The Syrian opposition has condemned the West’s “double requirements” in its response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine compared to the Russian bombardment of Syria, in addition to distinction in therapy in the direction of each nations’ refugees.
Chatting with the Turkish Anadolu Company, the top of the Syrian Negotiation Fee, Anas Al-Abdah, expressed his disappointment at Western nations’ distinction of their method in the direction of aiding the Ukrainian authorities and the Syrian opposition.
“We help the safety of Ukrainians from the weapons of Russian President Vladimir Putin, however we’re towards this crude and public duplicity of Western nations,” al-Abdah mentioned, reiterating that “the killing of an individual shouldn’t be tolerated, whatever the sufferer’s nationality or perception.”
He in contrast the response of the worldwide neighborhood in the direction of the outbreaks of conflict in Syria and Ukraine, stating that “In Syria, there’s a bloodbath of a whole folks in entrance of the eyes of the world and with worldwide complicity, whereas in Ukraine, the entire Western world is attempting to guard it and its folks.”
In the end, he insisted, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final week – which is ongoing as Russian forces try and seize the capital Kyiv – was facilitated by the West’s allowance of its bombardment of Syria over time.
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Al-Abdah additionally warned that Moscow’s aggression could broaden additional, saying the West “gave Russia direct and oblique help to hold out new adventures that won’t cease on the borders of Ukraine…Failure to anticipate the hazard earlier than it turns into a actuality on the bottom, is the largest failure that any nation’s management can fall into.”
He additionally criticised the distinction within the therapy of Ukrainian and Syrian refugees, with European nations particularly opening their doorways to Ukrainians and granting them sure rights, whereas Syrians have been as an alternative consistently pushed again and assaulted by European border businesses over the previous decade.
Mainstream Western media shops have been finally complicit in that criminalisation of Syrian refugees, he claimed, by “demonising the Syrian opposition as selling terrorist organisations.”
Al-Abdah added that “Western nations are absolutely conscious of the misinformation and try and stigmatise the Syrian opposition and the Syrian folks with terrorism and so they stay silent about it…This case harmed us and our battle towards the fascist regime in Damascus and its supporters, our battle for our freedom and the way forward for our nation.”
Following Russia’s launching of its invasion of Ukraine final week Thursday, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad instantly declared support for the invasion whereas the Syrian opposition announced its help for Ukraine and its sovereignty, condemning the identical Russian aggression which it had skilled.
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