Statement of the Revolutionary Left Current in Syria on the massacre in the region of East Ghouta resulting from the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime Posted on August 21, 2013<http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/statement-of-the-revolutionary-left-current-in-syria-on-the-massacre-in-the-region-of-east-ghouta-resulting-use-of-chemical-weapons-by-the-assad-regime/>
[image: 282232_374787675932794_1672348593_n-1]<http://syriafreedomforever.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/282232_374787675932794_1672348593_n-11.jpg> At dawn on August 21 2013 hundreds of Syrians have fallen, and among them a huge number of children and women, victims of deadly weapons: poisonous gases and explicit use of chemical weapons, in the regions of East Gouta in the countryside of Damascus, as part of a fierce military attack waged by the regime since this morning on these areas. The list of sufferings and sacrifices of the masses of our people has lengthened after more than two years, it is no longer possible to count the hundreds of thousands of martyrs and wounded, detainees and millions of displaced and refugees. The suffering of our people has continued and it became more unbearable. Cry goes unheeded, and lingers the death silence of the human conscience. Killing and coercion of our people continue, perpetrated by the machine of death and destruction of a regime that exceeds fascism by its savagery. It is a tragedy that the world has not known for a long time, the tragedy of a people revolting for freedom and liberation from the clutches of a dictatorship, from its savage repression and from its savage exploitation of the oppressed in our country, serving the interests of a narrow bourgeois clique. Our revolution has no sincere ally, except the popular revolutions of the region and of the world and of all the militants struggling against regimes of ignorance and servitude and exploitation. This crime is part of the criminal and terrible actions of the ruling juntas against the masses of our people of unarmed civilians in shocking disregard for the human conscience and at a time when the forces of counter-revolution organized an offensive against the revolutions in the region, led by Saudi Arabia and its allies, the regime has found an opportunity to commit the heinous massacre. Yet our rebellious and determined people, proven by his injuries, will continue its resistance against the criminal tyrants, they will inflict a defeat and punishment they deserve for their crimes. We bury our dead and will look after our wounded. We will only be more determined and resolute in our struggle for the fall of the murderous and destructive regime and the victory of our people’s revolution. For the edification of Syria for freedom, justice, equality and social justice No to Washington! No to Moscow! No to Riyadh! No to Tehran! Glory to the martyrs and healing for the wounded and victory of the popular revolution all the power and wealth of the people Revolutionary Left Current in Syria Damascus on August 21, 2013 http://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/statement-of-the-revolutionary-left-current-in-syria-on-the-massacre-in-the-region-of-east-ghouta-resulting-use-of-chemical-weapons-by-the-assad-regime/ Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1300+ Dead after Obama "Green-lights" new CW attack in Syria <http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fclaysbeach.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F08%2F1300-dead-after-obama-green-lights-new.html&media=&guid=xhEYBvthYh53&description=> <http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/> After the top US General, Martin Dempsey, told US Representative Eliot Engel on Monday that the Barack Obama administration opposes intervening militarily in Syria, the Assad regime today slaughtered over a thirteen-hundred Syrians with a chemical weapons attack, most of them women and children. This new sarin gas attack, at 3:00am in Ghouta, Damascus appears to be far more massive than any earlier Syrian chemical weapons attacks and there can be little doubt that it has been spurred on my this recent announcement that the Syrian people could expect no protection from the US. Obama has already shown that his *"red-line"* against Assad chemical weapons use was only so much hot air and on Monday Dempsey wrote<https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowsyrialatestnews/dempsey-opposes-military-action-in-syria> : *"We can destroy the Syrian air force… The loss of Assad's air force would negate his ability to attack opposition forces from the air, but it would also escalate and potentially further commit the United States to the conflict.* AP is reporting<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=VfJnQqGt> : Dempsey: Syrian rebels wouldn't back US interestsBRADLEY KLAPPER Published: Today WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power right now, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Effectively ruling out U.S. cruise missile attacks and other options that wouldn't require U.S. troops on the ground, Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a letter to a congressman that the military is clearly capable of taking out Syrian President Bashar Assad's air force and shifting the balance of the Arab country's 2½-year war back toward the armed opposition. More...<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=VfJnQqGt> Clearly, humanitarian concerns are not at the top of the US list. Neither is the question of what is best for the Syrian people. They will support the side that best serves US [imperialist] interests and that ain't the people fighting Assad. The US could stop these air attacks, including this chemical attack, but it doesn't see it in its interest to do so. It took just two days for the Assad regime to receive this messase and respond accordingly. Faress Jouejati @farGar <https://twitter.com/farGar> Assad may have launched these chemical weapons last night but we all know it's the world who gave him the green light #syria<https://twitter.com/search?q=%23syria&src=hash>CC @barackobama <https://twitter.com/BarackObama> 11:34 AM - 21 Aug 2013<https://twitter.com/farGar/statuses/370222409087205376> Reuters is reporting<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130821> this morning: Opposition says as