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Feb 9, 2023 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Syria, the Earthquake, humanitarian aid, sanctions. A long 🧵with facts and context:
1) While BLOCKING the UN from sending aid across Turkish-Syrian border, Assad's regime calls for lifting sanctions targeting human rights abusers, falsely claiming sanctions prevent humanitarian aid from reaching earthquake victims that Assad spent past 12 years bombing.
Mar 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Who is Marriane Gasser, newly appointed head of @UNEnvoySyria's Damascus office?
- Celebrated Assad's brutal "liberation" of Aleppo (i.e. mass atrocities)
- Denied UN claim of forced displacement war crime
- Couldn't deny claim that White Helmets "stage scenes"
Here's Ms. Gasser on 12/2/2016, then head of the "neutral" @ICRC in regime controlled W. Aleppo (left), celebrating Assad's "liberation" of E. Aleppo (right).
On that day, 18 civilians (6 kids) were killed by Russian & Assad airstrikes, & hundreds of civilians were displaced.
Feb 29, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Military force is always a last resort. It's apparent #Turkey came to conclusion that Russia & Assad will continue to break ceasefire agreements. Military force is only way to protect #Idlib's 3.5 million & halt worst humanitarian crisis of our time. World should support Turkey.
Diplomatic agreements between Turkey & Russia all failed. Astana, Sochi, & multiple ceasefires since resulted in more Russian & Assad regime attacks which forced 1,000,000 people from their homes. Hospitals, schools, markets continued to be bombed. What choices were left?
Oct 7, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is rich, coming from one of the most dishonest US officials I have ever engaged with.
McGurk is the US official most responsible for disinformation about Syria, and almost completely to blame for this mess we face today.
In the name of fighting ISIS, McGurk empowered PMF (Iranian-backed terrorists), YPG (a separatist Kurdish militia with terrorist ties), and ignored continuing slaughter of Syrians by Assad, while giving Turkey the middle finger when they expressed concerns about their security.
