Hariri Lashes Out at International Community's Silence over Assad's 'Massacres'
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Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri “strongly condemned” Wednesday's Reef Damascus massacre, considering that the problem lies in “the international community that continues to allow Syrian President Bashar Assad to commit crimes.”
“No words can describe the massacre inflicted by Assad’s forces on hundreds of children, women and innocent Syrian civilians in the suburban Damascus town of Ghouta,” Hariri said in a released statement.
He continued: “This massacre is comparable to other horrible crimes in history, such as those committed by Hulagu and Hitler, the massacres of Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia, to the massacres of the Haganah in Palestine and Sabra and Shatila.”
The former premier accused Assad of “losing any human feeling towards his people.”
“The problem, however, is not with Assad only, but it lies in the international community that is allowing the Damascus murderer to persist in committing massacres and systematically destroying Syrian cities and their history.”
Hariri elaborated: “The worst is that there are, among Arabs and Muslims, parties that are covering these murders and participating in them. They are not moved by the horrible images reported by the media.”
He called on the international community “to shoulder its responsibility once and for all and stop the policies of inaction towards the regime's activities.”
Also, Hariri warned on the other hand Lebanese factions “who insist on getting involved in the ongoing genocide in Syria.”
“History will have no mercy for the murderers and killers and it will certainly not grant any certificates of moral and human innocence to Bashar’s accomplices in burning Syria,” he said.
Meanwhile, the head of the al-Mustaqbal bloc former PM Fouad Saniora stated that Ghouta massacre is the “worst event that can ever cross someone's mind.”
"We have never witnessed such crimes except in rare historical cases when human beings were turned into predators that have no mercy,” Saniora expressed in a released statement.
He also accused the international community of “allowing the Syrian regime to reach this degree of violence and nonchalance.”
"We urge Arabs and the international community to stop these massacres and try this criminal regime through conducting a quick and transparent probe into this event."
Saniora addressed Lebanese political parties, calling on them to give a “firm and honest stand towards the activities of the Damascus regime.”
Syria's main opposition group accused the government of "massacring" more than 1,300 people in chemical weapons attacks near Damascus on Wednesday, saying many of the victims choked to death.
Videos distributed by activists, the authenticity of which could not immediately be verified, showed medics attending to suffocating children and hospitals being overwhelmed.
More footage showed dozens of people laid out on the ground, among them many children, some of them covered in white sheets.
The claim of chemical weapons use, which could not be independently confirmed, was vehemently denied by the Syrian regime which said it was intended to hinder the work of the U.N. weapons inspectors already in the country.
21 August 2013, 22:18
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When two sides are killing in war .There Is No Good Side .Killing is killing !
21 August 2013, 22:19
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Typical napoleaounist, when they're out of arguments they attack people personally.
21 August 2013, 22:23
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Saad Hariri, if diplomacy fails.... You know what's left? Arm us so we can defend ourselves against the assassins and their 80k rockets that are used on the real Lebanese people.
22 August 2013, 00:57
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Don't count on Saad to arm us, but there is enough weapons in Syria.
Just wait for Bashar to fall and u'll see that HA will change or get changed...
22 August 2013, 06:13
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@cedre
You are a remarkably smart at stratagem (sarcastic).
If/when Bashar falls, kiss Lebanon and Syria good bye.
Take the Afghan example when the regime (backed by USSR) fell in 1990. All the Islamists that where fighting the regime, turned on each other because each wanted their own Islamic state. The most radical of the was The Taliban who where (ironically) HEAVILY funded and supported by the US. In fact, a delegation of Talibans where in the US negotiating with Unocal and Haliburton for a gas/oil pipeline that will pass through Afghanistan when 9/11 attacks. This proves that Islamists have no loyalty except to an Islamic state and all people (except them) are kafirs
22 August 2013, 12:12
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cleanleb, agreed. When the largely out-powering terrorist elements that have invested a good deal in Syria refuse to leave, the scenario you've described seems likely, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Syria.
The US is not getting involved because everywhere it has gone it has destroyed and received largely negative views by the public. This again comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict really. In any case, the US knows this quite well and also the cost of going to war. It's already 11trillion dollars in debt, another 1 or 2 trillion is out of the question.
21 August 2013, 22:45
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What a tragedy! It is always innocent people who suffer the most in wars. Regardless of who did it, it is still a human tragedy and I feel for all those who have been affected by it. God bless their soulds.
Why are you all arguing about this. I truly don't understand. There is a time for arguments and a time to be humbled. Whether chemical agents or not and whether it was Bashar or not. Who cares? All these people lost their lives and that is heart-aching plain and simple.
22 August 2013, 12:19
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very heartbreaking they are human like any one of us,, there only children innocent in this terrible game of war.. i hate all wars so not necessary. god is watching us all , shame on the human race for allowing so many dictators, rulers, presidents..in authority to do this to all innocent human beings all wars are bad past and present. what a tragedy for human civilization
22 August 2013, 00:28
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President, Mubarak Hussein Obama, was briefed. He'll take care of things soon with his premature Nobel Peace Prize.