many as 1,300 killed in gas attack near Damascus By Dominic Evans and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BEIRUT/AMMAN | Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:32am EDT Syria's opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of gassing many hundreds of people - by one report as many as 1,300 - on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world's worst chemical weapons attack in decades. Western and regional countries called for U.N. chemical weapons investigators - who arrived in Damascus just three days ago - to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war. Images, including some taken by freelance photographers and supplied to Reuters, showed scores of bodies including of small children, laid out on the floor of a clinic with no visible signs of injuries. Reuters was not independently able to verify the cause of their death. The Syrian government denied that it had used chemical arms. George Sabra, one of the leading opponents of Assad, said the death toll was 1,300 killed by poison gas rained down on suburbs east of Damascus. *"Today's crimes are ... not the first time the regime has used chemical weapons. But they constitute a turning point in the regime's operations,"* he told a news conference in Istanbul.*"This time it was for annihilation rather than terror." * An opposition monitoring group, citing figures compiled from medical clinics in the Damascus suburbs, put the death toll at 494 - 90 percent of them killed by gas, the rest by bombing and conventional arms. The rebel Syrian National Coalition said 650 people had been killed. If the cause of death and the scale of the killing were confirmed, it would be the worst known use of chemical weapons since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988. Activists said rockets with chemical agents hit the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar during fierce pre-dawn bombardment by government forces. The Damascus Media Office monitoring center said 150 bodies were counted in Hammouriya, 100 in Kfar Batna, 67 in Saqba, 61 in Douma, 76 in Mouadamiya and 40 in Irbib, all suburbs of Damascus. More...<http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE97K0EL20130821> A mother in Damascus, found her child among a row of dead children | 21 Aug 2013 <https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/370186543161290752> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l8PvtrpxnlM/UhTb6X2pA8I/AAAAAAAAA1U/eEjrkNG6bts/s1600/erbeen-mother.jpg> BBC News is reporting <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22557347> : Syria chemical weapons allegations 21 August 2013 Last updated at 08:27 ET The BBC has seen video and eyewitness testimony that appears to corroborate allegations of chemical weapons' use in the Syrian town of Saraqeb. So what do we know about the alleged instances of chemical weapons use in the conflict so far? More...<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22557347> al Ghouta | Damascus | Child hysterical & can't focus, after regime CW attack | 21 Aug 2013<http://twitter.com/RevolutionSyria/status/370199182436741120> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgaq8g4Wge0 The New York Times is reporting<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/world/middleeast/syria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp> : Syrian Rebels Accuse Government of Chemical Attack By BEN HUBBARD and HWAIDA SAAD Published: August 21, 2013 BEIRUT, Lebanon — Antigovernment activists accused the Syrian government of pounding areas east of the capital, Damascus, with rockets carrying poison gas early Wednesday, saying that people had been killed in their sleep and that local hospitals were filled with casualties. Amateur videos posted online showed medics, with hand-pump respirators, trying to revive people laid out on floors and hospital gurneys, along with images of rooms full of bodies. The source of the images could not immediately be verified, and the government of President Bashar al-Assad denied the allegations of a chemical weapons attack. More...<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/world/middleeast/syria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp> Children killed in Ghouta Chemical Massacre | 21 Aug 2013<https://twitter.com/inoeya/status/370207673142091776> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-shEhGjzhCq0/UhTwwfUGynI/AAAAAAAAA1k/SPQjjMSG05U/s1600/ghouta-children.jpg> http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2013/08/1300-dead-after-obama-green-lights-new.html The Revolting Syrian-يلا إرحل يا بشار <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/> A few of the photo’s from Assad’s Chemical Weapons Attack on the suburbs of Damascus, Syria this morning. As of this writing, 1288 people are confirmed to have been killed with 40% of the dead being children. More videos and photos of the attack here<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/58902680033/the-chemical-attack-massacre-of-damascus> . <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/58911563712/a-few-of-the-photos-from-assads-chemical-weapons> Reblogged 11 hours ago from syriaonmymind (originally from amjad82) <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/58911563712/a-few-of-the-photos-from-assads-chemical-weapons> 102 notes • <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/58911563712/a-few-of-the-photos-from-assads-chemical-weapons>1 Comment and 0 Reactions<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/post/58911563712/a-few-of-the-photos-from-assads-chemical-weapons#disqus_thread> Tagged: Syria <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Syria>, Chemical attack <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Chemical-attack>, Gas<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Gas> , Children <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Children>, Dead<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Dead> ,Killed <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Killed>, Eastern Ghouta<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Eastern-Ghouta> , Assad <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Assad>, Bashar Al Assad<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Bashar-Al-Assad> ,Massacre <http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/Massacre>, News<http://www.therevoltingsyrian.com/tagged/News> . Source: amjad82 <http://amjad82.tumblr.com/post/58908634553> The Chemical Attack & Massacre of Damascus Aug 21, 2013 - At approximately 3:00am this morning in Damascus, a year to the day after Obama’s infamous “red line” speech warning Assad about using chemical weapons, and as a specialized UN inspection team sleep in their hotels in Damascus, ostensibly there to investigate a CW attack 6 months ago, Assad launched his largest, most wide scale and most deadly attack using chemical weapons on the Damascus suburbs of Zamallaka and Ein Turma in the Eastern Ghouta area. The fallout from the attack was also felt in many of the surrounding districts. Preliminary reports are that close to 600 people have been killed so far with thousands more injured from the effects of the gas which some are claiming, based on the symptoms seen, to be “weaponized cyanide” In two days, you and the rest of the world will forget about this massacre the same way you forgot about the rest that have happened over the last 2+ years in Syria. We Syrians however, will never forget. Not the martyrs and not the way the rest of the world sat by and watched this happen to us. A morbid list of at least 75 videos from today’s attack compiled by @Brown_Moses here<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUGrW-SjjbU&list=PLPC0Udeof3T4NORTjYmPoNCHn2vCByvYG&index=1> A comprehensive list and description of the attacks by @RSyrianCivilWar here<http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/1kry33/live_thread_stream_of_videos_coming_out_of/> Some of the dead children from the attack. [image: image] More dead children. [image: image] And more dead children. [image: image] A father holds his dead daughter. [image: image] The girl from the photo above and her sister. [image: image] Rows of dead children [image: image] More of the dead … [image: image] A man bemoans the loss of his daughter to chemical weapons. He says “Before she went to sleep and died she told me that it wasn’t her turn to eat that day, it was her siblings turn” as they had very little food to eat. ========================================== [image: Syria First-Hand — Doctor Speaks About Symptoms Of Damascus Attack Victims] Published on August 21st, 2013 | *by Joanna Paraszczuk* 0 Syria First-Hand — Doctor Speaks About Symptoms Of Damascus Attack Victims Following Wednesday’s regime attacks in East Ghouta, this is a video statement made by a medical professional in a medical point in Jobar, where victims were taken. The doctor explains that medical staff were pushed beyond capacity and used huge quantities of medicines to treat victims. Civilians tried to flee the chemical gases, by hiding in basements, which increased their symptoms. The doctor says that activists must run awareness programs for civilians about what to do in the case of another gas attack. Transcript: In the name of Allah most Gracious, most Merciful! In the early morning hours, what happened in the frontline of Jobar was that Ain Tarma was being bombed with chemical weapons. We were aware of the situation at an early time. Thank God, we raised our readiness and the perfection of our work. Praise be to Allah,, all the adjacent medical points responded to us, starting from Zamalka medical point, Ain Tarma medical point, Jobar medical point and all the remote medical points. Even Deir Al- Asafeer and Douma medical points have participated in the work and the medical evacuation, may Allah reward them will all the best. The magnitude of the disaster was huge and the number of the victims and injuries was also so big. In Jobar, we consumed our stocks of Atropine<http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/digestive-health/medicines/atropine-tablets.html> and Hydrocortisone<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682206.html>. I alone took out about 25,000 needles of Atropine from the Jobar warehouse and nearly 7,000 needles of Hydrocortisone and about 35,000 needles of various sizes. They have been distributed over the entire medical points in Jobar and Ain Tarma. The medical staff has worked with us actively and vigorously. The number of injuries, victims and martyrs [deaths] of children and civilians was very, very big. The number of children who came to us is very big. The number of children who arrived to me alone was approximately 50. They were martyrs [dead], they did not have any signs of life. I moved to Ain Tarma medical point and I provided them with some Atropine. I was also briefed on the work; everybody was working very hard. Some people had to retreat to other points, but they should not have moved; they must work on the front-lines. The negative thing that happened was dealing randomly with the matter and the poor education of citizens. The gas loses its effect after half an hour, but unfortunately citizens hid in basements although the gas is heavy and it descends to basements. This increased the damage and the number of injuries. Because citizens went down into their basements, the number of injuries and martyrs [deaths] increased. And, the increase in the number of injuries resulted in an increased workload for us. So, we had to raise maximum readiness with our total disability. We consumed approximately 200 oxygen cylinders in Jobar and Ain Tarma medical points alone. We’ve got martyrs [deaths] among our medical staff, may Allah accept them. Our friends also passed away, may Allah accept them. There was ignorance on the part of citizens. In such cases, they must go to the upper floors. Some people also took the initiative to set fires, which meant they had increased difficulty in breathing. This had led to more side effects; there was an overlapping of gases and inhalation of burned tire smoke and raging fire gases due to the ignorance of some people in burning tires. This thing should not have occurred. Now, we must work on a complete awareness program in the East Gouta regarding this matter. It should be addressed to citizens not to militants. In the case of chemical gases, they must go to open spaces and to the upper floors. I mean we must protect ourselves from mortar shelling, but we must sit in places which are exposed to air and where there is an air flow to get oxygen and reduce injuries; thus, decreasing the burden of injuries upon us. I can no longer talk! 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