Today is the Day of Mourning for Victims of the #CircassianGenocide. Over a 100-year period, the Russian empire killed, cleansed, deported, or Russified the bulk of the indigenous Circassian population. As in Ukraine, Syria, and Chechnya, mass atrocity is the Russian way of war.
They’ve killed him.
They must be held accountable.
The #Syrian gov kidnapped, disappeared & murdered my father in their notorious prisons w/o even charging him with a crime or a trial. Justice must be served. My father was a man of peace, love, an award winning psychotherapist
I received this message from activists in As Suwayda:
• This message is for the @sa_council
• Today marks day 15 since the beginning of this movement. We are growing stronger by the day.
• We reached a total of 40 points of protest.
• We demand to topple the regime, not to disable the state.
• We closed all Baath Party’s offices in the city and its suburbs.
• We removed all posters of Assad and his father.
• A collective decision was made today to reopen all state institutions.
• We declared a weekly general civil disobedience.
• We have no intention of backing down.
• We count on all other Syrian states to join this movement.
• Our slogan is a united Syria for all Syrians, a state of justice and law, a secular state, and a secular state that preserves the rights of all its citizens.
• The regime remains capable of cracking down on protests.
• Please convey our voice to decision-making centers in the United States, the United Nations and the European Union. #الثورة_السورية_العظيمة #مظاهرات_السويداء #السويداء_تنتفض
Today in my city. "We want the detainees!"
Syria has more than 130,000 detainees and forcibly disappeared persons. The vast majority of those detainees are taken by the Syrian government.
We want our detainees back!
"طفلة لابسة كنزة خضرة". لا اسم. لا أم. لا أب. لا شقيقة. لا بنت جيران. لا زميلة مدرسة. لا احلام. لا أفكار. لا طموحات. لا خيبات. لا آلام. لا أفراح. لا عيون بنية او عسلية. لا شعر أسود أو بني. ولا بشرة بيضاء او حنطية. لا علامات فارقة. لا شيء. مجرد جسد كسته كنزة خضراء. كأنه لم يكن.
استشهاد 4 مدنيين وإصابة آخرين برصاص فصيل جيش الشرقية، وذلك أثناء احتفال المدنيين بعيد النيروز في مدينة جنديرس بريف عفرين.
عزاؤنا وتضامننا الكامل مع أهلنا الأكراد ونسأل الله أن ينتقم ممن جعل هذا العيد مأتما.
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream just awarded Aaron Maté a journalism award, specifically citing his pro-Russia propaganda on Ukraine, his denial of chemical weapons attacks in Syria, and his interviews with Syria Nazi Party surrogate Dennis Kucinich.
The world food program @wfp has reduced the amount of food in the humanitarian basket they give it to the Syrian IDPs in the camps in northern Syria for the sixth time.
1- She was rescued by the #WhiteHelmets, and now Asma al-Assad, the wife of Bashar al-Assad, exploits her shamelessly to cover up her husband's crimes and his criminal regime. Here is Sham's story...
All you need to know about the aid received by the Assad regime can be found in this amazing interactive tool developed by @putintintin1 and @mhdnoorf.
https://t.co/IxeHOVhJJM
What an incredible loss. Dr. Bassma Kodmani, an-ward winning Syrian French academic, author, and political activist has passed away at age 64. Dr. Kodmani was a co-founder of Syria’s first opposition coalition and a long time advocate of democracy and political reform in the Arab World as the Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative. She was the also the recipient of ‘the national de la Légion d'honneur,’ the highest French order of merit.
This morning, as I replayed the last audio message I received from her, which was on Nov 9, I felt as if she was talking to me from the beyond. I had urged her to come to the US for treatment but she was content with the medical care she was receiving in Paris.
Bassma, whose name means “beaming smile” will leave a huge void not only in the Syrian and Arab political and intellectual landscape but also in the hearts of people who knew her. #بسمة_قضماني
رحمها الله، غفر لها الله، آنسها الله، وعوّضها الجنّة.
My colleague @MuhsenAlmustafa was visiting a small village in the Hatay province (south of Turkey) with family and friends when the earthquake hit. I'm so grateful he's ok.
He shares his personal reflections and underscores the urgency of it all: https://t.co/yj4EOOQ9wn @TimepDC
Russia:
Invades Moldova 1992
Flattens Grozny 1999
Uses polonium in UK 2006
Cyber attacks Estonia 2007
Invades Georgia 2008
Invades Crimea & Eastern Ukraine 2014
Downs MH17 2014
Flattens Aleppo 2015
Uses Novicok 2018
Invades Ukraine more 2022
Also Russia: West is so aggressive
رحلت عن عالمنا اليوم المناضلة والسياسية النسوية بسمة قضماني بعد صراع مع المرض. قضت قضماني حياتها في العمل من أجل حياة أفضل في بلادنا، وشاركت بفاعلية منذ الثمانينات في كثير من الجهود العلمية والسياسية من أجل سوريا.