22 August 2013, 04:52
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What I mean is, the first U.S. President with family ties and background in Muslim religion, after accepting his Nobel Peace Prize and giving that emotionally charged speech in Egypt, Arab cousins are still killing each other in Syrian and now Egypt. The message communicated by giving him the prize was that he would not engage the U.S. in questionable wars in the Middle East like his predecessors and put the emphasis towards meaningful engagement in promoting peace and stopping the killings. Syria's war is still going, and whether you are Sunni, Shiite or Christian, as human beings we need to stop these senseless killings and take the necessary actions to topple these despots and tyrants and allow the people to replace them with civilized human beings who are not predisposed with religious divisions which clearly he has not done so. So what is the meaning of handing over a peace prize and accepting it?
22 August 2013, 12:21
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VINCENT, I think it's quite clear the mistake regarding the Nobel Prize.
He has done good things at home, but nothing internationally to warrant a Nobel Peace Prize. Just some months after receiving it, he intensified operations in Afghanistan, and we all know about the NSA, among many other things.
I think they should give the next one to Snowden for his passion for the freedom of information and the exposure on gross government overreach.
22 August 2013, 00:46
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I think you Mr. Harriri is a laughable stock. Our brethren Sunni should fired yo long time ago from being a mouthpiece for them. Our Sunni brethren deserve better than this. Fire him!
22 August 2013, 00:48
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shocking. this shia lebanese officer and his whip are like the talibans of kandahar.... shocking!
22 August 2013, 13:47
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what's more, he's playing the sectarian cards but forgetting what the talibans are, and who's ideology (and oil money) they are following...
22 August 2013, 04:25
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Yah Harriri , politics does not suit you at all .
Go to Monaco & lay for several weeks at a time spending money from your Saudi Family & enjoy the sun with your " male" friends !
Every time you open that mouth of yours your IQ sinks further .
Use your mouth wisely ! Do use it to satisfy your addiction .... You know what I mean ?
Signed Wolf !!!!.......
22 August 2013, 06:05
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Mr. Hariri,
Syria is none of your business. You and your goons were involved early on two years ago by arming and supporting the opposition. You have dragged Lebanon into this war out of revenge for your father's alleged Syrian involvement in his assassination.
You have failed as a Lebanese politician (you are not even Lebanese), what makes you think you can be a successful regional politician?
22 August 2013, 06:50
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So you mean you and your Islamic terrorists are better, cleanleb? Move to Iran you ignorant fool. Yourresistance is the cause of our strife. Wake up and smell your Lebanese coffee.
22 August 2013, 07:34
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Unlike you and all idiots here, i am neither M14 or M8.
which makes me more credible than all of you.
When you start your sentence with "so you mean..." and make wrong deductions, you would be the ignorant fool.
Again I ask you, what business does M14 have in Syria. But this time try to answer exactly that question... if your IQ permits
22 August 2013, 07:39
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moreover, you can apply your one-sided argument to either party. Move to Saudi you ignorant fool.
Your leadership's selfish shortsightedness is the cause of our strife. Wake up and smell the Regional coffee.
22 August 2013, 07:41
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Until your reach a point when you can be objective to mistakes on both sides of the spectrum, do NOT mingle with others who can.
22 August 2013, 08:17
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that's all you can think of in your reply?
well, that settles the IQ riddle.
hint: when you call people that you don't know fools... you might risk upsetting them
22 August 2013, 08:20
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Again I ask you, what business does M14 have in Syria. But this time try to answer exactly that question... if your IQ permits
22 August 2013, 08:20
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Again I ask you, what business does M14 have in Syria. But this time try to answer exactly that question... if your IQ permits
22 August 2013, 08:43
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this is why this country is messed up!!!!!!!!!
when i challenge you with a valid question: what business does M14 have in Syria, instead of using your brain and that maybe it is worthwhile putting some thought into M14's action you reply by calling me a fool.
@scorpyonn, if you live in Lebanon, you can rot in it because your approach leads to more stupidity by our leaders. if you live abroad, that is because our leaders' mistakes have made the country unlivable.
22 August 2013, 12:08
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I think it was a choking agent rather than a nerve agent. Otherwise there would be no way those who had contact with the victims could be immune to the agent. Choking agents are more volatile and evaporate more quickly, and so a more effective choice in terms of detection. Then again they're not really effective for that very reason, but in light of any lack of blood/defecation/self-urination it seems more likely than not the agent was a pulmonary one.
22 August 2013, 17:55
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Speaking of Sabra and Shatilla, those Iranian boys surely learned from their Israeli buddies. When they stormed into Qusayr and found that there were no men of fighting age left to kill (the rebels had withdrawn), Baschar's barkers lined up the rest against walls and jizzed bullets at them. The Iranian Occupation Force, being more economically astute, decided not to waste those expensive bullets, and finished off the job with machetes. Reminds you of something?
