Thursday, August 15, 2013

சிரியா: ஒவ்வொரு மாதமும் 5000 முஸ்லீம்கள் அல்லாஹூ அக்பர் என்று ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை கவலை


சிரியாவில் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே தன்னை எதிர்க்கும் முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்வதில் சாதனை படைத்துள்ளது என்று தெரிகிறது. ஒவ்வொரு மாதமும் 5000க்கும் மேற்பட்ட முஸ்லீம்கள் அல்லாஹூ அக்பர் ஆகிறார்கள்.

இதுவரை இரண்டு லட்சத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட முஸ்லீம்கள் சிரியாவில் கொல்லப்பட்டிருக்கிறார்கள் என்று அறிக்கைகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.

தவறான மார்க்கம். தவறான சிந்தனை, தவறான விளைவு. அமைதி மார்க்கம் என்று தங்களைத்தாங்களே ஏமாற்றிகொண்டு மற்றவர்களையும் ஏமாற்றிகொண்டிருக்கிறார்கள்.


Syria death toll hits 5,000 a month: UN

AFP Jul 17, 2013, 06.18AM IST
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UNITED NATIONS (United States): Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria's war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said onTuesday.
A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the two-year-old conflict, in which up to 100,000 people are believed to have died.
The extremely high rate of killings nowadays — approximately 5,000 a month — demonstrates the drastic deterioration of the conflict," UN assistant secretary general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told a council meeting.
"In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule," Simonovic declared.
Nearly 1.8 million people are now registered with the United Nations in countries around Syria and an average of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, UN High Commissioner for RefugeesAntonio Guterres said.
"We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago," Guterres added.
More than two million Rwandans fled the 1994 genocide, in which radical Hutus killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a period of about three months.
Guterres said the acceptance of refugees by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and other countries was "saving hundreds of thousands of lives."
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the international community may have to consider cross-border operations to get aid into Syria.
Amos added that $3.1 billion was still needed for operations in and around Syria for the rest of the year.
She said four million people inside Syria need assistance and "considerable restraints" have been imposed on aid agencies by the government and rebel groups.
Amos highlighted the Old City in Homs, where the government has stepped up a siege in the past month. The United Nations estimates that 2,500 civilians are trapped there.
"Opposition groups have so far not enabled them safe passage to leave, and the government of Syria has refused to allow agencies to deliver assistance into the Old City," she said.
Amos appealed for the lifting of bureaucratic obstacles but also the designation of "priority humanitarian routes" and prior notification of military offensives.
Amos said there should be "humanitarian pauses" to allow aid access and "cross-border operations, as appropriate."
The Syrian government is opposed to any cross-border aid, as is Russia, a veto-wielding member of the Security Council and a key international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey, a staunch supporter of the rebels, backed the call for such aid.
"The council needs to consider alternative forms of aid delivery, including cross-border operations," Turkey's deputy UN ambassador Leven Eler said.
Eler said the Syria crisis was turning into "the biggest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century."
Lebanon's UN ambassador Nawaf Salam told the meeting it was now "urgent" for the Security Council to act on the refugee crisis.

"Increasing cross-border fire and incursions from Syria in Lebanon are threatening the security and stability of my country," he told the 15 ambassadors on the council.
In the latest such incident, mortar fire from inside Syria hit the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights on Tuesday as Syrian rebels and regime forces battled nearby, an AFP correspondent reported.
In a letter of protest, Israel's UN envoy Ron Prosor warned that while Israel had so far shown "maximum restraint" over such incidents, it would "continue to exercise its right to self-defense."
Salam said the UN has registered 607,908 refugees in Lebanon, but the government estimates the true figure at 1.2 million. He estimated the number would grow 20-fold during 2013.
Lebanon has a population of about four million, and he said the influx was the equivalent of 75 million refugees flooding the United States.
Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari disputed the UN death toll as "unprofessionally sourced" and criticized the use of an American company to collect data.
But Simonovic said that "rigorous" methods had been used to check a death toll of more than 92,900 given one month ago.
He said each death was checked by name and date and cross-checked with at least three sources.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has since said that up to 100,000 people have been killed in Syria.

எகிப்து: முஸ்லீம்களே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்வதில் 500க்கும் மேற்பட்டவர்கள் பலி

சிரியாவில் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்வதில் இதுவரை ஒரு லட்சத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட முஸ்லீம்கள் அல்லாஹூ அக்பர் ஆகியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

இப்போது எகிப்திலும் முஸ்லீம் அரசாங்கமே முஸ்லீம்களை கொல்ல ஆரம்பித்திருக்கிறது.

Death toll in Egypt hits 525 as government declares state of emergency after bloody clashes

The Obama administration issued a statement that it 'strongly condemns' the crackdown. Egyptian expats in New York fretted over the tragedy unfolding in their homeland — and cursed the Muslim Brotherhood.

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A police vehicle, which fell 50 feet to the ground, is pushed off a bridge by protesters Wednesday.

ALY HAZZAA/AP

A police vehicle, which fell 50 feet to the ground, is pushed off a bridge by protesters Wednesday.

Egypt’s military-backed leader declared a state of emergency Wednesday after at least 525 people were killed in bloody clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The worst of the chaos was in Cairo, where fierce street battles raged and Muslim Brotherhood members, determined to restore Morsi to power, at one point occupied the Finance Ministry and took hostages.
The officers in the vehicle were scattered like rag dolls as it hit the pavement.

