Syria 2011

UN Monitors and shelling in Hama As Assad forces started to shell Hama on Monday the 23rd April 2012, the demonstrators started a general strike to protest against it. At least 50 persons died only on Monday. Last Wednesday, the 25th April, the shelling caused the death of at least 70 people including 13 children and 16 women. The same day, Annan reported for the first time to the Security Council ; the report said that the Syrian regime had not removed all the weapons and tanks from the cities, and that the persons who went to talk with the monitors were targeted afterwards , adding the monitors were very afraid for their lifes. The Assad regime dressed the army members as policemen because, according to the Annan plan, it was supposed to exchange them for policemen. The 26th April 2012, the monitors, who at the present are 15, announced 2 of them would stay in Hama and 2 others in Daraa, as 6 are already in Homs. The regime organised 4 explosions today in Syria, in Dam

News - Nouvelles A syrian woman recently decided Assad would have fallen and Syria would be free on April 24th, which is pretty soon, so we need help : think it will happen, often, all the time, think that in two days Syria will be free. It's our own ultimatum. That's very funny to see how people talk about a "fragile cease-fire", when we all know there never was any : there's no half cease-fire, there is one or there is not. It's like bombing : you do not half bomb a city, you bomb it or you don't. That's really beautiful to see how people of  Homs  and  Damascus  (and probably of every city in Syria) are trying to protect the observers during the shootings when the UN is not doing anything for them. And the worst is probably that Assad and his wife pretended to help Homs by  volunteering  at an aid center... Otherwise the situation is getting worse there, about 500 children are in jail right now, and the regime is arresting more and more

UN monitoring mission - Mission des observateurs de l'ONU Here you can watch  25 minutes of film  to discuss the utility or not of the monitoring mission in Syria, when we all know it won't work. Even Kosovo in 1999 got more UN aid than we did : they got 3500 armed (police)men, they're only 2 millions. We're 23 millions and we only get 30 unarmed observers. So far they're only 8 (6 at first), the others are yet to come ; their former chief, Novergian General Mood, has already quitted, saying he'd never ever come back to Syria. He's been replaces by the Marrocan Colonel Himmiche. A resolution to send 250 observers is yet to be voted by the UN, but Switzerland has already announced it was ready to send six men. Today's news : Syrians are demonstrating around the monitors in Damascus ! Syria violences continue despite UN arrival (video) :  here Fighting in Syria as UN monitors go to work (video) :  here Français

Because we need confidence... the video  here  and  here  with inspiring images I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible : jew, gentile, black men, white... We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.  The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.  Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate,  has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in ; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machi

English : Tuesday  17th April  will be the  66th anniversary of the Syrian Independence , so the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues and the Human Rights League in France have organized an event called  "the white wave" . That day,  at 7 p.m. and until 7:30 p.m ., these organizations invite people to hold a  white banner/paper with the word "STOP"  written on it ; please feel free to do so and organize an event in your area of the world :) ! More about this event in french  here  and a  here  (and  here  is the event in Geneva, Switzerland) About the cease-fire The "peace" plan is more like a "rest in peace" plan... A cease-fire was  supposed to become effective the 10th April  2012 in Syria, but as excpected, that did not happen. The UN gave Syria a  new deadline , the 12th April, yesterday. And yesterday in the morning, things had  apparently calmed down  in Syria,  except in Homs  where the old part of the city was still being

News After casualties increased just before UN deadline (10th April 2012), the Syrian government announced it would not pull military forces from the cities because it was "afraid armed terrorist groups would commit attacks". Assad's asking for written guarantees that the opposition will give its weapons back and that it will not take back the cities the army would leave. But what does "take back" mean ? The opposition represents the people, these cites' inhabitants. Assad's also asking Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for guarantees that they will not arm the opposition. More  here  and  here A lot of European people are afraid islamist groups may take the power after the fall of the regime. But lately, an islamist group gave 70 millions dollars to violence victims, so don't be surprised if they're appreciated. They're appreciated because no one else is helping. So do the same, help us !  More  here French version Les violences ont empir

Annan plan Here is Annan's six-point-plan, if you've not seen it : 1. Syrian-led political process to address the aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people 2. UN-supervised cessation of armed violence in all its forms by all parties to protect civilians 3. All parties to ensure provision of humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting, and implement a daily two-hour humanitarian pause 4. Authorities to intensify the pace and scale of release of arbitrarily detained persons 5. Authorities to ensure freedom of movement throughout the country for journalists 6. Authorities to respect freedom of association and the right to demonstrate peacefully I don't know about you, but I don't think Assad will follow any of them, even though he agreed to (and even though that would make him look like the good guy in front of the International Community). Add to this that  there's no timetable included ... And the second point asks for the cessation of