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15 November 2013 Last updated at 08:26 GMT

Syrian Kurds play down autonomy plans

The leader of the Kurdish Democrats Saleh Muslim has played down proposals for Kurdish self-governance in northern Syria. Muslim claims that plans for a Kurdish administration are a temporary measure which will remain in place while Syria’s civil war continues.

Saleh Muslim, leader of Kurdish Democrats:

"It's not autonomists. What we have done is just the first step of the civil, what we can say the civil administration for the area for Rojava. And what happened yesterday is just the founding; the founding consults which contains 82 people."

Insurgents linked to the Kurdish Democrats have killed around 3,000 hardline Islamist militants in northern Syria. Saleh Muslim says the violence arose because the al-Qaeda linked fighters are interested in oil reserves based on Kurdish territory.

Saleh Muslim, leader of Kurdish Democrats:

"Because in the end, they are fighting for money, as I mentioned also. There are about 3000 people killed from them. At the beginning, they were strong but now, they are not strong enough because in a war somebody should lose, and they are losing."

Despite fighting against the Sunni Muslim militants in northern Syria, the Kurds deny claims they are working with the Shia Muslim forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad which have been battling Islamists elsewhere since the start of Syria’s 32-month long conflict.

Saleh Muslim, leader of Kurdish Democrats:

"We have no contact with them at all and also they are far away because we have those groups between, so we have no relations with them."

Syria’s main opposition to Assad – the Syrian National Coalition, a group backed by many western governments, has also voiced its opposition to Kurdish autonomy. The Coalition said in a statement that the Kurds were "separatists" "hostile to the Syrian revolution".

However, the Syrian Kurdish Democrats are cooperating with groups based in historical Kurdistan – specifically in parts of Iraq, Turkey and Iran. Two Iraqi Kurdish parties and Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers Party have already provided aid, weapons and money to the cause.

The region’s 25 million Kurds are said to be the world’s largest ethnic group without a state. Turkey’s Kurdish party waged a violent insurgency for three decades, until recent peace talks with the government began. In Iraq and Iran, meanwhile Kurdish resistance efforts continue.

Despite the Syrian Kurds seeking to play down their desire for autonomy, there are increasing concerns of a "Balkanization" of the region which could spread violence and disrupt the fragile balance of power.

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Militantes ligados à Al Qaeda decapitam rebelde por engano


Um grupo de combatentes rebeldes ligados à Al Qaeda decapitou um soldado rebelde sírio por pensar que pertencia às forças do presidente Bashar al-Assad. A entidade assumiu o erro, que apareceu num vídeo publicado na Internet. Nas imagens, cuja autenticidade não pode ser comprovada, os membros do Estado Islâmico do Iraque e do Levante mostravam a cabeça de um homem que, segundo eles, era um soldado das forças de Assad que tinha sido morto horas antes.

Dias depois, foi determinado que o nome da vítima era Mohammed Fares, um combatente que ficara ferido horas antes em combates contra o Exército sírio, segundo o Observatório Sírio de Direitos Humanos, grupo opositor sediado em Londres.

Perante o erro, o Estado Islâmico do Iraque e do Levante emitiu um comunicado pedindo perdão pela morte e «calma e piedade» aos opositores do regime.

«Nós oramos a Alá para que aceite Mohammed Fares no seu reino e perdoe a esses irmãos que só buscavam eliminar os inimigos de Alá e os nossos inimigos», disse o porta-voz da entidade, Omar al-Qahatani.

A entidade vinculada à Al Qaeda disse que o combatente rebelde chegou a um hospital improvisado na frente de batalha gritando os nomes de duas figuras reverenciadas pelos xiitas, considerados blasfemos pelo Estado Islâmico, que é sunita.

Noutro vídeo, um jovem prepara uma faca para decapitar a cabeça de Fares, dizendo: «Ele é um voluntário xiita iraquiano do Exército de Bashar al-Assad».

O incidente acontece num momento em que aumenta a tensão entre os grupos combatentes rebeldes e da chegada de militantes de grupos radicais islâmicos para combater na crise síria. Tal pode agravar a guerra civil que, em dois anos e oito meses, deixou mais de 110 mil mortos, segundo a ONU.

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Mercenários russos na Síria a lutar do lado governamental.

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Saudi-Pakistani new alliance to topple Syrian government

Pakistan could be given the responsibility for training two militant brigades in Syria, with about 5,000-10,000 militants.

