Assad’s "triumph" in Darayya

Assad’s "triumph" in Darayya
In 2011, the Syrian city of Darayya had around a quarter of a million people. In 2016, eight thousands remained in the city after 7000 TNT barrels by the Assad jets. No day passed without having its name mentioned in news bulletins for the past five years. Seven kilometers from Assad "palace" and his "Republican Guard" and it did not surrender.

“Kneel or Starve” was the motto the Assad regime used with the people of Darayya. Despite the UN intervention, the regime thugs literally implemented the threat, but the city did not surrender. 

Few days ago, the eight thousand people remaining in Darayya were presented with an ultimatum; they had one of three options: evacuate, starve to death or be burned to death by Napalm−Assad’s latest weapon against Syrians. 

The Russians, the Americans and the UN failed to save those eight thousand but helped facilitate their evacuation.

The Assad media and affiliates started taking about LIBERATING the city immediately after their departure. The media called this population transfer, or ethnic cleansing, liberation.

Liberation in wars usually comes after a victory over an enemy not after a siege of natives of the homeland and starving them to death. And this war was the choice and decision of one party (the regime), not two parties as things in war usually go.

When the Assad media realized the inappropriateness of the term "liberation", they started using the term "settlement" without being aware that the two terms contradict each other; because if you liberate something from an enemy, you have to liberate the area they were in, but if you reach a settlement with them, you haven’t defeated them but you blackmailed them using starvation and they reached a settlement with you to save their women and children−supposedly−your people.

Actually, it is neither “liberation” nor a “settlement. It is not a settlement, because when you reach a settlement it comes out of care about the safety of the city and the lives of the population. In the case of Darayya, the city is in ruins, and the population was annihilated except for these eight thousand. It is not a victory, because you would not bring air conditioned buses to transport the party you defeated to another place whatever it is. What happened in Darayya is no less than a war crime, because siege and starvation of a population are war crimes. And this transfer is ethnic cleansing, according to international law and any law of the land.

Due to a great deal of media confusion and a detrimental failure to defend the undefendable, TV stations loyal to the Assad regime claimed that there were rebel fighters in Darayya affiliated to al-Qaeda but they themselves got experts and analysts who said that all fighters in Darayya were locals and young men defending their families against the brutality of the Assad regime. 

These days, the Assad regime is repeating the same criminal act in other areas in Syria with the help of the Russian air bombardment and Iranian militias.

These days also the UN is discussing the report about the regime’s use of chemical weapons against its population; and Russia is taking the same stand it took in 2013, when it used the Veto to protect the criminals.

When the Assad regime can get away with all the crimes it has perpetrated, and with the compliance of the Russians and looseness of the international community, it can call what happened in Darayya a victory, a settlement or even a humanitarian act. 

As long as this world is walking on its head, peace would not have a chance, and bloodshed in Syria will continue. Bloodshed, however, will not be limited to the geography of Syria.

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