Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria

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KPO

Thursday, April 7, 2016 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:

While I know who is bombing who and we are generally if not more on the same side of the argument, there is no way to know who was in that vehicle and where they were from what we see.

That said it is very dramatic to see the windshield shatter the way it did.

You're right, I should have sorted out the information between what was known and what was merely 'reported' before I posted it (if I hadn't been in a hurry I would have). That said, you were able to watch the video and tell for yourself the limitations of what was deducible. Would that everyone on these boards had that mental skill.

Meanwhile: "Russian claims on Syria airstrikes 'inaccurate on grand scale', says report"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/russian-claims-syria-airs
trikes-inaccurate-report

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Russian claims to have mostly bombed Islamic State targets during its Syrian campaign were wildly out of step with reality, according to a report using aerial surveillance, crowdsourcing and other open source techniques.

The report says the almost six months of Russian airstrikes up until the 27 February ceasefire caused only peripheral damage to Isis.

What some of us were saying all along...

KPO

Thursday, April 7, 2016 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160323-why-are-people-so-incredibly-
gullible

Why Are People So Incredibly Gullible?

Based on the research to date, Newman suggests our gut reactions swivel around just five simple questions:

Does a fact come from a credible source?
Do others believe it?
Is there plenty of evidence to support it?
Is it compatible with what I believe?
Does it tell a good story?

It’s always worth asking whether you have thought carefully about the things you are reading and hearing. Or are you just being a cognitive miser, persuaded by biased feelings rather than facts? Some of your dearest opinions may have no more substance than the great banana hoax of the year 2000.

An interesting article kiki, I suggest you post it in one of Sig's threads like the "Freedom in Ukraine" thread. There you will see a real cognitive miser in action.

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Obviously you didn't read the article. It explains how 'source' and 'number of people who believe' are irrelevant to the truth or falsity of a claim.

"Source" is irrelevant to the truth of a claim? Haha you wish. Obviously you didn't understand the article.

THGRRI

Sunday, April 10, 2016 8:21 PM

1kiki and SIG always misunderstand what they read in print. We all have witnessed that first hand in the way they misrepresent and butcher what the rest of us post here.

KPO

Friday, April 15, 2016 4:09 AM

More on the top secret documents and photos, smuggled out of Syria, tying the Assad regime to mass torture and killings - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/bashar-al-assads-war-crim
es-exposed

“when the day of justice arrives, we’ll have much better evidence than we’ve had anywhere since Nuremberg.”

KPO

Friday, April 15, 2016 7:07 PM

Not quite a war crime, but despicable still - How Iran rounds up vulnerable Afghans and enlists them to fight for Assad in Syria: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36035095

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As the five-year conflict in Syria grinds on, BBC Persian has found evidence that Iran is sending thousands of Afghan men to fight alongside Syrian government forces.

The men, who are mainly ethnic Hazaras, are recruited from impoverished and vulnerable migrant communities in Iran, and sent to join a multi-national Shia Muslim militia - in effect a "Foreign Legion" - that Iran has mobilised to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Many have since fled the battlefield and joined the refugee trail to Europe.

In a small town in Germany, we meet "Amir", an Afghan man in his early twenties. He was born to refugee parents in Isfahan, Iran, and is now himself an asylum seeker in Europe. Like most of the almost three million Afghans in Iran, he lived as a second-class citizen. Without legal residency or identity documents, he found it hard to get an education or a job. Fear of arrest and deportation was a daily reality. It was difficult to move around freely, get a driving license or even buy a Sim card for his mobile phone.

But one day, Amir received an offer that changed everything. "Some Afghans, who were close to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, approached me and my mates at the mosque," he said. "They suggested we go to Syria to help defend the Shia holy shrines from Daesh," he added, using an acronym for the previous name of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). "They said we'd get passports and have an easy life afterwards. We'd be like Iranian citizens and could buy cars, houses..."

Amir was drafted into the Fatemioun Brigade, an all-Afghan unit commanded by Revolutionary Guards officers. The training, he says, was very short - a fortnight of tactical movement and basic weapons handling - and conducted in strict secrecy. "The night we entered the base at Qarchak, near Varamin in Tehran province, all our mobile phones were confiscated - and after two weeks' basic training, we were driven to the airport in buses with blacked-out windows," he said.

Despite having no ,passports the Afghan recruits were flown directly to Syria on specially chartered jets. "Everything was taken care of by the Revolutionary Guards," he said. "When we arrived, we saw the bullet holes and shell damage. It was a war zone. What I did and saw there affects me still. I can't sleep - I get angry for no reason."

...