Saudi Arabia, one of the biggest spenders of the foreign-sponsored war in Syria is turning to Pakistan to train militants, repeating a partnership that once failed in Afghanistan, a new report says.

The Foreign Policy Magazine wrote in an article on Thursday that Saudi Arabia is embarking on a major new effort to train Syrian rebel forces.

The article cites three sources with knowledge of the program that say Riyadh has enlisted the help of Pakistani instructors to do it.

According to the sources Pakistan could be given the responsibility for training about 5,000-10,000 militants from two brigades.

The report says the main goal of the Saudi project is to unite the mainstream armed opposition in Syria, many of whom are extremist forces, under the banner of a unified army.

The decision came after signs of rift in relations between Washington and Riyadh became evident.

Saudi Arabia’s decision to move forward with training the Syria militants independent of the United States is the latest sign of a split between the two longtime allies.

In Syria, Saudi officials were aggrieved by Washington’s decision to cancel a strike on the Syrian government in reprisal for a chemical attack on the Damascus suburbs this summer.

A top Saudi official told the Washington Post that Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan was unaware of the cancelation of the strike. “We found about it from CNN,” he said.

As a result, Saudi Arabia has decided to follow its own plans which rely on a network of Saudi allies in addition to Pakistan, such as Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and France.

“As the Saudis expand their effort to topple Assad, analysts say the central challenge is not to inflict tactical losses on the Syrian army, but to organize a coherent force that can coordinate its actions across the country. In other words, if Riyadh hopes to succeed where others have failed, it needs to get the politics right — convincing the fragmented rebel groups, and their squabbling foreign patrons, to work together in pursuit of a shared goal,” the article writes.

“The biggest problem facing the Saudis now is the same one facing the US, France, and anyone else interested in helping the rebels: the fragmentation of the rebels into groups fighting each other for local and regional dominance rather than cooperating to overthrow Assad,” said David Ottaway, a scholar at the Wilson Center who wrote a biography of Prince Bandar.

Syria militants are facing with deep divisions and rivalries with every now and then several of them pledging alliance together to form independent armies.

On Thursday, al-Qaeda leader Aymen Zawahiri who has the strongest militant groups on the ground in Syria fighting alongside the US-backed opposition urged all armed groups to be united and overthrow the Syrian government and set up their own ruling system.

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deve ser este o progresso que a hillary clinton em tempos disse que russia e china estavam a bloquear. perseguicoes e massacres a comunidades cristas!!!

dum lado russos a proteger um ditador secular, doutro americanos a apoiar terroristas FSA,ISIS,Nusra. ainda ha duvidas quem e o lobo mau?

Syria’s Christians Flee Kidnappings, Rape, Executions
Jamie Dettmer
By Jamie Dettmer
November 19th 20135:45 am

Running from assault, abduction, and assassination at the hands of jihadists and FSA rebels, Syria’s ancient Christian community fears a religious pogrom is set to erupt.

Traumatized by what they have endured inside Syria and fearful for their future, Christians fleeing the 32-month-long civil war say the persecution of Christians is worsening in rebel-held territories in the country’s north—and that the kidnapping, rape and executions of Christians aren’t just being carried out by jihadist groups, but also by other Sunni Muslim rebels, including those affiliated with the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA).

Christian refugees who have recently arrived in southeast Turkey—many of whom are retreading the steps of their forebears, who fled persecution in southern Turkey during the last century—say Christians are being seen as fair game by an assortment of  jihadists and Islamist rebels, including FSA-affiliated fighters and others with the Army of Islam. Most of the targeting of Syrian Christians has been blamed on al Qaeda affiliates Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Syria and Sham (ISIS), but refugees like 45-year-old school director Rahel say the picture inside is more confused.

She says jihadists weren’t in her predominantly Christian hamlet of al-Yakubiye in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib. FSA fighters from neighboring Sunni Muslim villages were the problem.

Back in February, the news agency AFP wrote about al-Yakubiye, noting that although one of the three churches had been looted, relations between Syrian Sunni Muslims and local Christians were cordial. But in the intervening months, nearly all Christians have fled after half a dozen were executed with their heads chopped off and about 20 more were kidnapped. The evacuation of al-Yakubiye has added to a Christian exodus which is prompting fears that the civil war could spell the doom of Syrian Christianity.

