Posted on 04/26/2018 2:32:11 AM PDT by Cronos
..Idlib is the last major territory still in rebel hands. It is partly held by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a jihadi group that Russia and the Syrian government regard as a legitimate target in an area where civilians and fighters continue to pour in as part of evacuation deals in other parts of the country.
Jan Egeland, the head of the UN’s humanitarian task force for Syria, said: “All my energies currently and in the coming weeks are dedicated to averting a fresh humanitarian disaster.”
He described Idlib as “one giant area of displacement”. “More than half of the population in Idlib of 2 million have already been displaced, sometimes multiple times, so there has to be a negotiated end to the conflict in Idlib. You cannot have a war in the midst of the largest cluster of refugee camps and displaced people in the world,” he said.
“My fear is the Syrian government will say the place is filled with ‘terrorists’ and therefore you can wage war like they did during the sieges in Aleppo and eastern Ghouta … Yes, there are bad guys wearing beards, but there are many more women and children and they deserve protection. You cannot wage war as if everyone is a terrorist, or else will it be a nightmare.”
...Egeland said: “The Syrian civil war has lasted two years longer than the second world war, and far from 2017 and early 2018 becoming a moment when the war wound down, the crisis has escalated.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Exactly. Without foreign interference, foreign money, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Red Lines, the Proxy conflicts, the arming of the “rebels” by the US and it’s allies, etc, this would have been over a long time ago.
As for Idlib, surround the city and starve them out.
So when have the bad guys wearing beards ever cared about women and Children? Other than for using as human shields or for staging alleged atrocities for the cameras.
Yup. Assad is at the point of ending this 7 years of hell.
Sounds like another false flag chemical attack is in the near future.
“You cannot wage war as if everyone is a terrorist, “
Sure you can.
L
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.