US at the End of Rope in Syria – Tying a Knot and Holding on

Rasa - If desperate times call for desperate measures, then the United States, its regional partners in crime, and their terror proxy forces which are losing the regime-change war on Syria can act as desperately as they wish.

News ID: 429713

Date: 17 May 2017 - 23:29

RNA - Desperation and feeling lost, however, can technically make the US State Department do surprising things as well: They are now accusing the Syrian government of building a prison crematorium, or what they call a “human slaughterhouse" to cover up alleged mass murders.

This is rubbish, as extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. The State Department cannot alter the state of facts and evidence by simply claiming that the Syrian government tortures and kills detained prisoners en masse – and then “disposes of them in one of the most undignified ways imaginable.”

These are serious allegations and they need to do some evidencing before jumping into any conclusion. It is not enough to claim that “we believe the government has modified a building in the Sednaya prison complex to dispose of prison detainees and to cover up the extent of mass murders” and then expect the world to buy it. The State Department needs to come up with some public, verifiable evidence.

The complex, located about 45 minutes outside of Damascus, is Syria’s largest and most secure prison. But it’s not that hard for human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to send their representatives there to investigate. They can see for themselves that the prison is not for extrajudicial killings or mass hangings, and certainly not for “killing as many as 50 detainees every day.” They are free to examine and deliberate about this nonsense.

They can also see for themselves that the State Department is full of people trying to use whatever trickery they can find in the book to convince themselves of what they hope to be true after the failed war, that the Syrian government has “executed some 13,000 people in Sednaya from 2011 to 2015!”

Contrary to Western fake news, a government that continues to offer amnesty to any Syrians participating in terrorist activities in return for their pledge to lay down arms and permanently return to civilian life or join the fight against terrorism, will never deploy torture tactics including beatings, electrocution and rape, against these prisoners, let alone hammer cities, launch chemical-weapon attacks, starve civilians, commit sexual violence, and deny services like water and medical care. True, an estimated 400,000 people have died in the Syrian war, but not because Syria and allies are fighting terrorists; but because war-party Washington, regional partners in crime, and their terror proxy forces refuse to end the regime-change campaign.

Far from the fake massacres and “human slaughterhouses” reported in the Western “fakestream” media, the Syrian government and its Iranian and Russian allies are handling the situation in an utterly humane fashion. The rationale is that in order for Syria to once again be a peaceful and united country, as it was prior to 2011 when Western provocations triggered the current crisis, there needn’t be any Nuremberg style trials for the terrorists - and prisoners - who continue to lay down arms and return to civilian life.

The Syrian government is also happy for the larger bulk of foreign militants to peacefully leave the country, with many suggesting that Turkey, knowing that her plans for regime change in Damascus have failed, will cooperate in this. All of this is totally logical, except for the idea that the government should torture, rape and kill those who lay down arms and surrender.

The move is clearly one born of humanitarian concerns, and the matter is now in the hands of Syria and its allies. Terrorism cannot be tolerated in any form. This must be the long term and lasting message. Reports say amnestied militants are siding with the Syrian army en masse, while others are being freed and returning to civilian life, admitting that they lay down arms despite threats from ISIL and Al-Qaeda terrorists.

It is a safe conclusion that some civilians had to join terrorist groups against their will, some of them out of despair, others were blackmailed with militants threatening to kill their family members. They had no means of subsistence to feed their families. On the other hand, the terrorist groups’ warehouses were stuffed with Arab-Western aid and weapons, but they distributed it only among the militants’ families. Some civilians had to join their ranks not to die of starvation. That’s why as soon as the allied forces of Iran, Syria, Russia, and Hezbollah launched an offensive, they immediately surrendered to the authorities.

The National Amnesty Law was passed in July 2016. The humanitarian decree issued by President Bashar al-Assad stipulates amnesty for all armed individuals as well as for those who previously avoided prosecution, if they surrender and release those held captive. Under the same decree, all those willing to comply with these terms will not be indicted, much less imprisoned, tortured, raped, killed, and cremated. That a desperate State Department still claims otherwise is increasingly becoming a non-issue; the War Party is at the end of rope in Syria.

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