The massacre at Aleppo University will not deter her
students from remaining active supporters of the revolutionary ethos and nonviolent
ethics. Some dig in their heels, others dig up their graves – the Revolution goes
on.
A before-and-during
for 16-year old Tariq Shahoud. This picture was smuggled from the security
headquarters where he is still held. Children like Tariq are often used to blackmail
their parents, becoming source for income for security officers.
Tuesday January
15, 2013
Today’s
Death Toll: 237, including
15 children and 10 women. 99 martyrs were reported in Aleppo, most of them due
to the shelling of the University; 65 in Homs most of them in Houla and Hasouba;
31 in Damascus and its Suburbs, 17 in Hama, 15 in Daraa, 6 in Idlib, 2 in Deir
Ezzor and 2 in Raqqa (LCCs).
Points
of Random Shelling: 351: including 24 points that were shelled by warplanes, 5 point using
cluster bombs,1 point with barrel bombs, 138 points using mortar, 120 points
with heavy caliber artillery and 62 using rockets and missiles (LCCs).
Clashes: 143 (LCCs).
News
Blasts
at Aleppo university kill more than 80 people, activists say Anti-regime
activists trying to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime said his forces
carried out two airstrikes. Syrian state media, for its part, blamed rebels
fighting the Syrian government, saying they fired rockets that struck the
campus… The competing narratives of the two blasts at the city’s main
university highlight the difficulty of confirming reports from inside Syria… The
scale of destruction in videos shot at the site, however, suggested more
powerful explosives had been used than the rockets the rebels are known to
possess.
Video
purports to show Syrian officers begging al-Assad for help "I urge
you, Mr. President, are the Syrian officers considered to be nothing and less
important than some Iranian citizens?" Raeidi said, his voice cracking,
"Or (does) the foreign policy ... force us to remain victims and remain in
captivity?" He adds, "Thanks for listening."
Mass
Grave Found in Aleppo Amid Fierce Fighting Like so much of the Syrian
civil war, this slice of horror will remain a mystery. One can glean only so
much from the tip of a pallid nose. The bodies would have been buried by now,
with no autopsy or investigation, catalogued only in the minds of those who in
this particular atrocity happened to lose a loved one. As a journalist, I could
do little but snap a few photos. The story, whatever it is, will be entombed
with the victims under a slab of concrete.
Russia
says against referring Syria crisis to war crimes court Permanent U.N.
Security Council member Russia said in a Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday
that an effort by dozens of countries to refer the Syrian crisis to the
International Criminal Court was "ill-timed and counterproductive".
Moscow
suspends consular operations in Aleppo "The operations of the
Russian Federation's Consulate General in Aleppo have been suspended," the
statement said. "Regarding all issues, contact the consular department of
the Russian Embassy in Damascus."
Arming
Syria rebels an option - Hague "Our efforts are directed at a
peaceful political solution. We are sending some practical help to opposition
groups, but not arms, and we have taken no decision to change that, but we do
want the flexibility to change that if necessary," he said.
Report says Assad residing on
warship Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have been living
on a warship, with security provided by Russia, intelligence sources told a Saudi
newspaper.
Syrians
set for ballot in Turkish refugee camps Syrians head to the polls this
week to elect new local administrators from among their peers at refugee camps
in Kilis in southeastern Turkey
Special
Reports
The situation in the war-torn Syrian
city of Aleppo is much less dire than it was a month ago. Food stalls are full
of produce, albeit at much higher prices than before, and the bread crisis has
been somewhat averted. The fighting is now centered on airbases on the
outskirts of the city.
Saladin Brigade, which includes Arab
members in its ranks, says its alliance with Islamists is a way to pay its dues
to the revolution. Its leaders hope to bring down the Assad regime and play an
influential, and moderating, role in a future Syria. “We want a civil,
democratic government which treats everyone equally,” said Colonel Shawqi
Othman, 43, who heads the brigade.
The vast majority of displaced Syrians
now aren't in camps; instead, they're "urban refugees," the IRC said.
And because most of them fled their previous lives with few belongings and
little money, many have built up crushing debt. The IRC heard accounts of
desperate women trading sex for food, children being forced to work in
exploitative or dangerous jobs and families selling girls into early marriage
to reduce household numbers or pay rent.
