While Syria’s doomed Assad teeters, “anti-imperialist” pretenders make their last stand

From Nureddin Sabir
Editor, Redress Information & Analysis

The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly denounced the Syrian regime's crackdown on the people's revolution.

The resolution, passed today by 133 in favour, with 12 against and 31 abstentions, says "the first step in the cessation of violence has to be made by the Syrian authorities".

Before the vote, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reminded the assembly of the fresh violence in the city of Aleppo and drew comparisons between the failure to act in Syria and past genocide in Srebrenica and Rwanda.

"The acts of brutality that are being reported may constitute crimes against humanity or war crimes," he said of the Aleppo fighting. "Such acts must be investigated and the perpetrators held to account."

Meanwhile, a tiny but vociferous group of ultra-reactionaries and racists masquerading as "leftists" and "anti-imperialists" continues to poison and disinform on behalf of the doomed sectarian regime of Bashar Assad.

Obsessed with imaginary conspiracies, ridden with empty slogans and determined to fight their armchair pseudo-ideological battles until the last drop of Syrian and other Arab blood, these pretenders are now completely at one with the sectarian Alawite clique that has sold the Syrian Golan Heights to its soulmates in Israel.

In 1967 Bashar Assad's father, Hafez – the butcher of Hama and Tal al-Zaatar – abandoned the Golan Heights to the Israelis without a fight. Now Bashar – the butcher of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and all of Syria – has told the Israelis they can keep the Golan in return for convincing the Americans that his regime is the best guarantor of Israel's security on the northern border.

But no more. The Assad regime is doomed. Just as the light of day is sure to follow the darkness of night, it will fall and with it the self-styled "leftist" and "anti-imperialist" pretenders will be exposed for the ultra-reactionary fascists that they are.

The Arab people has erupted and there is no rolling back of their intifada.

But freedom and justice have never been cheap. Along our path to liberation there will be many rivers of blood to cross and mountains of propaganda, disinformation and lies to demolish – the fossilized scum of the ultra-reactionay pretenders and their Russian, Chinese and regional sectarian godfathers.

Soon Aleppo, Homs, Hama and all of Syria will be liberated.

The Syrian people will be free – free to exrcise their inalienable civil and political rights and free at last to liberate the Golan Heights from the terrorists and colonists of the Zionist entity.

And beyond Syria, progressive forces all over the world will be free to build genuine grassroots movements with justice and democracy at their core, unshackled and cleansed from the Stalinists, reactionaries and fascists.

For more information, see:

• Henry Lowi, "Storming the Bastille in Syria"
• Phan Binh, "Libya and Syria: when anti-imperialism goes wrong"
• Nureddin Sabir, "Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reactions to the Libyan and Syrian revolutions"

The last days of Syrian butcher Assad's regime – and of his Western supporters!

From Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Information & Analysis:

We are witnessing the last days of Bashar "The Butcher" Assad, the Alawite sectarian dictator ruling Syria. Slowly but surely, the revolutionaries of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are closing in on his vipers’ nests.

Three days ago a massive bomb, pre-positioned by FSA fighters, exploded during a meeting of Assad's top henchmen – Defence Minister Dawud Rajiha, Deputy Defence Minister and Assad brother-in-law Asif Shawkat, Deputy Vice-President Hassan Turkmani and security services chief Hisham Ikhtiar.

For nearly a week now, the revolutionaries have been fighting regime forces and Shabiha thugs in Damascus. The fact that they have been able to sustain the fight right in the centre of the capital is a clear sign that the noose is tightening around the butcher Assad's neck.

Any day, any week, any month now, it will be over and Assad will be all over our television screens – a pathetic, lifeless corpse or sliming his way down the steps of a plane in Moscow or Beijing.

Yet, here in the West, lurking in the darkest corners of ignorance – on the internet and on the English-language propaganda television channels of Russia and Iran, RT and Press TV, cynics and self-styled "anti-imperialists" and some "leftists" continue to pour out their bile and poisonous disinformation in defence of Syria's doomed dictator.

They know who they – we won't waste our time engaging with them in interminable, futile debates. But very soon history will judge them, and the inexorable march of the Arab Awakening will expose them and confine them to the dustbin of history, forever.

Below we bring to your attention three important articles that analyse the delusions and motives behind these reactionary, self-serving enemies of the Arab people:

• Henry Lowi, "Storming the Bastille in Syria"
• Phan Binh, "Libya and Syria: when anti-imperialism goes wrong"
• Nureddin Sabir, "Cynicism and black propaganda: the left's reactions to the Libyan and Syrian revolutions"

Syrian army executes prisoners, desecrates their corpses

This graphic footage, purportedly filmed by Syrian security forces loyal to Bashar al-Asad in March 2012, depicts what appears to be a field execution of 15 men in the Idlib countryside. The living are bound and shot; the corpses are then dragged, shot again, and exploded for the entertainment of the troops filming this video. It was leaked and uploaded by Syrian democracy activists on 7 June 2012.