“Al Nusra didn’t come to our village; the people who came were from villages close by, and they were Free Syrian Army,” Rahel says.  Christians were targeted because they were seen as being pro-Assad, although she added some of the persecution was motivated also by greed, with the better-off being picked off first and their property divided by powerful local Sunni Muslim families.

Sitting on the terrace of a restored stone house in the small Turkish town of Midyat, where she lives for free along with her husband and four children thanks to a local Christian charity, Rahel says she can see no future for Christians in Syria. She says that the last few months have taught her one thing: “It is not possible for Christians to live there anymore.”

Her 53-year-old husband remained silent during the interview. According to Rahel he is suffering from shock. “He hardly sleeps and when he does he’s plagued by nightmares. Last week we heard about a relative being kidnapped.”

From the earliest days of Christianity, Christians have lived and worshipped in Syria. But the civil war has seen half-a-million flee—nearly a quarter of Syria’s Christians—with more arriving in Turkey and Lebanon each day.

Nearly 300 have sought sanctuary in the small town of Midyat and surrounding villages in the Tur Abdin region, less than 30 miles from the border. Tur Abdin is the historic heartland of the Syriac Orthodox church and the area is dotted with ancient churches and monasteries; one was founded in 397 AD.

The Christians’ biggest concern when it comes to Syria is an eventual rebel victory. They point to what happened in neighboring Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, where sectarian killings, persecution of Christians and an increasingly Islamist political culture more than half of the Iraqi Christian population to flee.

Before the civil war, Syria had an estimated Christian population of 2.5 million. The largest denomination is the Greek Orthodox Church, but there are also Catholics and Syriac Christians as well as Protestants and adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East. The Western-backed political opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, has sought to allay Christian fears, although to little avail as more Christian villages and towns are affected and massacres are reported.

Many of the Christian refugees arriving in Lebanon are traumatized, says Najla Chahda of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency. “A lot of them are sharing with us some really horrible stories that some fundamentalists approached them, forced them to pay some rent, or amount of money that they don’t have,” Chahda said. “So they are just afraid and left.”

Stories have included forced conversion to Islam and churches being desecrated in this vicious sectarian conflict. Several clergy have been abducted, including two bishops, and in villages in Homs province, large numbers of Christians have been forced from their homes and farms. One of the worst atrocities was reported earlier this month with the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Homs, Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, accusing al Qaeda-backed jihadists of killing more than 40 Christians during their occupation of the town of Sadad, north of Damascus.

“All the houses of Sadad were robbed and property looted,” Archbishop Alnemeh said in a statement. “The churches are damaged and desecrated, deprived of old books and precious furniture. Schools, government buildings, municipal buildings have been destroyed.”

Some Christian leaders in the West and in neighboring Lebanon have criticized the Middle East’s Christian patriarchs for appearing to side with Assad in the civil war, saying they are partly responsible for what is befalling their adherents.

“Unfortunately, the Christians have tied their fate not only to the regime but to Bashar al-Assad—and what I am afraid of is like what happened in Iraq,” says Basem Shabb, a Lebanese lawmaker and the only Protestant in Lebanon’s Parliament. He argues, “The Christians in Iraq were persecuted not because they were Christians but because they supported the regime.”

Heyfa, a 50-year-old mother of three girls and a boy, from a small village south of the Kurdish-controlled town of Al-Qamishli, doesn’t accept that criticism. She says that most of her neighbors weren’t Assad supporters; some were pro-rebellion, while others stayed neutral.  Even so, that didn’t stop jihadists harassing Christians and preying on the women. “We left because I was afraid for the girls—I didn’t want any bad things to happen to them. I was worried the girls would be raped. I kept them inside.”

Her eldest daughter, Dima, aged 22, stayed for much of the war in Aleppo, where she tried to continue with her English studies at the university. But she says it got more dangerous there and not just because of the battles between Assad forces and the rebels over Syria’s onetime commercial hub. She left Aleppo a year ago to join her family at home after one of her friends was kidnapped, gang-raped and then killed. “We don’t know who did this or why,” says Dima. Some rapes and killings of Christians are opportunistic, she says, while others are clearly targeted by jihadist and Islamists. (She  adds that Muslim girls are also at risk.)

A pretty girl with brunette hair, Dima sits curled up in an apartment in Midyat with her mother and her 16-year-old sister, Marie. Her father and two siblings are in a camp in Germany after the family got separated. The apartment is unheated and Dima seems to have the weight of the world on her shoulders—she’s the only one working as her mother is sick and her sister doesn’t understand either Kurdish or Turkish and can’t find work.

