He promises
peace and delivers death. So, unless you’re the Grim Reaper, you will always be
disappointed with the Assads. Bet on change for once, and back your bet with
real support to the revolutionaries. Help free Syria!
Yaman Al-Qadri,
19 year-old 2nd year dermatology student at Damascus University, she
was severely bwaten and arrested today by Assad loyalists. Over 2,000 people were
detained today in Damascus and suburbs
Homs City, Khaldiyeh
Neighborhood, November 3, 2011
Thursday November 3,
2011
22 were killed in Homs
(19) and Idlib (3) and thousands were arrested (mostly in the
rural areas of Damascus) a day after Assad accepted an Arab League
Initiative calling for halt on violent crackdown against pro-democracy
protesters. The arrests were haphazard and seem designed to preempt a possible
march towards inner Damascus on Friday.
A statement by the Free
Syrian Army, which had earlier said that it will abide by the terms of
Initiative, noted that FSA troops were forced to confront Assad loyalists in
Damascus, succeeding in killing the Colonel that was conducting
the sweep operations and several of his top lieutenants. Several loyalists were
said to have been arrested as well. In statements to the press, Col. Riyad
Al-Ass’aad, head of the FSA, acknowledged that his group does indeed have
contacts with members of the Syrian National Council, but said that
Burhan Ghalioun, titular head of the SNC, is not one of them, and that the FSA
has not received any support from the SNC.
Links
Employees of Area SpA, a surveillance company
based outside Milan, are installing the system under the direction of Syrian
intelligence agents, who’ve pushed the Italians to finish, saying they urgently
need to track people, a person familiar with the project says. The Area
employees have flown into Damascus in shifts this year as the violence has
escalated, says the person, who has worked on the system for Area.
Note: Obviously companies and individuals who
are exporting surveillance technology and know-how to the Assads are aware of
the political situation in the country and the human rights abuses perpetrated
by the Assads, not unless they live on the Moon and are complete idiots. As
such, they should be held legally and financially liable for any harm done to
activists who got detained, or worse, as a result of the activities of these
companies and individuals, and should, therefore, be sued by affected parties.
Meanwhile, local authorities should open an investigation into these matters:
economic sanctions are not what is at issue here, but whether crimes against
humanity in Syria have been facilitated by citizens of Europe and the U.S. I
trust the international character of these crimes will not detract from the
need for accountability.
Indeed, my colleague at the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies, Mark Dubowitz, is right when he says in the article:
“Any company selling monitoring surveillance
technology to the Assad regime is complicit in human rights crimes.”
Threatening
the Assads with isolation means nothing to them: they don’t fear isolation. In
fact, at this stage, this is exactly what they are angling for: they would like
nothing more than for the world to isolate them and forget about them so they
can carry out their crackdown without the headache of foreign pressures and condemnations.
Indeed, the Assad have been there before at least twice: once under the rule of
the father and once under the rule of the son – and they survived, and the
world reengaged them at their own terms.
Only
aggressive engagement can defeat the Assads. Yes the initial costs of this
strategy will be high both in human and material terms, but down the road, it
will prove far less costly than the current passivity, which is more or less
the default position for the international community when dealing with the
malfeasance of this criminal dynasty.
For
years, decades in fact, analysts have been giving us reasons for why the Assads
should be left alone, this
article in the Globe & Mail is the latest take, how many innocents
have died throughout all this period? Thousands! Thousands have died so that a
status quo based on brainwashing, lies, theft, killing, misery, lack of
development, lack of progress and lack of hope can be maintained. Getting rid
of the Assads will be a messy affair, although perhaps not as messy as some
analysts believe, but it will be worth it at the end. The Assads provided with
the certainty of misery and mediocrity, their removal will provide with an
uncertainty that might just allow for some growth down the road. That’s worth
fighting for. That’s worth all sacrifice.
