Report: Abductors of Two Bishops Demand End of Violence to Free them
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The kidnappers of the two bishops Youhanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi in Syria in April are demanding an immediate end to violence in the country to guarantee their safe release.
According to al-Liwaa newspaper published on Wednesday, the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad should commit to a long-term truce in order for the abductors to release the two bishops.
The two bishops were kidnapped by rebels in the northern province of Aleppo at the end of April while on humanitarian work.
Damascus considers the abduction of the bishops as a “national matter.”
However, General Security Chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim reportedly held talks with Assad and Qatari officials to mediate the release of the two bishops.
“Indirect negotiations with the kidnappers began,” Ibrahim said on Tuesday.
He pointed out that a month ago he contacted a person who located the place of the two bishops.
30 October 2013, 11:15
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Apparently you didn't realize that the terrorists are your allies.
30 October 2013, 15:10
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"Sectarianism, according to one definition, is bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions within a group, such as between different denominations of a religion, class, regional or factions of a political movement.
The ideological underpinnings of attitudes and behaviors labelled as sectarian are extraordinarily varied. Members of a religious or political group may believe that their own salvation, or the success of their particular objectives, requires aggressively seeking converts from other groups; adherents of a given faction may believe that for the achievement of their own political or religious project their internal opponents must be converted or purged.
Sometimes a group that is under economic or political pressure will kill or attack members of another group which it regards as responsible for its own decline." Yeah... not Hezbollah at all!
