Anti-Media bracht gisteren een artikel van MintPress News, waarin wordt gemeld, dat bijna 500.000 gevluchte Syriërs terugkeren naar door het bewind van Assad gecontroleerde gebieden. Me dunkt 'het teken, dat ze Assad een smerige, bloederige dictator vinden......'
Andrej Mahecic, woordvoerder van de hoge commissaris voor vluchtelingen bij de VN (UNHCR), heeft bekend gemaakt, dat sinds het begin van dit jaar 440.000 Syrische vluchtelingen, die in Syrië zijn gebleven, terug zijn gekeerd naar hun woonplaats in door reguliere Syrische troepen gecontroleerd gebied. Daarnaast zijn er in dezelfde tijd 31.000 Syrische vluchtelingen die naar het buitenland waren gevlucht, teruggekeerd naar alweer door het Syrische leger gecontroleerd gebied. Voorts zijn er sinds 2015 vanuit het buitenland 260.000 vluchtelingen teruggekeerd naar (nogmaals) door het Syrische leger gecontroleerd gebied.....
De westerse praatjes, dat het merendeel van de Syriërs zijn gevlucht voor het wrede regime van Assad, is een smerige leugen in de propagandaoorlog die de westerse massamedia en het merendeel van de westerser politici, onder aanvoering van NB de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, voeren tegen de regering Assad, Rusland en Iran..........
Vergeet niet dat het (ongedeelde) Syrië onder Assad, van voor de door de VS en anderen geregisseerde en gefinancierde opstand van 2011, een land was waar een groot aantal geloven, zonder enige probleem 'onder hetzelfde dak leefden.....' Iets dat in de door Assad gecontroleerde gebieden nog steeds zo is!!
Het agressieve westen moet zich als de donder terugtrekken uit Syrië, voordat het land opgedeeld kan worden, een opdeling die de wens is van: de VS, Saoedi-Arabië (na de VS de nr. 2 terreurstaat), Israël (na de VS en S-A de nr. 3 terreurstaat), Egypte en de Golfstaten (zonder Qatar). Als dit niet gebeurd is er niet alleen de kans op een internationaal conflict van enorm formaat, maar zal Syrië de zoveelste 'failed state made in USA' zijn........
Hier het artikel van Anti-Media:
Over 500,000 Syrian Refugees Return To Government-Controlled Areas Of Syria
(MPN) — DAMASCUS
(Analysis) – Crucial
to the Western narrative of the Syrian conflict is the assertion that
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal
dictator who
has taken to killing
his own people over
the course of Syria’s six-year-long conflict. This allegation has
been the crux of the “humanitarian” justification for foreign
military intervention in Syria that would seek to depose Assad’s
government, a justification frequently used by the U.S. and its
allies prior to an invasion or the toppling of an extant regime.
While
this narrative has been pervasive in media coverage of the Syrian
conflict, it is now being debunked by the very Syrian refugees that
the media purported were fleeing Assad in the first place.
According
to a
recent statement from
Andrej Mahecic, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees, an estimated 440,000 displaced Syrians who remained in the
country have returned to their homes since the year began. In
addition, 31,000 refugees in neighboring countries also returned to
Syria in the first half of the year, with 260,000 having returned to
Syria from other nations since 2015.
UN Refugee Agency: Almost 500,000 Syrian refugees have returned home. Find out why: htl.li/RfjO30de1Yj #UNHCR#standwithrefugees
Though Mahecic noted that these refugees represent only a “fraction” of the five million Syrian refugees living in neighboring countries, what is notable is that nearly all of those who have decided to come back are settling in areas of Syria controlled by the government or where the Syrian government has made major territorial gains against ISIS and US-backed militants like al-Nusra Front in recent months – namely Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus.
Even with the conflict in Syria still raging, thousands of the displaced are eagerly returning to their homes under the control of the Syrian government. This may seem strange, as the U.S. media has long suggested that most refugees were fleeing Assad, not foreign-backed terrorists like Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Nusra.
Even with the conflict in Syria still raging, thousands of the displaced are eagerly returning to their homes under the control of the Syrian government. This may seem strange, as the U.S. media has long suggested that most refugees were fleeing Assad, not foreign-backed terrorists like Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Nusra.
Of
course, this assertion was based on “polls” of refugees conducted
by the Syria Campaign, a
USAID-funded organization that
has long pushed for U.S. military intervention in Syria.
This
begs the question: why would refugees choose to return to territory
controlled by the person they supposedly sought to flee, as the
mainstream media portrays?
These
latest figures from the UN suggest that many refugees were not
fleeing their government, but rather the violence caused by a
foreign-funded insurgency intended to topple the popular Assad
government. As Middle
East Eye noted in
2015, prior to the outbreak of the conflict, Assad was widely
popular, though his popularity allegedly evaporated as the 2011
Saudi- and U.S.-funded uprising began.
Did
Assad’s popularity with the Syrian people ever really go away?
Western media reports containing interviews with the handful of
Syrians who support Assad as dictator claim it is so. But the
evidence has long suggested that the majority of Syrians have
continued to approve of their president throughout the conflict.
Indeed,
there is plenty of evidence that the “popular uprisings” against
the Assad government in 2011 were
staged on
behalf of foreign mercenaries largely backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and Turkey – governments that have long sought to remove Assad from
power. Assad’s popularity prior to the outbreak of violence likely
remained unchanged after the fact.
Polling
within Syria has consistently shown this to be true. Even polls
funded by anti-Assad nations like Qatar have
also found that
the majority of Syrians continue to overwhelmingly support Assad.
Indeed, when elections were last held in 2014, the Western media
could not hide the large crowds that came to vote, as the
population re-elected
Assad,
who won with 88 percent of the vote. By contrast, voter
turnout was 55.7 percent in
the last U.S. Presidential election, suggesting that Assad has a
stronger democratic mandate than U.S. President Donald Trump.
Six
years into the conflict, video footage, and photographs clearly show
that Assad and his wife regularly walk
among the Syrian people in
Damascus with little to no security detail. The Assads even
drive their own cars –
without security – through the countryside.
This
seems like a difficult feat for a “hated” and “feared”
dictator to perform on a regular basis. By contrast, some Western
leaders can
hardly spend a few minutes among
their constituents – even with a massive security detail in tow –
without being sped away for their own protection.
Even
U.S. politicians who have traveled to Syria have come back
acknowledging Assad’s popularity. For instance, Virginia State
Senator Richard Black has cited internal reports from U.S.
intelligence which state that, were an election in Syria to be held
today, Assad would
likely be reelected with
90 percent of the vote, including in areas occupied by terrorists.
