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Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
Armed rebels murdered entire Alawi families in village of Taldo in Houla
It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the tipping point in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western media. Within days of the first reports of the Houla massacre, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, and several other Western countries announced that they were expelling Syrias ambassadors in protest.
But according to a new report in Germanys leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. For its account of the massacre, the report cites opponents of Assad, who, however, declined to have their names appear in print out of fear of reprisals from armed opposition groups.
According to the articles sources, the massacre occurred after rebel forces attacked three army-controlled roadblocks outside of Houla. The roadblocks had been set up to protect nearby Alawi majority villages from attacks by Sunni militias. The rebel attacks provoked a call for reinforcements by the besieged army units. Syrian army and rebel forces are reported to have engaged in battle for some 90 minutes, during which time dozens of soldiers and rebels were killed.
According to eyewitness accounts, the FAZ report continues,
the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houlas Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houlas population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.
The FAZ report echoes eyewitness accounts collected from refugees from the Houla region by members of the Monastery of St. James in Qara, Syria. According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered entire Alawi families in the village of Taldo in the Houla region.
I have been proven right, yet again, that it is the NATO-U.S. backed rebel sunni mercenary forces that are responsible for the massacres in Syria. This is being used for a pretext with which to interfere militarily in the SOVEREIGN affairs of Syria. This is part of a larger plan set by the CFR, RIIA (Royal Institute for International Affairs) and "think tank" planners, such as, The Brookings Institute's Middle East Policy Center for the Middle East.
source link:Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PQ7CT51Mo]'Rebels behind Houla massacre, US plan to destabilize Syria in full swing' - YouTube[/ame]
Armed rebels murdered entire Alawi families in village of Taldo in Houla
It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the tipping point in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of the Western media. Within days of the first reports of the Houla massacre, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, and several other Western countries announced that they were expelling Syrias ambassadors in protest.
But according to a new report in Germanys leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. For its account of the massacre, the report cites opponents of Assad, who, however, declined to have their names appear in print out of fear of reprisals from armed opposition groups.
According to the articles sources, the massacre occurred after rebel forces attacked three army-controlled roadblocks outside of Houla. The roadblocks had been set up to protect nearby Alawi majority villages from attacks by Sunni militias. The rebel attacks provoked a call for reinforcements by the besieged army units. Syrian army and rebel forces are reported to have engaged in battle for some 90 minutes, during which time dozens of soldiers and rebels were killed.
According to eyewitness accounts, the FAZ report continues,
the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houlas Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houlas population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.
The FAZ report echoes eyewitness accounts collected from refugees from the Houla region by members of the Monastery of St. James in Qara, Syria. According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered entire Alawi families in the village of Taldo in the Houla region.
I have been proven right, yet again, that it is the NATO-U.S. backed rebel sunni mercenary forces that are responsible for the massacres in Syria. This is being used for a pretext with which to interfere militarily in the SOVEREIGN affairs of Syria. This is part of a larger plan set by the CFR, RIIA (Royal Institute for International Affairs) and "think tank" planners, such as, The Brookings Institute's Middle East Policy Center for the Middle East.
source link:Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PQ7CT51Mo]'Rebels behind Houla massacre, US plan to destabilize Syria in full swing' - YouTube[/ame]