“It is hard. I am the one who works and the money I receive isn’t enough. I get 400 Turkish lira ($198) a month and 300 of that goes on rent.  We can’t afford to use the heat. Many times we don’t have things to eat.”

Dima’s isn’t the only all-female household of Christian refugees in Midyat. Oarda Saliba, aged 40, has with her five daughters ranging from five years old to 20. A son and husband are also in Germany. “For Christians it is very difficult to stay in Syria and there are many bad things happening to women,” she says.“ For jihadists Christian women are seen as their right. I didn’t want to take the risk with my daughters. In the streets they would touch and harass them. I don’t know if they were al-Nusra or not, although some were Libyans and Tunisian. But either way, they were terrorists.”

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Isso para ver os HIPÓCRITAS dos "conservadores" americanos que querem a guerra na Síria. Pudera: o patrocínio saudita compra muita coisa. Muito militar americano deve estar alugado e sem o saber.

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Jornalistas da ANNA atacados por sniper.

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Mercenários russos na Síria a lutar do lado governamental.

De acordo com este blog, pertencem à Slavonic Corps
http://spioenkop.blogspot.gr/2013/11/ru ... ia_16.html

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Violação usada como arma contra as mulheres na Síria


As mulheres na Síria são violadas quando estão detidas ou durante operações militares, usadas como escudos humanos e raptadas, abusos que constituem uma tática deliberada, segundo um relatório divulgado hoje. «Os abusos contra as mulheres (têm sido usados como) uma tática deliberada para derrotar a outra parte, numa perspetiva simbólica e psicológica, o que faz das mulheres alvos preferenciais», lê-se no relatório da Rede Euro-Mediterrânea de Direitos Humanos.

Divulgado hoje para coincidir com o Dia Internacional para a Eliminação da Violência Contra as Mulheres, o documento conclui que a violenta guerra na Síria «criou um contexto propício à violência contra as mulheres, incluindo a violência sexual».

Casos de violações de de mulheres, sobretudo «durante ataques governamentais, em postos de controlo e dentro de instalações de detenção», foram documentados em sete províncias, incluindo a de Damasco.

O relatório cita o caso de uma jovem de 19 anos, natural da cidade costeira de Tartus, cuja família é apoiante da Irmandade Muçulmana. Aida esteve detida entre outubro de 2012 e janeiro de 2013 e, durante esse tempo, violada duas vezes, a última das quais por três soldados na véspera de uma audiência em tribunal.

«O interrogador deixou-me na sala e voltou com três guardas que me violaram à vez. Resisti ferozmente ao primeiro, mas quando o segundo começou, fiquei mais assustada e não consegui resistir mais», relatou.

«Quando o terceiro começou, fui-me completamente abaixo, estava a sangrar continuamente. Quando acabou, caí no chão. Dez minutos depois, o médico da prisão apareceu e levou-me para a casa de banho, onde me deu uma injeção para eu poder estar de pé frente ao juiz», prosseguiu.

O relatório cita um outro caso, ilustrativo de como as forças do regime recorrem a violações durante operações militares, de uma rapariga de nove anos violada em frente da família por soldados das forças governamentais, em março de 2012, em Homs (centro).

O documento sublinha por outro lado a dificuldade em documentar casos de violação devido ao estigma associado à violência sexual.

«Muitas vítimas de violência sexual - se não a maior parte - escolheram ou foram obrigadas a deixar a sua terra natal, levando com elas para os países de asilo essas marcas físicas e psicológicas», segundo a organização.

O relatório conclui por outro lado haver um «fenómeno crescente» da utilização de mulheres como escudos humanos, tanto pelas forças do regime como da oposição.

As mulheres sírias são também frequentemente raptadas para serem trocadas por prisioneiros ou para «pressionar homens das suas famílias a entregar-se», segundo o documento, que cita números da Rede Síria de Direitos Humanos segundo os quais 125 mulheres e duas crianças foram sequestradas com estes fins entre dezembro de 2011 e maio de 2012.

O conflito na Síria, iniciado há 32 meses, já matou mais de 120.000 pessoas e fez milhões de refugiados. Segundo as Nações Unidas, três quartos dos refugiados sírios são mulheres e crianças.

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