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“If the West really wants to help Syria, it must accept that Assad is going to hold on to power,Cockburn writes. Recognition of this fact should be conditioned on a return home for refugees and an internationally monitored amnesty and freeing of prisoners.” - @LaraMarlowe review https://twitter.com/IrishTimesCultr/status/1294521589103341569
Or as Muhammad Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE previously remarked in his brilliant piece on Cockburn’s take on Syria –“Syria would be at peace.. if all Syrians just re-submitted to regime rule” /2 https://critinq.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/whos-lying-about-syrias-christian-massacre/
Yet @LaraMarlowe praises Cockburn's book –just complains about sloppy editing – but doesn’t seem bothered re his dangerous assertion that #Syrian #refugees can just return to Assad regime ./3
But as human rights campaigners point out,no area of Syria is safe to return to.'There are credible reports of returnees being harassed, detained, tortured and even murdered on their return to Syria'. /4 https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/6/30/denmarks-dangerous-plan-to-deport-syrians-to-assad-controlled-damascus @The_NewArab
.According to @SyrianACD sacd Syrian Association for Citizens' Dignity, '62 percent of returnees or their closest relatives have been subjected to arbitrary detention by Assad’s security forces. It rose to 75 percent in so-called “reconciliation areas” /5 https://syacd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SACD_Vengeance_Repression_and_Fear_Reality_Behind_Assad%E2%80%99s_Promises_to_Displaced_Syrians.pdf
Here @SaharAtrache @RefugeesIntl
says though #Syrians plight desperate #Lebanon
,still won't return willingly to Syria
"I want to give the example of Lebanon, so, you know, people I met who are really living in very, very dire situations, you know, like really unimaginable. /6
says though #Syrians plight desperate #Lebanon
,still won't return willingly to Syria "I want to give the example of Lebanon, so, you know, people I met who are really living in very, very dire situations, you know, like really unimaginable. /6
So these people despite,you know,living in,.. like,not even tents..It’s living in the open air sometimes. Where sewage is, you know, just running next to them..Still didn’t make the decision to go back to Syria"/7
She says that 'for many refugees,it is simply not possible to return home for fear of political oppression for their past dissent against the Syrian regime' /8 https://cgpolicy.org/multimedia/policy-and-livelihoods-a-conversation-on-syrian-refugees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=policy-and-livelihoods-a-conversation-on-syrian-refugees
