More than 1,000 Syrians cross border into Turkey
9th June 2011
The refugees left the country as the notoriously murderous brother of President Bashar al-Assad has led thousands of Syrian troops towards a mission to wreak vengeance on a rebellious northern town.
That’s some fine Religion o’ Peace™ you got there, Mohammed.
More than 100 residents of Jisr al-Shughur fled across the border to Turkey on Wednesday while others sought sanctuary in the churches and mosques of nearby villages.
‘Sought sanctuary in the churches and mosques’? Sorry, Charlie, that only works against Christians and Jews.
Human rights activists appealed for urgent international pressure on the regime, warning that unless Maher al-Assad was halted, his well-known “thirst for blood” would lead to a massacre.
“The world seems to be standing by as a latter-day Genghis Khan marauds through the country,” one activist in Damascus said.
“Maher is a man with a proven record of butchery for butchery’s sake. He takes a sadistic delight in inflicting human misery.”
Funny how they’ve apparently never had a problem with that before now. I guess they were too busy yelling about Israel.
“If the West was prepared to take action at the last minute to save the people of Benghazi from Gaddafi’s retribution, can they not do something to save the people of Jisr al-Shughur?”
Well, that depends. How much oil do we get from Syria? Not a lot, I’m betting.
Britain and France finally submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on Wednesday following weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations in which Moscow, which has a naval base in the country and regards Mr Assad as an ally, has stubbornly refused to consider international action.
Boy, that U.N. is certainly a useful organization.
Western diplomats indicated Russia was yet to be wholly convinced by the measure, which appeared to be an attempt to expose Moscow to accusations of disregard for human life.
Moscow? Disregard for human life? Why, the very idea!
In an unmistakable message to the Kremlin, David Cameron said in the House of Commons: “If anyone votes against that resolution, or tries to veto it, that should be on their conscience.”
Yeah, that’s a sanction to which the Kremlin has always been sensitive.
What I’m wondering is, whether the Turks will resettle them somehow, or play Arab and just set up ‘refugee camps’ on the border to create an ongoing terrorism problem, as happened with the ‘Palestinians’.