Protests in Syria

بيان المنظمة السـورية لحقوق الإنســـان

المنظمة السـورية لحقوق الإنســـان - سـواسـية

لكل فرد حق في الحياة والحرية وفي الأمان على شخصه
( المادة /3/ من الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان)

لكل شخص حق التمتع بحرية الرأي والتعبير ويشمل هذا الحق حريته باعتناق الآراء دون مضايقة وفي التماس الأنباء والأفكار وتلقيها ونقلها إلى الآخرين بأية وسيلة ودونما اعتبار للحدود.
( المادة 19 من الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنســان (

لا يجوز اعتقال أي إنسان أو حجزه أو نفية تعســفاً
( المادة /9/ من الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان (



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في إطار الحملة الأمنية الجائرة  التي تخوضها الأجهزة الأمنية و شبه الأمنية  المنفلتة من عقالها في سوريا  بحق نشطاء المجتمع المدني  و المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان.

 فقد أقدم جهاز المخابرات العسكرية " الفرع – 291 –   في تمام الساعة التاسعة من صباح يوم الجمعة الواقع في 18/11/2011   على اعتقال الطالب الجامعي  الزميل



بحر عبد الرزاق



 " عضو المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان "

و ذلك بعد ثلاثة أيام من المراجعة الدورية و لمدة اثنا عشر ساعة يومياً  للفرع المذكور في خطوة  تعبّر عن الإصرار على النهج التصعيدي القمعي  بحق المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان  و أنصار الحرية و الديمقراطية و الكرامة الإنسانية   في سوريا

تدين المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان هذا النهج الشائن للسلطات السورية القائم على الاعتقال و الخطف و الإخفاء و الإقصاء و التعذيب و مؤخراً القتل خارج إطار القانون

و تبدي قلقها الشديد على مصير الزميل و المدون  بحر عبد الرزاق   و تذكر السلطات السورية بأن إجرائها يصطدم بالتزاماتها بموجب العهد الدولي الخاص بالحقوق المدنية و السياسية و الاتفاقية الدولية لمناهضة التعذيب و غيره من ضروب المعاملة القاسية و بإعلان الأمم المتحدة الصادر في ديسمبر عام 1998 والخاص بحماية المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان و بتوصيات اللجنة المعنية بالمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان لا سيما الفقرة السادسة من توصيات اللجنة بدورتها الرابعة والثمانين ( تموز 2005 ) و كذلك الفقرة الثانية عشر من هذه التوصيات والتي تطالب الدولة الطرف(سورية ( بأن تطلق فورا سراح جميع الأشخاص المحتجزين بسبب أنشطتهم في مجال حقوق الإنسان و أن تضع حدا لجميع ممارساتها في المضايقة والترهيب التي يتعرض لها المدافعون عن حقوق الإنسان

تطالب المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان  السلطات الأمنية السورية بإطلاق سراح الزميل و المدون بحر عبد الرزاق مع كافة معتقلي الرأي و الضمير بسوريا و الشروع  فوراً بمبادرات إعادة الثقة ما بين النظام السياسي و المجتمع و التي تبدأ بإعادة الجيش لثكناته و حل المليشيات غير النظامية و كف يد الأجهزة الأمنية عن رقاب الناس  و إطلاق سراح السجناء السياسيين دونما استثناء و الاعتراف بالمطالب المشروعة للشعب السوري و التي تجلت مع نسائم الربيع العربي و التي تحلم  بدولة مدنية تعددية و دستور عصري ديمقراطي  لا يقيم حاكم أبدي يقوم على الاعتراف بالكرامة الإنسانية و الحقوق الأساسية للمواطن السوري.

كما تناشد المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان كافة الهيئات و المؤسـسات العاملة في مجال حقوق الإنسان تحمل مسؤولياتها تجاه الزميل و الطالب الجامعي و المدون  بحر عبد الرزاق  و القيام بكل ما يلزم للوقوف إلى جانبه في قضيته العادلة.



دمشق 22/11/2011                                                        مجلس الإدارة

Statement by political prisoners on hunger strike at Adra prison, Syria

Hunger strike by political prisoners at Adra prison, Syria

Thirty-fourth anniversary of October 1973 War

Lest we forget

In memory of the Egyptian and Syrian servicemen who gave their lives to liberate their lands from the Zionist occupiers and their American patrons.

In memory of the Moroccan servicemen and the Palestinian fighters who fought in the war of liberation on the eastern front.

In memory of the Iraqi and Jordanian servicemen who came to the aid of their Syrian brothers.

What is taken by force can be recovered only by force.