Activists Protest Ghouta Massacre in Martyrs Square, Hope World 'Would Notice' Syria's People
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Independent social activists staged a sit-in on Wednesday evening at Beirut's Martyrs Square to protest the massacre of the Syrian Ghouta town in Reef Damascus.
The sit-in was held with the participation of National Struggle Front MP Akram Shehayeb, al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Ahmed Fatfat and a number of social activists and Syrian non-governmental organizations.
It took place amid strict security measures around the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) headquarters in downtown Beirut and Martyrs Square.
"We decided to file a complaint with the United Nations, hoping that the world would notice the Syrian people,” Shehayeb told MTV.
He expressed: “The Arab and European silence, the American loss and the Russian and Iranian firmness are killing the Syrian people.”
Fatfat said “everyone is responsible for what is happening and history will hold accountable all who cooperated and allied with (Syrian President Bashar) Assad.”
"What is happening stigmatizes the silent Arab conscious.”
Meanwhile, Syrian activist Sarah al-Sheikh Ali said the protest aimed at condemning the Ghouta massacre, and saving “what is left of Syria's children.”
Activist Assem Hamcho called on the U.N. to task its chemical experts to probe the Ghouta massacre.
“We also demand holding an urgent U.N. Security Council session to condemn this striking violation and take the necessary preemptive measures to stop the committing of massacres,” he stated, pointing out to the importance of allowing humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross and the Red Crescent to "enter the disastrous locations, save the wounded and provide the necessary medications."
The participants marched silently while lifting banners and lighting candles towards the ESCWA headquarters.
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, 22:13
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Allah yirhamon. Sure, Dahye's attack was a despicable act of terrorism..... But it cannot be compared to today's chemical. The butcher and his Lebanese and Iranian Chabiha friends will fall, it's only a matter of time.
21 August 2013, 22:15
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Not only him, but also Nasrallah, and actors of the Lebanese civil war who granted themselves amnesty. We need a new Nuremberg.
22 August 2013, 12:28
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"Independent social activists" with rebel flags :) just like the independent NGO rami abdlerahman :)
22 August 2013, 00:24
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Independent social activists staged a sit-in held with the participation of Akram Shehayeb who is a certified five star butcher and Ahmed Fatfat who is a traitor by trade, both collaborators with every enemy of Lebanon. Independent, alright, clean and very convincing.
22 August 2013, 00:43
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Noobody knows who's behind 2day's massacre in syria. it could be any side. may prayers for the victims and the survivors.
Obama's red line speech was given on 20/08/2012
- it could be assad sending a message to him, telling he's untouchable because of his deal with israel and russia.
- it could be anyone from the opposition or nusra reminding him that the red line had been crosse a looooooooooooong time ago and that his speech was a waste of oxygen.
nobody knows 2day.
22 August 2013, 06:29
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I have lost all respect for the Obama administration for talking about a red line and then sitting on their hands. I wanted Dick Cheney hanged for illegally invading Iraq, but I think it would be great to have him in the White House now- he would blow this bastard Assad and the Iranians to smithereens. Shame on the US for doing nothing.
22 August 2013, 18:09
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It's not that simple Scorpy. US attacks today, tomorrow the Islamic world will rally against it. It will take a long time for that Iraq smear to be washed from the US books. Until everyone who remembers that debacle is as dead as a blue Norwegian parrot, the US will have severe difficulty manoeuvring militarily in the Meast. Baschar knows it and is murdering left and right with impunity because of it. If anybody benefited from the millions of innocent deaths in Iraq, it's Baschar.
22 August 2013, 08:09
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We should send the Mexican drug cartels after Assad and his thugs- they will really make him suffer before they snuff out his miserable existence!
22 August 2013, 08:28
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where damascus population protesting when the syrians or the israeli armies invaded lebanon and were massacring its population?
NO
So we shouldn't care about them
"aide toi et Dieu t'aidera"
22 August 2013, 11:52
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ahahahahahahah "real name?"
My name is actualy christian. And you re saying that by hiding yourself under a nickname? Shame of you and lier
22 August 2013, 12:30
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it's a clear false flag operation. if anything this should justify stronger support for the syrian regime and harsher stomping of the rebels.
22 August 2013, 16:39
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Is that so? What about the Christian southern areas they freed without even an utterance of anything - even though it was their fellow Christian Lebanese who tortured them and collaborated with the enemy for years upon years in Khiam and other places. Did Hezbollah demand credit for the Shias for freeing these Christian areas? Please stop your nonsense. Any attack on Sunnis or any others are purely because Hezb feels threatened. It's a political game... Hezb aren't idiots.
22 August 2013, 18:05
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Prime: One thing that everybody does know today is that the opposition has no access to chemical weapons and never had. It's stretching faith to think it was anybody but the usual suspect, i.e., Baschar.
22 August 2013, 18:05
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Prime: One thing that everybody does know today is that the opposition has no access to chemical weapons and never had. It's stretching faith to think it was anybody but the usual suspect, i.e., Baschar.
22 August 2013, 21:43
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The World to Syrian people: "We're not blind; we're just ignoring you."