Occupied Syria
The city of Homs in the Homs Province is
under occupation (scenes from the campus) http://youtu.be/8SFV_cZTvyw
, http://youtu.be/iA_CoXRHYME Deir
Baalbah http://youtu.be/VD0EQVRe5aw
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/WlcHNLG9b1k
Qoussour (checkpoints) http://youtu.be/s9Q83-pG-QY
Bayadah http://youtu.be/ta_ciGfif_A
The Houleh region in Hama Province under
occupation http://youtu.be/7T1oQ5aj2_I
So is Talbisseh http://youtu.be/b62Nr0frwB8
, http://youtu.be/SiLSeq_zMds
checkpoints http://youtu.be/kbeUSP0oqIo
The town of Jassem in Deraa/Hauran
Province under occupation http://youtu.be/bwXtMGQxIS8
, http://youtu.be/XPZVlsF2vMI Also Sanamein
http://youtu.be/l8u8k70odwU Harrah
http://youtu.be/evTHMfmL2bM , http://youtu.be/fa_gsNnRGrI Deraa
City http://youtu.be/TwFPgyXoS2U
The town of Madeeq in Hama Province under
occupation http://youtu.be/g9dBSwdMS6Q
, http://youtu.be/VWnPtzD28Gs So is Sahel
Al-Ghab region (Qastoun) http://youtu.be/y7LAffvfJYU
Hama City http://youtu.be/bUuEXNgwKgg
Kafar Nabboudeh http://youtu.be/7gaWd7gop24
The rural areas around Damascus under
occupation (Ain Terma) http://youtu.be/i56Pcudrr7Y
Hamouriyeh http://youtu.be/4TVfFDxOP5g
Arbeen http://youtu.be/QH_CTfkjHsQ
Zamalka (checkpoints) http://youtu.be/Zw8nSll6iao
Kanaker (checkpoints and armored vehicles) http://youtu.be/IaFJpVylVto
The War in Homs
HOMS CITY: Baba Amr the war continues http://youtu.be/ix7LzmuHrKU , http://youtu.be/5OpYCxCAY1s , http://youtu.be/qbwUuU5jYEk
Meanwhile, in Dablan Neighborhood, locals
take to the streets in support of Baba Amr http://youtu.be/THbuXkHJ5ek
so do locals in Karm Al-Zeitun http://youtu.be/tpboK3XLDCY
Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/0U18TBOkqec
Bab Dreib a funeral http://youtu.be/4ObAIsn9_l0
for http://youtu.be/13pi4FnY4Nk Bayadah
a martyr http://youtu.be/BMpAm5jTSrg another
http://youtu.be/yUJWCXTtN6I Khaldiyeh
a martyr http://youtu.be/fOPZEtkvCBM another
http://youtu.be/XxDBoWnIGEI a funeral
http://youtu.be/LEVgEfPrZ4g Deir
Baalbah a martyr killed execution style http://youtu.be/_D6ub1hjf4E Another
martyr http://youtu.be/YeeEJks3YQc Karm
Al-Zeitun a martyr http://youtu.be/MS3NIUKu-DU
Baba Amr a martyr http://youtu.be/FmTXYZUcaVo
Nighttime demonstrations Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/03QsdEoLHNk Ghoutah
http://youtu.be/6bU24lAsvec Bab Houd
Signs “The Assad regime and the Arab League two sides of the same coin” “46
people died since the acceptance” http://youtu.be/b8ncyZgUbSw
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/2sgKoVllyrs
, http://youtu.be/02O8esacytM Wa’er
http://youtu.be/BR7QdEqI6iw Bab
Dreib http://youtu.be/PNXLt9S-qF8
Karm Al-Shami http://youtu.be/C9GbcyiUmRo
Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/a6VovxBuMms
, http://youtu.be/sClaezH1ZbM Qoussour
http://youtu.be/P65BHJztLWo
HAMA: Karnaz http://youtu.be/BJYRucEpMss , http://youtu.be/t7L0laqsad8 Hama City
Sign “Should the regime honor the Initiative, expect a million strong
