Morning Star.png Syria dismisses UN's massacre fears as terrorist propaganda James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 14 December 2016 Syria and Russia condemned Western parroting of terrorist propaganda yesterday as insurgents in east Aleppo announced their surrender. Free Syrian Army legal adviser Osama Abu Zayd said a ceasefire had been agreed yesterday evening for both militants and civilians to evacuate the square-mile Salaheddin district, where they were holding out. Brutal terrorist group Nour el-Din el-Zinki spokesman Yasser al-Youssef confirmed the deal, taking advantage of the government's amnesty offer. Some 3,000 civilians escaped the area yesterday morning through humanitarian corridors opened by the army - the latest daily exodus. It brought the total over the previous 24 hours to 7,800, including 3,900 children - according to the Russian military co-ordination centre in Syria. It added that 375 guerillas had surrendered under the government's amnesty offer in addition to more than 700 over the previous 24-hour period. Residents in central Aleppo thronged the streets as antiaircraft guns filled the sky with streams of tracer fire. RT news reporter Lizzie Phelan reported from the scene: "All of downtown Aleppo tonight is filled with people celebrating." Yesterday UN officials including secretary-general Ban Ki Moon repeated claims by insurgent-linked groups that Syrian troops had executed 82 civilians, including women and children, in newly liberated districts. But they admitted the reports could not be verified. None of the residents reached by the Associated Press news agency said they had witnessed the alleged killings. The Syrian armed forces denied the claims, calling them "a desperate attempt" to garner international sympathy for the defeated terrorists. The UN security council was set to hold an emergency debate on Aleppo last night. Earlier, Western leaders repeated demands for a ceasefire and aid for the rebel-held square mile. French President Francois Hollande demanded Russia facilitate aid to civilians in the insurgent pocket, saying the "humanitarian situation . is unacceptable." Russia has been providing much of the aid to the 110,000 civilians able to flee in the past few weeks in the Syrian army's rapid advance. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attacked the US government for leading calls for a halt to the decisive battle of the war. "We are tired of hearing this whining from our American colleagues in the current administration that we need to immediately halt military action," he told reporters in Serbia. [email protected] __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14602 (20161214) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000601d255d0%24e6e82de0%24b4b889a0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
