And next, Syria?
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Turkiye and Russia agreed again for ceasefire. There was also a ceasefire but it was violated by Syrian regime countless time. I think it wont take too long for them to violate it again and we will probably shot them much harder this time. Does not look like they took some lessons from losing their more than 3000 soldiers in last 1 week.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This march is now off - just in case anyone was planning on attending.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yep, couldn't really see anything else happening tbh
The Impact of Syria’s Fragmentation on COVID-19 Response - Project on Middle East Political Science
Jesse Marks, Tsinghua University and Schwarzman College Syria reported its first COVID-19 cases on March 15 — and has now reported its first coronavirus deaths. Many analysts say the total number of cases is much higher, noting independent reports of coronavirus-like cases in Damascus, Tartus...
pomeps.org
A bit about how covid-19 is likely to affect Syria as well as how the war and the government's fuckery past and present isn't going to help matters.
Torture trial in Germany.
www.aljazeera.com
World’s first Syria torture trial opens in Germany
Two ex-military members accused of torture had been living in Germany as refugees and were arrested over a year ago.
Who are the protesters? Any idea?
teqniq
DisMembered
Syrian civillians, have a look at the thread.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Not seen as many pkk supporters out and about since the car-bomb in Afrin earlier this week. The one in a market that killed at least 40 civilians, 11 of them kids.
Cheers.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Genuine question butchersapron. The YPG and all associated bodies deny involvement in this. They blame either the Turkish army or factions within the jihadist groups. I know that they might say that if it was an attack that went badly wrong, but they might also say it if it were true. How do you know who is telling the truth in a situation where we know everyone is capable of inventing, distorting or ignoring the truth?
The PKK play games with this sort of thing in Turkey. It wasn't us it was that group over there. Ignore the fact they're also us.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Yeah, but that still doesn’t answer the question. All the different sides in these various confrontations also do the same. It doesn’t mean there’s proof of who did what, or why. If you think back to the conflict in Northern Ireland there were at times links between the Provos, the Officials, the INLA etc but also differences, as well as the involvement of loyalist paramilitaries and the British moles/spies/agents provocateurs. This situation in Syria is even more complicated. All I am asking is how you can be so sure?
I'm not but it wouldn't be inconsistent.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Maybe, maybe not. Because you could often say the same thing about events in Turkey in the past. There certainly have been atrocities carried out by ISIS or perhaps the Turkish state which were blamed on the PKK.
By the by, it’s easy to equate the PKK with the YPG as if the whole thing was a homogeneous, hierarchical, authoritarian structure, when it isn’t.
ManchesterBeth
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I think if you look at Abdi's response in distinction to the official YPG one there was no clear denial either.
ManchesterBeth
Well-Known Member
Authoritarian in this context is pretty meaningless but look at any westerner reports of how the organisation functions and you'll see that they have not wholly transcended their marxist-leninist roots, instead adapted to some form of social democracy that refashioned the new Kurdish man and downplays the class struggle. Like Maoists before them they focus on the national contradiction above all else and seek to conquer political representation.
This is doubly ironic given that last year they were eagerly backing the anti-Arab rottenous CHP-Iyi party coalition, and now Akşener is calling them terrorists.
But then, when Stalinism has no peasantry left to industrialise, it just ideologically disintegrates and goes back to defending the existing democratic order, as seen worldwide and many old US left relics becoming Bernie stanners. So again, Authoritarian seems pretty meaningless to me in this context.
Note: not that it matters one bit, but I am Kurdish, for what it's worth.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
For those wanting to follow this have have a look here. All in English, don't worry.Torture trial in Germany.
World’s first Syria torture trial opens in Germany
Two ex-military members accused of torture had been living in Germany as refugees and were arrested over a year ago.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Sadly, not new but. I'll never forget, year on:
Good shout by the way. I think I'm an episode behind but found it informative so far even the weeks without court.
Yet another act of US terrorism.
Rebels my arse,those bastards are Al qaeda and other head hacking maniacs.
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