demonstration in Aassy Square” http://youtu.be/pWuQBBogMyA
Elsewhere in the city http://youtu.be/F5zsMY15Gv8
Taybat Al-Imam http://youtu.be/Eg8PgjF-QBw
Hilfaya http://youtu.be/CvDwXW44sqU
IDLIB: Idlib City http://youtu.be/vGbJ4OMe8H0 Sarmeen
http://youtu.be/nwlfjrfeV8w Khan
Shaikhoon http://youtu.be/EBI2x2VHAHU
, http://youtu.be/2DTbY331fPs Jarjanaz
http://youtu.be/oO9d9bforzI Jabal
Al-Zawiyeh http://youtu.be/EVIl1hF7H8E
Binnish http://youtu.be/_-bxswdmeEg
HOMS PROVINCE: Houleh at night comes under fire
http://youtu.be/fSnG1T0NS6E Tadmor
(Palmyra) http://youtu.be/FeF8nVyJcmw
Dar Al-Kabirah a funeral http://youtu.be/vNrI1cf5060
for this martyr http://youtu.be/aLW9FzvhOxw
DERAA/HAURAN: Tseel http://youtu.be/wDNYwqQfrNg Da’el
http://youtu.be/uNf8iXqXqg8 Jassem
http://youtu.be/1taHhdwvgGU Hraak
fuel shortage http://youtu.be/zKxBzCoegGs
Deraa City http://youtu.be/Iqi3S7Y_dQs
DAMASCUS: kerosene and petrol withheld from the
neighborhood of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad as a form of collective punishment http://youtu.be/fxJOMtDYfmQ still people
take to the streets at night http://youtu.be/V7b40aMdSBA
Zamalka http://youtu.be/5XMHxUKUCvI
Zabadani http://youtu.be/R7iTfTqIm0g
Assaly http://youtu.be/s57l9dSHHSw
Harasta http://youtu.be/qBXAyamJeOo
, http://youtu.be/y2yAH-ZH7QM Douma
http://youtu.be/LzVb-K3ReO0 Midan
District (Abu Habel) http://youtu.be/yFVSyqkESS8
Kafar Sousseh http://youtu.be/X0hlWjGWD4Y
Yabroud http://youtu.be/4WqAXd-CXHM
DEIR EZZOR: Qrayah http://youtu.be/5AtS56paCFk , http://youtu.be/yayemuXrSQc , http://youtu.be/qNynmMUufaY and again at
night http://youtu.be/5Uzo1vxEAHs Mayadeen
http://youtu.be/x9PNnEzGhFc
HASSAKEH: Qamishly http://youtu.be/AfKRDIIqlh0 Barzeh
http://youtu.be/61wfNyKaei0
LATTAKIA: Ouaineh burning a poster of Assad http://youtu.be/LzVb-K3ReO0 Qneinees
http://youtu.be/163rBAFOFOs
Student Demonstrations
HOMS PROVINCE: Houleh the scene of several
massacres over the last few days, still children take to the streets after
school shouting “why are you afraid? God is with us” http://youtu.be/-54RvRaRCNo Tadmor
(Palmyra) students remove an Assad poster from the top of their school http://youtu.be/kQESkPUNo5Y
HAMA: Taybat Al-Imam http://youtu.be/Dka_NFJmuXk Kafar
Zita http://youtu.be/XJkMWbH8ZfM
IDLIB: Idlib City students on strike http://youtu.be/NQoYL6k1jWE Kafar
Nabbel Sign “Bashar Al-Assad is a liar” http://youtu.be/zXl2A7zAvlw M’arrat
Hourmah http://youtu.be/SeOr2sO7-84
Haass http://youtu.be/3els09BVoT8
Kafroumah http://youtu.be/iDEoHO4fluk
DERAA/HAURAN: Khirbet Ghazaleh http://youtu.be/c4IeetsWqno Taybah
http://youtu.be/Tptv2BzGltE Deraa
City (University) http://youtu.be/r2nt0i4INQ0
, http://youtu.be/pWGlImX5UR0 Nawa
http://youtu.be/AhzidhKxWsc
DAMASCUS: Qanawat http://youtu.be/tO8YvJ2AIwE Qarrah
http://youtu.be/zPyp8_zLbvY Barzeh
http://youtu.be/JeMZTS7NzcA Dmeir
http://youtu.be/cshXD3Dty8U Douma
http://youtu.be/b3KShEs1Izc
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