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1/ On March 7, 2025, an Alawite hecatomb: humanity butchered in blood-soaked rituals, perpetrators proudly filming their infernal spectacle. Women wailed in horror as children were dragged from homes and slaughtered alongside husbands, fathers, and grandfathers.
2/ Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, absurdly recognized internationally as Syria’s "legitimate security forces," proudly broadcasted their atrocities: civilians forced to crawl, bark, beg—until bullets silenced their pleas; women’s and children’s bodies piled into a grotesque monument.
3/ Yet, mainstream media sanitized this massacre into oblivion. AP News callously reduced it: "Clashes in Syria between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 200." Victims erased, slaughter obscured, murderers legitimized. Image
4/ Al Jazeera perpetuated the lie, blandly labeling a genocidal bloodletting as mere "clashes," deliberately obscuring the truth, and hiding accountability behind a veil of journalistic cowardice. Image
5/ The United Nations, in willful blindness, ignored today's apocalypse, instead fixating on geopolitical ghost stories: "Post-Assad Syria faces critical test over eliminating chemical weapons." Detached from reality, morally bankrupt in response to atrocity. Image
6/ Amnesty International—purported champions of human rights—remain deafeningly silent. Thousands of recent posts, yet not one acknowledges the March 7 massacre. Human rights selectively upheld; inconvenient slaughter ignored. Image
7/ The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cloaked atrocities in deliberate ambiguity: "240 people were killed, died and were martyred in different circumstances." No justice, no dignity, only bureaucratic neutrality toward genocide. Image
8/ The pinnacle of hypocrisy emerges in the international community's embrace of murderers. German FM @ABaerbock , self-proclaimed advocate of a "feminist foreign policy," eagerly legitimized HTS leader Jolani—even after his extremist disdain publicly rejected her handshake. Image
9/ Two Months before this slaughter, Baerbock brazenly urged Syrian minorities to disarm and surrender to Jolani. Countless women now bear witness to unimaginable horrors, having watched their beloved slaughtered by the very force Baerbock endorsed. Image
10/ Today, on International Women’s Day, Alawite mothers mourn in unspeakable anguish, their children butchered, their husbands and sons erased in Syria’s bloodiest massacre in years. This was not just mass murder—it was the calculated destruction of a people’s continuity, the annihilation of a generation essential to their survival.
11/ This was genocide not only by extermination but by erasure—designed to sever identity, and strip the victims even of the dignity of remembrance.

Yet the greatest crime is not just the butchery itself, but its concealment. Sanitized by media euphemisms and diplomatic cowardice, this atrocity has been washed of its horror, its perpetrators granted legitimacy by an international community whose silence is complicity.
12/ And that silence has been understood as approval. The massacre has not stopped. At this very moment, a mass killing operation is underway in the Qusour neighborhood of Baniyas, where Alawite and Christian families are being dragged from their homes and executed in the streets. Among the dead, once again, are children.

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Aug 3
Eleven years ago, ISIS came to Sinjar. They called the Yazidis infidels. Men were lined up and shot. Women chained and sold in markets. Children stolen. It was meant to erase them from the earth.
A thread, 🧵 Image
Thousands fled to the mountain. No food. No water. A slow death awaited. /2 Image
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[Thread 1/5] English subtitles of Al-Hadath’s interview with SDF General Mazloum Abdi:

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The highly anticipated Paris meeting between the Syrian interim government, SDF, and DAANES officials, which was supposed to be brokered by Macron, was postponed indefinitely. A lot of wild stories out there on the reasons why. 1/4
Syrian govt officials came in with a set of preconditions that the SDF was expected to accept just to sit at the table:
- SDF to disband / lay down arms
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Jul 23
U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack brokered Trump’s Gulf alliances. Now he’s running PR for a regime that executed civilians in hospital beds—while scheming to dismantle the SDF.

Let's follow the money, and the bodies...🧵Image
1/ Over the past week, Suweyda endured a brutal siege: a city cut off, its people surrounded by thousands of jihadists. Massacres followed. Yet Tom Barrack, is lying through his teeth:

"The world is confused, the Syrian troops haven't gone in the city..."
2/ In 2017, while angling for a senior U.S. diplomatic role, Tom Barrack was secretly lobbying for the UAE—introducing Gulf royals to Trump & Kushner. Charged with obstruction & false statements, he nearly became America’s envoy. Imagine the risk... Image
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Hard to believe, but they held. The jihadist wave came like a flood, trucks full of zealots chanting for blood, believing Suwayda would fall by nightfall. But the Druze didn’t scatter. They stood. They bled. They fought for every inch. A thread, 🧵 Image
2/ They poured in from all over [MAP] — until the retreat order came. From none other than Ahmed al-Sharaa, the self-declared “President of Syria.”
A man who claimed he had no control over the fighters. One order, and the entire murderous circus packed up. The purge ended early. Image
3/ The “experts”, mostly Sharaa (Jolani) apologists in nicer suits, called Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri a troublemaker. Said he had no base. Yet the only ones still holding the line in Suwayda followed him. You don’t get that kind of defense without real backing, or a real cause. Image
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“What’s happening inside Suwayda right now is darker, more vile, and more revolting than anything we’ve seen in the past seven days.”

A thread based on direct testimony from the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. #Suwayda #Syria
2/
“We are witnessing executions, just like the case of Munif, a fighter from northern Aleppo, whose head was severed.”
“They asked me not to publish it. I did. Because this is the truth. So far, we’ve documented 185 summary executions, and counting.”
3/
“The clashes in Suwayda are at their most intense. Fighters have stormed in from Al-Ghayah, just a few kilometers from the Interior Ministry spokesperson now claiming:
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