieu au Liban une attaque à l'arme blanche contre des man...

"There are two options, the Syrian said. Either the regime goes or the people go." Red-Croissant Wednesday 7th Septembre, a team of the Red-Croissant went to rescue a wounded man in Al-Warsheh, Homs. On their way back, they got attacked, 31 bullets reached the ambulance, wounding three volunteers out of five and the already wounded man too. Al-Hakam Draq Al-Sibaï, one of the volunteers, died the 16th September. His family had tried to take him to the AUB Hospital in Beirut but the security forces had stopped him 9 hours at the border. See him and the ambulance here . See the medical report here (english at the end of the page). Commentary : Attacking an ambulanceman is a crime against humanity, attacking a volunteer from the Red-Croissant should be considerated the same way. Français : le CICR condamne le manque de respect pour les services médicaux ici . Daraa's children Remember how everything began ? Fifteen children got arrested and tortured after having writte...

English Exiles keep rising up online : here "In order to eliminate their reason to stay in Turkey, it is obligatory to remove the reasons that caused them escape from Syria [...]" : here Six months of conflict : here Français Des "hacktivivistes" créent un réseau sécurisé : ici Six mois de conflit : ici Commentaire : Attention, les minorités sortent en même pourcentage que le reste de la population, mais du fait qu'elles sont minoritaires elles sont moins remarquées. Un régime par nature impossible à réformer : ici

Videos  Activists risk the life of their relatives, even out of Syria : here Tanks preparing to enter Inkhil, Nawa, Harra, Nemer and Jasim : here Want to see horrors ? here English Human rights group want the arab league to suspend Syria's membership : here Comment : It would probably be a good idea to apply this to the UNO and to send back the syrian ambassadors (and consuls) to Syria too, to show the government is not legitimate anymore. Red Crescent workers attacked : here Syrian activist Ghiyath Matar's death : here Français Pourquoi Ghiyath Matar, Ali Farzat, Rafah Nached,... ? : ici Risques pour les manifestants même à l'étranger : ici

Sorry for the absence, I couldn't do it anymore. Let's just start again with videos and documentation, summaries sometimes. See the name of this blog ? Syria 2011. Let's do anything possible to stop this slaughter before the end of the year ! Videos Animals being attacked (proof that the security forces and the army attack anyone - even animals, who are obviously not against the government) : here  and here (facebook link) Overview of these last six months : here Half-dead guy (hard...) :  here Guy tortured : here  (15 minutes film) and here TO SEE - terrorists in Syria : here TO SEE - "testimony" : here Français Explication de la situation actuelle par l'histoire de l'opposition syrienne : ici