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 direction of each nations’ refugees.
Talking to the Turkish Anadolu Company, the pinnacle of the Syrian Negotiation Fee, Anas Al-Abdah, expressed his disappointment at Western nations’ distinction of their method in direction of aiding the Ukrainian authorities and the Syrian opposition.
“We assist the safety of Ukrainians from the weapons of Russian President Vladimir Putin, however we’re in opposition to 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 direction of the outbreaks of struggle in Syria and Ukraine, stating that “In Syria, there’s a bloodbath of a complete 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 to seize the capital Kyiv – was facilitated by the West’s allowance of its bombardment of Syria through the years.
The war on Syria emboldened Russia and its relentless targeting of civilians in Ukraine
Al-Abdah additionally warned that Moscow’s aggression might increase additional, saying the West “gave Russia direct and oblique assist 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 had been as a substitute continuously pushed again and assaulted by European border businesses over the previous decade.
Mainstream Western media shops had been in the end 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 to stigmatise the Syrian opposition and the Syrian folks with terrorism they usually stay silent about it…This case harmed us and our wrestle in opposition to the fascist regime in Damascus and its supporters, our wrestle 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 assist for Ukraine and its sovereignty, condemning the identical Russian aggression which it had skilled.
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