Hehehe.... perbuatan dr umat terbaik sejagad. Kayaknya, ngebantai orang, merkosa cewek dsb itu adalah perbuatan baik nurut auloh, kl ga, knp orang Islam disebut sbg umat terbaik oleh auloh?
On 5/20/13, Bukan Pedanda <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ________________________________ > > May 14, 2013 > An Atrocity in Syria, With No Victim Too Small > By ANNE BARNARD and HANIA MOURTADA > BEIRUT, Lebanon — After dragging 46 bodies from the streets near his > hometown on the Syrian coast, Omar lost count. For four days, he said, > he could not eat, remembering the burned body of a baby just a few > months old; a fetus ripped from a woman’s belly; a friend lying dead, > his dog still standing guard. > Omar survived what residents, antigovernment activists and human rights > monitors are calling one of the darkest recent episodes in the Syrian > war, a massacre in government-held Tartus Province that has inflamed > sectarian divisions, revealed new depths of depravity and made the > prospect of stitching the country back together appear increasingly > difficult. > That mass killing this month was one in a series of recent > sectarian-tinged attacks that Syrians on both sides have seized on to > demonize each other. Government and rebel fighters have filmed > themselves committing atrocities for the world to see. > Footage routinely shows pro-government fighters beating, killing and > mutilating Sunni rebel detainees, forcing them to refer to President > Bashar al-Assad as God. One rebel commander recently filmed himself > cutting out an organ of a dead pro-government fighter, biting it and > promising the same fate to Alawites, members of Mr. Assad’s Shiite > Muslim sect. > That lurid violence has fueled pessimism about international efforts to > end the fighting. As the United States and Russia work to organize peace > talks next month between Mr. Assad and his opponents, the ever more > extreme carnage makes reconciliation seem more remote. > Nadim Houry, the director of Human Rights Watch in Beirut, said he > sensed “a complete disconnect between diplomacy and events on the > ground.” > “The conflict is getting more visceral,” he said. Without concrete > confidence-building measures, he said, and with more people “seeing it > as an existential struggle, it’s hard to imagine what the negotiations > would look like.” > The recent executions, reconstructed by speaking with residents and > human rights monitors, unfolded over three days in two Sunni enclaves in the > largely Alawite and Christian province, first in the village of > Bayda and then in the Ras al-Nabeh district of the nearby city of > Baniyas. > Government troops and supporting militias went house to house, killing > entire families and smashing men’s heads with concrete blocks. > Antigovernment activists provided lists of 322 victims they said had > been identified. Videos showed at least a dozen dead children. Hundreds > more people are reported missing. > “How can we reach a point of national forgiveness?” said Ahmad Abu al-Khair, > a well-known blogger from Bayda. He said that the attacks had begun there, > and that 800 of about 6,000 residents were missing. > Multiple video images that residents said they had recorded in Bayda and Ras > al-Nabeh — of small children lying where they died, some embracing > one another or their parents — were so searing that even some government > supporters rejected Syrian television’s official version of events, > that the army had “crushed a number of terrorists.” > One prominent pro-government writer, Bassam al-Qadi, took the unusual, > risky step of publicly blaming loyalist gunmen for the killings and > accusing the government of “turning a blind eye to criminals and > murderers in the name of ‘defending the homeland.’ “ > Images of the killings in and around Baniyas have transfixed Syrians. In one > video that residents say shows victims in Ras al-Nabeh, the bodies > of at least seven children and several adults lie tangled and bloody on a > rain-soaked street. A baby girl, naked from the waist down, stares > skyward, tiny hands balled into fists. Her round face is unblemished, > but her belly is darkened and her legs and feet are charred into black > cinders. > Opposition leaders called the Baniyas killings sectarian “cleansing” > aimed at pushing Sunnis out of territory that may form part of an > Alawite rump state if Syria ultimately fractures. Mr. Houry said the > killings inevitably raised such fears, though there was no evidence of > such a broad policy. Tens of thousands of displaced Sunnis are staying > in the province, largely safe. > Not all reactions followed sectarian lines. Survivors said Christian > neighbors had helped survivors escape, and on Tuesday, Alawite and > Christian residents of the province said they were starting an aid > campaign for victims to “defy the sectarian wind.” > Mr. Qadi, the pro-government writer, labeled the killers “criminals who > do not represent the Alawites” and called on the government to > immediately “acknowledge what happened” and arrest “those hyenas.” > He added: “This has