On January 9th Thaer al-Waqqas, the
local commander of the northern Farouq brigade, was killed in Sarmada, his
hometown. Locals say he was shot by a Tunisian fighter. Mr Waqqas was involved
in the killing in September of Firas al-Absi, aka Abu Mohammed, a Saudi-born
Syrian jihadi who had teamed up with foreign fighter friends from Libya to
Afghanistan… The brigades have always competed for their members' loyalty and
for turf; now they must also jockey for the support of Syrian civilians who are
beginning to differentiate more strongly between the various groups.
Sooner or later, the war will end and
Syrians will have to sit down and talk about the future of their state. Here's
a roadmap.
“The opposition is in fact helping to
hold the regime together,” said Peter Harling, an analyst with the
International Crisis Group who meets in Syria with people on all sides of the
conflict. “It seems to have no strategy to speak of when it comes to preserving
what’s left of the state, wooing the Alawites within the regime or reaching out
to those who don’t know who to hate most, the regime or the opposition.”
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The Syrian military
used an exotic chemical weapon on rebels during an attack in the city of Homs,
some U.S. officials now believe.
The conclusion —
first reported by Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin and laid out in a secret cable
from the U.S. consul general in Istanbul — contradicts preliminary estimates
made by American officials in the hours after the December 23 strike. But after
interviews with Syrian activists, doctors, and defectors, American diplomats in
Turkey have apparently rendered a different verdict. It’s important to note,
however, that this was the conclusion of a single consulate within the State
Department, and there is still wide disagreement within the U.S. government
over whether the Homs attack should be characterized as a chemical weapons
incident….
Something horrible
happened in Homs on December 23. Exactly what that horrible event was still
isn’t clear.
The cable, signed
by the U.S. consul general in Istanbul, Scott Frederic Kilner, and sent to
State Department headquarters in Washington last week, outlined the results of
the consulate's investigation into reports from inside Syria that chemical
weapons had been used in the city of Homs on Dec. 23... To date, the
administration has not initiated any major policy changes in response to the
classified cable, but a Deputies Committee meeting of top administration
officials is scheduled for this week.
Video Highlights
We are the children of Syria – A video http://youtu.be/Of9dkAVzaFw
Aleppo University Bombing: First video showing the second
missile hit http://youtu.be/SFigDPLRmu4
“Video filmed from a distance seconds after the University complex was attacked
by Syrian Military Aircraft, trail of jet fighter is seen clearly in the sky.” http://youtu.be/Ge501gDA6y8 Aftermath http://youtu.be/Ej4ITWVeWKQ , http://youtu.be/EOK5IxuJqHw
In the town of Maadan, Raqqah, rebels shell pro-regime positions
forcing them to withdraw http://youtu.be/kP9qtHQpoLw
, http://youtu.be/5YL7d8F9OWo , http://youtu.be/WG7qlzvaeok
In Houleh, Homs, shelling left many children injured and terrified
http://youtu.be/rU8EXXlwDSI , http://youtu.be/Yy2NY1PYwNE and leaves some
dead http://youtu.be/ez_LOiXpsOo , http://youtu.be/KEIdC1qVQJA Anger and
grief of locals as the bodies of their loved ones lay strewn in the streets http://youtu.be/_7I94qfI8e8
The pounding of the town of Rastan, Homs, continues http://youtu.be/4xCTmbpRNQQ , http://youtu.be/tscNnPW-P9M Talbisseh
is pounded with incendiary cluster bombs http://youtu.be/iWnuICP_6T8
, http://youtu.be/wGpAb4M6v38
In Elbab, Aleppo local look for bodies under the rubble in the
aftermath of a bombing raid http://youtu.be/geBxy6nqQIo
, http://youtu.be/QfBYULRwRVg
The pounding of the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, continues
http://youtu.be/_AEZSGDWuaE , http://youtu.be/J-2omdmU-Gc Some of today’s
dead http://youtu.be/MZroQ7oP1uo
The pounding touches neighborhoods inside Damascus City as well, including
Qaboun http://youtu.be/D_soOOC_tXM
, http://youtu.be/TaiwovsvS_U
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