As we travelled across Europe, we met many Afghan ex-fighters like Amir, and all told similar stories. In the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, a clearly traumatised teenage veteran describes how Afghan Fatemioun fighters were used as first-wave shock troops and were effectively disposable.

"Sometimes we had no supplies, no water, no bread - hungry and thirsty in the middle of the desert," he told us. "We were light infantry and we'd have to walk 20-30km (12.5-19 miles) to face the enemy and then fight them. "We would take ground at great cost and then have to hand it over to the Syrian soldiers. But they would usually lose it back to Daesh after a day or two. "One night we were surrounded in an orchard. They fired an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] towards us and I saw my mate blown to pieces, right in front of my eyes. After that, I hated war and started to fear war. "For nights afterwards, I would picture my friend in my head and would think: 'My God, what happened to him!' I was really scared."

...

There are no official figures for how many Afghans Iran has sent to Syria - or how many have been killed there.Human Rights Watch recently estimated as many as 10,000 Afghans may have been recruited by the Revolutionary Guards.

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KPO

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 7:17 PM

Rebel town that stood up to Al-Qaeda has its main market place bombed by Assad, scores killed:

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It was unclear whether the raid was carried out by government warplanes or aircraft operated by Russia, which intervened militarily in the Syrian conflict last year to bolster its ally, President Bashar al-Assad, against rebel forces. The United States backs Assad’s moderate opponents.

Footage posted by activists on social media, which could not be independently verified, shows Maarat al-Numan’s formerly bustling market area reduced to rubble and smoldering ruins. Other images showed stunned residents limping away from the attacked area, as well as emergency responders carrying away the wounded.

...

Imad Salamey, a political science professor at the Lebanese American University, said Tuesday’s bombings further demonstrate how extremist groups and the Syrian government find common cause in trying to marginalize moderate opposition forces.

“This just shows again how both extremes in the Syrian conflict — the regime and the radical Islamists — feed off each other and need each other to survive,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/pro-government-warpla
nes-bomb-a-rebel-town-that-hates-al-qaeda-killing-scores/2016/04/19/0a1d34ac-0641-11e6-bfed-ef65dff5970d_story.html

And the Syrian government continues to starve rebel towns, in defiance of the UN:

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Aid workers have managed to visit some long-isolated areas of Syria, but most of the besieged areas have received little of the help they desperately need. The government has continued to remove medical supplies, including nutrition kits to help save people from starvation, from shipments to areas it has under siege, aid officials said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/middleeast/syria-cease-fire.ht
ml?smid=tw-share&_r=0

KPO

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:46 PM

The state of the Syria ceasefire - airstrikes on rebel-held Aleppo today, 10+ civilian casualties:

You see all the terrorists in the pictures, hit by the airstrikes? Yeah, me neither. Just innocent men, women, children.

KPO

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 9:51 PM

Syrian Defence Force (emergency volunteer rescuers) mourns after precision, double-tap night-time airstrike on its facility *cough* Russia *cough* - 5 killed:

You see all those terrorists hiding in amongst the blown up ambulances and emergency vehicles? Yeah, me neither.

KPO

Friday, May 6, 2016 3:48 AM

Another day, another war crime.

Air strike on refugee camp in rebel-held territory kills at least 28 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36214290

KPO

Friday, May 6, 2016 4:00 AM

From last week, airstrike on Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Aleppo kills 55 - http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/28/middleeast/syria-aleppo-hospital-air
strike/

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An airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Syria has killed 50 people, rights and humanitarian groups say, as the United Nations warns that the situation in Aleppo has become "catastrophic" amid intensified fighting in recent days.

The U.N. special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, told reporters in Geneva on Thursday that Syria's nationwide "cessation of hostilities" is under serious threat of collapse, and that a humanitarian disaster is unfolding as violence increases in Aleppo and three other locations.

Al Quds field hospital, situated in a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo, was hit by a missile from a fighter jet Wednesday, witnesses said.

The airstrike killed at least 50 people, according to Pablo Marco, operations manager for Doctors Without Borders in the Middle East.

Marco told CNN that at least six of the dead were hospital staff: Two doctors, two nurses, one guard and one maintenance worker. The death toll could still rise.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the attack and pointed a finger of blame at the Syrian government.

"We are outraged by yesterday's airstrikes in Aleppo on the al Quds hospital supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which killed dozens of people, including children, patients and medical personnel," he said in a statement.

"It appears to have been a deliberate strike on a known medical facility and follows the Assad regime's appalling record of striking such facilities and first responders. These strikes have killed hundreds of innocent Syrians."

"Surely Russia and Assad wouldn't stoop to repeatedly targeting hospitals, would they?"

And yet they do, again and again. Time for us to open up our eyes to that fact.

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