Middle East country's future is bleak.
by Gwynne Dyer"We, the undersigned armed terrorist groups, hereby promise to stop all violence in Syria and surrender all our weapons to the Syrian regime. We will no longer carry out the orders of Israel, the United States, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who have been financing our campaign of armed terrorism against the Syrian people. Love, the terrorists of the Free Syrian Army."
As soon as Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria gets "written guarantees" from the "armed terrorist groups" to surrender, announced the Syrian foreign ministry on April 8, it will comply with its promise to withdraw its tanks and artillery from rebellious Syrian cities. Sorry, no, there's more. The regime also wants "guarantees of commitment by the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to stop financing the armed terrorist groups."
The United Nations and the Arab League thought they had a deal. The Syrian government had promised the mediator, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, that it would remove all its heavy weapons from urban areas by April 10, and accept a complete ceasefire by the 12th. But then Damascus announced that the international community had been "mistaken" to think that it was really going to pull its troops out.
"Kofi Annan has until now not furnished to the Syrian government written guarantees about the acceptance of the armed terrorist groups to stop violence in all its forms, and their readiness to surrender their weapons so that state authority can spread on all territory," the statement said. In other words, as soon as the pro-democracy side surrenders unconditionally, "peace" — ie, the tyranny of the Baath regime — will be restored…
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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