Syrian troops 'wipe out village'

[tabatha]

Syrian troops have been accused of massacring an entire village with rockets, machine guns and tanks.

They surrounded the unarmed villagers in a valley and killed all those trapped inside – more than 100 people – in a barrage that lasted for hours, a witness and two activist groups said. The attack on Tuesday pushed the death toll for two days of violence across Syria to more than 200, and was one of the deadliest single events of the entire nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad.

One villager who escaped said that scores of people had fled to the nearby Budnaya Valley, where they were completely surrounded by troops. The man, who identified himself only as Abu Rabih for fear of government reprisal, said troops also used bombs filled with nails to increase the number of casualties.

“What happened yesterday was a crime against humanity,” he said. He said 110 people were killed in the attack.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/syrian-troops-wipe-out-village-533148.html#ixzz1hCPGx492

This is called talking peacefully to the opposition?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. The opposition is pretty peaceful now

Not a peep out of them.

sad

I once heard the words, "Never again" and thought the world meant it but I was young and naive.

[tabatha]

6. Which opposition?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. Those opposed to Assad's dictatorship

People shouldn't be massacred like that just for wanting a better life for their families.

Some days you think you have it rough and then you read about real evil suffered by real people.

[TheWraith]

2. You know what I find most ironic?

Some people who insist that the Syrian dictatorship is really okay, and that any protests are strictly malcontent rabble rousers who are secret CIA puppets, and that anyone with legitimate grievances is happy to negotiate with the dictatorship, even while said dictatorship is massacring people with bombings, executions, and torture.

But those same people insist Occupy Wall Street is the pure and untainted spawn of the Gods, can accept nothing less than total revolution, and that the use of tear gas and pepper spray against OWS protesters is a war crime worthy of the Hague.

[tabatha]

5. Well said.

And the claims of CIA puppetry are made without any evidence.

It is a slap in the face to the people who are dying to have at minimum the same freedom as we have here.

[Bacchus4.0]

7. yes, I was just reading posts from some of those folks today. well done. n/t

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[Liberal_in_LA]

3. horrible! omg

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. October 2: Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Assad, Gaddafi

CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he was praying for Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad against ‘Yankee’ aggression.

Chavez — who has inherited Fidel Castro’s mantle as Washington’s main irritant in Latin America — views the wave of uprisings in the Arab world as Western-led destabilization and has been a strong ally of Gaddafi.

‘The Libyans are resisting the invasion and aggression. I ask God to protect the life of our brother Muammar Gaddafi. They’re hunting him down to kill him,’ he said.

‘No one knows where Gaddafi is, I think he went off to the desert ... to lead the resistance. What else can he do?’

more: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2011/October/middleeast_October33.xml&section=middleeast

[tabatha]

8. Yep - all those people dying and demanding no boots on the ground, but demanding a no fly zone

are Western-led?