SABRY KHALED/AP

The officers in the vehicle were scattered like rag dolls as it hit the pavement.

In one of the most savage incidents, Morsi backers pushed an armored police van off a bridge, sending it plunging 50 feet and scattering the cops like rag dolls when it hit the ground.
The U.S. ordered its Cairo embassy temporarily closed and the Obama administration issued a statement saying it “strongly condemns” the crackdown.
A protester comforts a wounded colleague after Egyptian security forces began to clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo Wednesday. 

AHMED GOMAA/AP

A protester comforts a wounded colleague after Egyptian security forces began to clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo Wednesday. 

Among the dead were veteran British TV cameraman Mick Deane, 61, Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a 26-year-old reporter for the Dubai newspaper Xpress, and the 17-year-old daughter of a top Muslim Brotherhood leader.
The death toll in Cairo is rising, with more than 3,572 others injured, as government troops attempted to clear our two camps of protesters.

ENGY IMAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

The death toll in Cairo is rising, with more than 3,572 others injured, as government troops attempted to clear our two camps of protesters.

At least 3,717 people were wounded.
Interim President Adly Mansour also clamped a curfew on his country, saying it was necessary because security was threatened by “deliberate acts of sabotage, attacks on public and private installations, and the killing of citizens by elements of the extremist groups.”
Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo that have left more than 50 dead, including a Sky News cameraman.

HASSAN AMMAR/AP

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during clashes with Egyptian security forces in Cairo that have left more than 50 dead, including a Sky News cameraman.

His government claimed 43 police officers were killed by protesters.
British TV cameraman Mick Deane was shot dead. 

SKY NEWS/AP

British TV cameraman Mick Deane was shot dead. 

But Mansour’s move cost him a key ally when Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei — a Nobel Peace Prize laureate — resigned in protest.
On a section of Steinway St. in Astoria in Queens, known as “Little Egypt,” worried expats fretted over the tragedy unfolding in their homeland — and cursed the Muslim Brotherhood.
The U.S. has closed its Cairo embassy.

SABRY KHALED/AP

The U.S. has closed its Cairo embassy.

“Hopefully, this is done as fast as it can,” said 30-year-old Hany Malak, who was smoking a hookah and watching the TV coverage at Arab Community Center.
Malak is a Coptic Christian — an oppressed minority in mostly Muslim Egypt.
Egyptian security forces carry an injured comrade after a police crackdown on a protest camp.

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Egyptian security forces carry an injured comrade after a police crackdown on a protest camp.

“This is the only way to deal with people like the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
Dead bodies of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi lie in a room in a field hospital at the Rabaa Adawiya mosque.

AMR ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS

Dead bodies of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi lie in a room in a field hospital at the Rabaa Adawiya mosque.

Gamal Dewidar, 54, owner of the El Khayan hookah bar, had even less use for the Islamists — and he’s a Muslim.
“The army is doing their job to correct the country and to save the country from what’s going on in the streets,” he said. “If I was in charge in Egypt, I would do exactly the same.”
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shouts slogans as riot police clear Rabaa Adawiya square.

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A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi shouts slogans as riot police clear Rabaa Adawiya square.

The crackdown began at dawn. Within hours, the skies over Cairo were black with smoke and echoed with the sounds of gunfire, as armored military vehicles and bulldozers cleared protesters from the encampment near the pro-Morsi Rabbah al-Adawiya Mosque.
Roughly 3,572 people have been wounded in the clashes.

SABRY KHALED/AP

Roughly 3,572 people have been wounded in the clashes.

With military helicopters hovering overhead, Morsi backers ran for cover — their screams drowned out by the whoop-whoop of the propellers.
“Helicopters from the top and bulldozers from below,” Saleh Abdulaziz, a 39-year-old teacher who was bleeding from a head wound, told Reuters. “They smashed through our walls. Police and soldiers, they fired tear gas at children. They continued to fire at protesters even when we begged them to stop.”
Interim President Adly Mansour declared a monthlong state of emergency and imposed a curfew while he dispatched the Army to help police restore order and protect government buildings.

KHALED ELFIQI/EPA

Interim President Adly Mansour declared a monthlong state of emergency and imposed a curfew while he dispatched the Army to help police restore order and protect government buildings.

Soldiers also fired from the rooftops on the terrified people below, many of them women and children desperate to escape. But there was nowhere to run — the soldiers had sealed off all the streets surrounding the camp.
“Tear gas [canisters] were falling from the sky like rain,” protester Khaled Ahmed, 20, told the news service. “There are no ambulances inside. They closed every entrance.”
The government said 43 police officers were killed by protesters.

KHALED ELFIQI/EPA

The government said 43 police officers were killed by protesters.

With tears streaming down his face, Ahmed said, “There are women and children in there. God help them. This is a siege, a military attack on a civilian protest camp.”
Egyptian officials insisted security forces showed the “utmost degree of self-restraint,” especially given “the volume of weapons and violence directed against the security forces.”
Video footage on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya showed black-clad police officers seizing ammunition and weapons from the encampment.
But witnesses said it appeared to be a one-sided fight and that soldiers shot at least 20 people in the legs who had rushed there to help.
At least a dozen journalists covering the crisis reported that police detained, beat and threatened to shoot them.
Bloody street battles were also waged in other Egyptian cities like Minya, Assiut, Marsa Matruh and Suez, where military snipers were videotaped firing on demonstrators from rooftops.
Morsi, who was Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted July 3 and is in the army’s hands. Since then, Egypt has been engulfed in chaos.
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