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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 09:40 AM Dec 2016

'Save us': Aleppo civilians plead for help as airstrikes resume

Source: The Guardian

'Save us': Aleppo civilians plead for help as airstrikes resume

Call for international community to put a stop to fighting as
evacuation of civilians from stricken city blocked by militias


Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul
Wednesday 14 December 2016 13.23 GMT

Desperate residents in the remaining pockets of rebel-held Aleppo reacted with mounting horror and anguish as shelling and airstrikes resumed in the city, hours after a ceasefire and evacuation deal offered them hope of escape.

Doctors and other civilians, who hours earlier expressed cautious optimism that they would be able to leave east Aleppo, have again implored the international community to put a stop to the fighting that has left their homes in ruins and allow them to seek a safe haven elsewhere.

Thousands of civilians are still trapped in a small enclave of east Aleppo, bereft of basic supplies like food, electricity and water and without any functioning hospitals.

A ceasefire agreed on Tuesday by Turkish intelligence and the Russian military was to have permitted evacuations to Idlib province to begin on Wednesday morning, but Turkish and rebel officials said the Iranian-backed militias who had spearheaded the Assad government’s assault on rebel-held Aleppo were not permitting civilians to leave. The Turkish Red Crescent said nearly 1,000 people were being held at a militia checkpoint.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/14/aleppo-civilians-plea-as-airstrikes-resume-syria
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'Save us': Aleppo civilians plead for help as airstrikes resume (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2016 OP
Tragic and unconscionable. CentralMass Dec 2016 #1
My heart breaks for them... Docreed2003 Dec 2016 #2
You're wrong atreides1 Dec 2016 #3
We're on the same page here... Docreed2003 Dec 2016 #4

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
2. My heart breaks for them...
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 10:13 AM
Dec 2016

This atrocity has stained our society, and rightfully so. We helped create this situation, and now we are reaping what we have sown. We have allowed the Syrian/Russian govts to do this, and I get it, the situation in Syria could very well lead to WWIII, but we have stood on the sidelines and now this type of suffering is what we see. My heart breaks for the civilians who are being killed indiscriminately in the name of state superiority.

atreides1

(16,046 posts)
3. You're wrong
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 10:52 AM
Dec 2016

It's the people of Syria who are reaping what the US government has sown...those bombs aren't falling on us, those destroyed hospitals aren't in any US cities, the children being killed are Syrian not American!

The reality is that the US should have gotten more involved, or just stayed out of it...sitting on the fence, insisting that Assad had to go, not knowing which rebel group was just a front for ISIL, all of that helped to create the catastrophe in Syria and made it even worse!!!

Those people are being killed to send a message to the next group of would be rebels...THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES,TOO!!!!

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
4. We're on the same page here...
Wed Dec 14, 2016, 11:04 AM
Dec 2016

I'm just as outraged at the loss of life as you are. I just feel that we could/should have done more. No doubt the Syrian govt is doing this to send a message, but at the end of the day our inaction did not thing to help these innocents. That was my point. I think we both can agree that this absolute atrocity is a stain on those who supposedly stand for "freedom".

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