APPELLO URGENTE PER AFRIN – Fermare questa invasione è diventata una responsabilità storica
Posted date: March 11, 2018
APPELLO URGENTE PER AFRIN – Fermare questa invasione è diventata una responsabilità storica
Proprio adesso centinaia di migliaia di civili ad Afrin si trovano sotto i pesanti bombardamenti dei jet turchi.
La Turchia continua il massacro di Afrin ignorando la risoluzione ONU per il cessate-il-fuoco.
Fermiamo il genocidio e la pulizia etnica dell’esercito turco ad Afrin
Il popolo curdo ad Afrin è oggetto di genocidio e pulizia etnica da parte dell’esercito turco, con il supporto di gruppi jihadisti come al-Qaeda, al-Nusra e ciò che resta dell’ISIS.
Questa invasione e questo attacco genocida sono stati portati avanti di fronte agli occhi dell’umanità. Una città ora è sul punto di essere distrutta dal secondo esercito più grande della NATO che è dotato delle armi più sofisticate prodotte da diversi paesi. Questo attacco viene legittimato diffondendo un discorso propagandistico come se eserciti di due grandi Stati stessero combattendo l’uno contro l’altro. Quelle potenze, tra cui i membri permanenti del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, che forniscono armi alla Turchia sono complici di questo crimine.
Ad Afrin comincia l’iniziativa degli scudi umani
La popolazione della città di Afrin si rifiuta di abbandonare le proprie case e giura di resistere all’invasione. Nel momento in cui l’esercito turco insieme con le sue bande si è avvicinato nel raggio di 1 km al centro della città, i civili si sono mobilitati contro gli invasori. Diversi convogli di veicoli sono stati organizzati dagli abitanti e gli attivisti hanno fatto il giro della città per esortare tutti a unirsi allo di scudo umano. Durante i 52 giorni degli attacchi, l’esercito invasore ha ucciso più di 290 civili.
Chiediamo al Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite di intervenire per fermare l’invasione turca di Afrin.
E inoltre:
•Facciamo appello al Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite affinché si batta in difesa della Risoluzione 2401, per non lasciare che il regime turco venga meno alle responsabilità per le proprie azioni nella regione di Afrin, Siria.
•Esortiamo la comunità internazionale a mettere in atto il cessate-il-fuoco del Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU e a garantire la consegna di aiuti umanitari e sanitari per coloro che ne hanno disperato bisogno, ad Afrin e Ghouta.
•Sottolineiamo il bisogno urgente dell’implementazione di una zona di non sorvolo sulla regione di Afrin per preservare vite e abitazioni civili, infrastrutture civili, monumenti significativi e siti di rilevanza culturale. Invitiamo la comunità internazionale ad aiutare la messa in atto della no-fly zone con truppe di pace e delegazioni di osservatori.
Ufficio Informazione del Kurdistan in Italia
http://www.uikionlus.com/appello-urgente-per-afrin-fermare-questa-invasione-e-diventata-una-responsabilita-storica/
Syrian Army Gains Ground, Cleaves Rebel Enclave of Eastern Ghouta
The Syrian army has cut off two major towns from the rest of the area under ‘unrelenting bombardment’
The Syrian army broke apart the rebel enclave in eastern Ghouta on Sunday, cutting off two major towns from the rest of the area, state media said, after a fierce battle waged under cover of an unrelenting bombardment.
State television on Sunday broadcast from the eastern Ghouta town of Mudeira, which state television and a war monitor said the army had captured to link up with units on the other side of the enclave.
A military media unit run by the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian government, said the army had also entirely surrounded the town of Douma.
Footage showed several massive plumes of smoke in the distance behind a war-ravaged townscape with big holes in walls and roofs, and yet more smoke wafting across the streets. The sound of blasts could be heard.
More than 1,100 civilians have been killed in the onslaught on the biggest rebel stronghold near Damascus since it began three weeks ago with a withering bombardment, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It said there was intense fighting on several fronts accompanied by a government artillery barrage, continuous air raids and attacks by helicopters.
The advance on Mudeira, after the capture of the neighbouring town of Mesraba on Saturday, has driven a wedge deep inside the insurgent territory, leaving the major towns of Douma and Harasta cut off.
Rebel groups in eastern Ghouta have vowed they will fight on. A statement issued by Free Syrian Army factions there late on Saturday said they had taken a decision not to accept a surrender and negotiated withdrawal.
After the army advances split up the enclave, Jaish al-Islam emerged as the strongest group in the town of Douma, Ahrar al-Sham in the town of Harasta and Failaq al-Rahman in the new southern pocket of eastern Ghouta.
Syrian state media also reported army advances near Jisreen and Aftaris in the southeastern part of the rebel-held territory.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ally Russia see the rebels as terrorist groups, and say their offensive is needed to end the rebels’ rule over eastern Ghouta’s large population.
But the violence of their assault has prompted condemnation from Western countries and repeated calls by United Nations aid agencies for a humanitarian ceasefire.
Activists and fighters in eastern Ghouta in recent days have said the bombardment has included incendiary material that causes fires and burn injuries. Local doctors have also reported several incidents of bomb attacks followed by the smell of chlorine and choking symptoms.
The government denies using either incendiary weapons or chlorine gas bombs, and said on Saturday it had information that the rebels were planning to stage a fake chemical attack to discredit the army.
In Muscat, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said it would be “very unwise” for Syrian government forces to use weaponized gas, citing unconfirmed reports of chlorine attacks in eastern Ghouta.
Visiting Oman, Mattis stopped short of threatening to retaliate against Syrian forces if a chlorine attack were confirmed. But he noted America’s cruise missile strike on April 6, 2017, on a Syrian air base over a sarin gas attack and said President Donald Trump had “full political maneuver room” to take whatever decision he believed was appropriate.
While the government and Russia say they have set up safe routes into government-held territory, no civilians are known to have crossed through them yet.
Damascus and Moscow accuse rebels of firing on anybody who tries to leave, something the insurgents deny though a Reuters witness said there was shelling and gunfire near one exit route on Friday.
Rebels and some eastern Ghouta residents contacted by Reuters have said people there do not want to come back under Assad’s rule for fear of persecution, an idea the government says is groundless.
On Saturday, the army found 60 civilians cowering in a basement in Mesraba. Activists in eastern Ghouta said thousands of people from Mesraba had already fled into Douma, further into the rebel territory, before the army took it.
Syrian state television reported on Sunday that rebel mortar fire had killed four people after hitting a taxi. Assad has sworn to end insurgent shelling of the capital.
Defeat in eastern Ghouta would deliver the rebels their biggest blow since December 2016, when a government offensive drove them from Aleppo, their largest urban stronghold.
Backed by Russian war planes and other military assistance since 2015, Assad has gained momentum on several fronts across the country, driving rebels from numerous pockets and recapturing swathes of the east from Islamic State.
But he is still far from regaining control over the entire country. Rebel groups hold large areas of the northwest and southwest, while northeastern Syria is in the hands of Kurdish fighters and allied militias.
Meanwhile, the increasingly global nature of the war means that military attempts to regain several of those areas could pit Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers against forces that are also directly supported by powerful foreign countries.
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https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/syrian-army-gains-ground-cleaves-rebel-enclave-of-eastern-ghouta-1.5890865