Thoughts and Notes by the FST Team: A letter to the “Civilised West”

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A letter to the “Civilised West”

Dear Civilised West,

When the Syrian uprising erupted in march 2011, you had a great chance to start a new era of peace and trust with the Arab and Muslim world, by deciding, then, to stand with the legitimate demands of the Syrian people and protect them from the war waged on them by the Assad regime!

Sadly, you didn’t see the chance even when some of us tried their best to show it to you! We hope the future won’t show you how foolish you were!

Now, after letting Syrian people alone facing the murderous Assad regime, and the last horrendous crime of using chemical weapons against them, you might still have a chance to, at least, save what is left of trust in you and your human rights claims, namely by stopping this murderous regime once and for all!

We are being terrorised, unlawfully detained, tortured and mass-murdered by a regime that has lost its legitimacy, a regime responsible for the death of more than 100,000 human beings, the displacement of more than 4,000,000 million and almost 1,500,000 refugees, a regime that already terrorised neighbouring nations by threatening them of chaos and a massive “earthquake that will burn the region” according to Bashar Assad! Is that not TERRORISM that you are supposed to fight!?

Dear Civilised West,

Some of your leaders claimed that they won’t let Assad cross certain red lines they’ve set for him, it seems they were just kidding, apparently he believes so, and to be frank, we also don’t think they are serious!

Some of us even think that those leaders are collaborating with Assad to suffocate our aspirations for freedom, dignity and justice. Sadly, considering all that happened so far and what’s going on, they might be right!

Last, we believe justice, human rights and the right to live and be safe must be universal, not only on your side of the borders!

Best regards,

Someone who is not killed… yet!

Hammam

أطفال سوريا يعانون بشكل كبير من العنف، كما تقول منظمة أنقذوا الأطفال

ذا هافينغتون بوست بريطانيا The Huffington Post UK/ جيسيكا إلغوت Jessica Elgot

19 حزيران / يوليو 2013

قامت منظمة “أنقذوا الأطفال” Save the Children الخيرية بنشر صور مروعة لأطفال مهجرين هاربين من الحرب الأهلية في سوريا. استمر في القراءة

A Statement from Jobar’s Medical Point regarding the Chemical Attack

This is a statement from Jobar’s Medical Point regarding events that took place at the early hours of dawn today.

The front of Ain Tarma and Jobar in Eastern Ghouta was bombarded with chemical weapons.
The catastrophe was of huge proportions. The scale of casualties and injuries was massive. We exhausted our supplies of Atropine and Hydrocortisone in Jobar.

 

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وجوه من الثورة السورية: قاسم محمود حماد

Kassem

قاسم محمود حماد هو ابن سراقب من مواليد 26 نوفمبر 1976 قاسم لم يكمل دراسته الإعدادية و بدأ مشوار الاغتراب منذ عام 1996 الى الجزائر ثم عاد الى سوريا فترة وجيزة ليعادود مشوار الاغتراب لأكثر من 10 سنوات . عاد قاسم الى سوريا ابن الثورة في قبيل تحرير سراقب بقليل بدا هادئا أول قدومه أخذ فترة جيدة في قراءة الواقع ثم بدا العمل بانشاء المنتدى الثقافي الاجتماعي . اذا قرر الاتجاه نحو الثقافة و جمع اقطاب البلد المتفرقة ضمن مشاريع حوار للوصول الى نتيجة , لم يلبث بعدها أن إنجر و أصبح قطبا فيها . استشهد بتاريخ 27 – 7 – 2013 نتيجة القصف الجوي على المدينة .

Faces from the Syrian Revolution: Qassem Mahmoud Hammad

Kassem

Qassem Mahmoud Hammad, of Saraqeb, was born on November 26, 1976. Qassem was a middle school drop-out. He first left Syria, emigrating to Algeria, in 1996. He went back to Syria briefly thereafter, only to leave again for ten years. Qassem was a son of the Syrian Revolution, and relocated to Syria briefly before Saraqeb was liberated. He initially kept a low-profile and took his time absorbing the new realities surrounding him. It was not long before he set out on creating The Social Cultural Forum, with the vision of focusing on culture and bringing together the conflicting parties at the town into civilized, fruitful debates; an initiative that saw him become one of these parties himself. Qassem was martyred on July 27, 2013, as a result of aerial bombardment on Saraqeb.