Day of Anger in Syria

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Day of Anger in Syria

Syrian activists declared on Tuesday a “anger day” throughout Syria to protest Russia’s decision to still support the regime of Bashar al-Assad, whom they accused of having killed another 17 people during the new phase of crackdown unleashed against the people who have been protesting for the past six months.

The people who created a Facebook group called The Syrian Revolution 2011 said that Russia should consider that sooner or later the Assad regime will disappear but that the people will remain in the country, alluding to the fact that this support of the regime that is accused of having killed some 3,200 people will have serious consequences in the future for the mutual relations between the two countries.

There are reports that say that the protest failed to ignite, thus proving that the people in this country cannot be expected to get organized via Facebook or Twitter, as the Egyptians or Tunisians did, and that the protests will continue to be spontaneous as they were before. The organizers were hoping that the Kurds would take the lead, but they chose to wait and see what happens, given that they had their share of crackdown over the last decades.

The fury of the people was triggered by the fact that Moscow has opposed a UN resolution that was implementing sanctions against Bashar’s regime, while drafting another resolution in which the regime was barely being called to stop the crackdown on people and to open direct talks with the people.

Dmitry Medvedev also defended the regime in Damascus in his talks with the British PM David Cameron in Moscow on Monday just as the security forces in Syria were killing 17 and arresting 60 in the city of Hama.

The regime also launched a hunt for the defectors, after an attorney general switched sides and defected, taking with him valuable information about the crackdown in Syria. According to the defecting attorney, 10,000 were detained by the security forces, hundreds of them were killed during interrogation and buried in mass graves, and papers have been falsified so that the dead be said to have been killed by armed gangs walking free all over the country.

At least 700 soldiers are believed to have left the army as a result of the order to shoot civilians, but it is said that the number is too small and the ranks of them too low to inspire a serious movement against the regime in the ranks of the army, which is made up of Sunni soldiers and Alawite officers.

France is among the few European countries to have accused Syria’s regime of crimes against humanity. On Monday, French foreign ministry said that UN’s incapacity to pass a resolution that would actually help the people in Syria was a “scandal.”

Russian-Syrian Ties

Medvedev said that the sanctions must be applied to both sides in Syria, since the opposition refuses to engage in talks, and added that a resolution against Syria should not lead to automatic application of sanctions.

After the talks with Medvedev, British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed his disappointment in Russia’s stance on the Syrian matter. “British would like to go further,” Cameron said, adding that UK sees no future for Assad as leader of Syria.

The same kind of disappointment was voiced also by the United States, whose State Department said that they wanted a resolution with “sanctions teeth.”

Syrian president’s aide Shaaban said that his country was following into the steps taken by the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and that the change in the country cannot be made without sacrifices. He rejected any foreign mediation in the conflict.

On Monday, as the crackdown resumed with full intensity in the field, the members of the Syrian opposition in exile announced that a national transitional council was being created, similar to the one created in Libya, and that it would become the leading force that would ensure that what the people demand in the streets of Syria comes to pass, that is the fall of the regime.

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