happened in a lot of places. Baniyas is only the most > recent one.” > When the uprising began in March 2011 as a peaceful movement, Sunnis in > Bayda raised banners denouncing Sunni extremists, seeking to reassure > Alawites that they opposed Mr. Assad, not his sect, said Mr. Abu > al-Khair, the blogger. > In May 2011, security forces stormed the village, killing demonstrators, > including women. > After that, Baydaremained largely quiet. Most > activists and would-be fighters left. But residents said they often > helped defecting soldiers escape, a pattern they believe set off the > violence. > Activists said that on May 2, around 4 a.m., security forces came to > detain defectors, and were ambushed in a fight that killed several > government fighters — the first known armed clash in Baniyas. The > government called in reinforcements and, by 7 a.m., began shelling the > village. > A pro-government television channel showed a reporter on a hill above > Bayda. Smoke rose from green slopes and houses below, where, the > reporter said, “terrorists” were hiding. A group of men the reporter > described as government fighters walked unhurriedly through a square. > “God willing, Bayda will be finished today,” a uniformed man said on camera. > > What happened next was described in Skype interviews with four survivors who > for their safety gave only nicknames, an activist in Baniyas, and > Mr. Abu al-Khair, who said he had spoken from Damascus with more than 30 > witnesses. > Men in partial or full military dress went door to door, separating men — > and boys 10 and older — from women and younger children. > Residents said some gunmen were from the National Defense Forces, the > new framework for pro-government militias, mainly Alawites in the > Baniyas area. They bludgeoned and shot men, shot or stabbed families to > death and burned houses and bodies. > The activist in Baniyas, Abu Obada, said security forces had told people to > gather in the square, and some Bayda villagers, fearing a massacre, > attacked them with weapons abandoned by defectors. Other residents > disputed that or were unsure because they had been hiding. > A cousin of Mr. Abu al-Khair’s, who gave her name as Warda al-Hurra, or > the Free Rose, said her female relatives had described being herded to a > bedroom with children, and heard male relatives crying out in pain > nearby. At one point, her cousin Ahmed, 10, and brother Othman, 16, were > brought in, injured and “limp as a towel,” she said. > Her aunt begged a guard to let them stay, but he said, “They’ll kill me if I > make one single mistake.” > Soon another gunman shouted at him and took the boys away. They are still > missing. > The gunmen brought more women, until there were 100 in the room. He > ordered the guard to kill them. The guard said: “Don’t be rash! Take a > breath.” > The man relented. The women heard gunmen celebrating in the square; > later they were released. When they ventured out, there were “bodies on > every corner,” Ms. Hurra said. > Another resident, Abu Abdullah, said he had fled his house and returned > after dark to find stabbed, charred bodies of women and children dumped > in the square, and 30 of his relatives dead. > Omar, of nearby Ras al-Nabeh, the man who had dragged dozens of bodies > from the streets, said he had helped Bayda residents pick up bodies, > placing 46 in two houses and the rest in a mosque, then had run away, > fearing the return of the killers. He said he had recognized some > bodies, including the village sheik, Omar al-Bayassi, whom some > considered pro-government. > One video said to be from Bayda showed eight dead children on a bed. Two > toddlers cuddled face to face; a baby rested on a dead woman’s > shoulder. > On May 4, shelling and gunfire began to hit Ras al-Nabeh. Abu Yehya, a > resident, hid in his house with his wife and two children, who stayed > quiet: “Their instincts took over.” Two days later, he said, he emerged > to find his neighbors, a family of 13, shot dead against a wall. > On May 6, security forces allowed in Red Crescent workers. Bodies were > tossed and bulldozed into trucks and dumped in a mass grave, Mr. Abu > al-Khair said. > Residents posted smiling pictures of children they said had been killed: > Moaz al-Biassi, 1 year old, and his sister Afnan, 3. Three sisters, > Halima, Sara, and Aisha. Curly-haired Noor, and Fatima, too little to > have much hair but already sporting earrings. > Mr. Obada said residents on Tuesday were indignant when a government > delegation offered compensation for damaged houses, saying, “What do you get > if you rebuild the house and the whole family is dead?” > Displaced Sunnis who had sheltered there are fleeing, and some say Alawites > are no longer welcome. > “It’s now impossible for them to stay in Syria,” Omar said. > Hwaida Saad contributed reporting from Beirut, and Sebnem Arsu from Antakya, > Turkey. > > More in Middle East (1 of 21 articles) > Hezbollah Aids Syrian Military in a Key Battle > Read More » > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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