Leio o noticiário sobre os protestos realizados pela população na Síria e vejo, ali, o retrato típico das ditaduras. Nunca o governo central de al Assad assume que são reivindicações justas da população por mais empregos, melhor justiça, melhor serviço de saúde, liberdade política, religiosa e de expressão. Não., Para o governo, assim como aconteceu no Egito, na Tunísia, e em outros paises árabes ou islâmicos onde ocorreram rebeliões, é sempre coisa de baderneiro, agente estrangeiro infiltrado, subversivos.
Talvez agentes estrangeiros, subversivos e baderneiros se aproveitem da situação. Afinal, há mesmo agitação. Contudo, o raciocínio é típico das ditaduras. Como os ditadores sempre acreditam que sabem tudo, sabem o que o povo quer ou precisa, e sabem como fazer isso sem perguntar a ninguém (vocês acham que há gente aqui na América Latina assim? Desconfiam de alguém?) então é mais fácil acusar os ricos, a imprensa, os inimigos externos existentes ou inexistentes.
Veja o discurso de Kirchener (agora a presidente9, Morales, Lula, Chávez, ortega, Correa (vejam o que ele está fazendo à imprensa equatoriana, prendendo quem o critica!). São todos autoritários declarados e totalitários mais ou menos enrustidos.
Muitos, se pudessem agir como um Assda ou como um Fidel Castro, ou Muamar Kadafi, fechariam os jornais ou obrigariam a apenas informar textos de propaganda.
O que pergunto todos os dias aos meus botões é: até quando o fanfarrão Barack Obama vai esperar até mandar bombardear a Síria. Até quando os cmandantes da Otan e os governos europeus vão esperar para agirem com a pressa que agiram contra Líbia, interferindo em uma guerra civil?
Creio que a resposta é: Nunca. A Síria não é a Líbia. Não porque tenha mais armas ou um melhor exército. É que a Síria está ao lado do Irã. E atacar a Síria pode desencadear uma reação em cadeia perigosa para o Oriente Médio. Assad não aparenta ser tão louco como Kadafi, um dos mais terríveis ditadores da História, mas não é santo.
E Kadafi, de um modo ou outro, por suas ações, acabou meio isolado, ninguém o defendeu. A Síria, apesar de Assad, não seria isolada pelos demais paises islâmicos ou árabes. A maioria é formada por ditaduras. E elas se apóiam.
Enquanto lemos que as tropas de Assad atacam várias cidades, semana apos semana, com o uso de tanques e outras armas militares, chegando as mortes de civis a mais de 1.500 pessoas e soldados e pessoal ligado ao governo a mais de 300 pessoas, nada lemos de efetivo para dar um basta a esse massacre.
Mas aprendemos, agora, que Barack Obama e seus aliados europeus trabalham com dois pesos e duas medidas.
Mais uma vez afirmo: os civis sírios valem menos que os civis libios, infelizmente.
De fato, ninguém deveria morrer.
QUADRO DE EL PAÍS:
Cuatro meses de desafío a El Asad
- Marzo. Prende la ola de las protestas árabes en la ciudad sureña de Deraa. El día 23, el Ejército mata a seis manifestantes y dispara sobre cientos. El Asad destituye al gobernador de la provincia. Un día después, el Ejecutivo promete subir el sueldo a los funcionarios y revisar la Ley de Emergencia tras la muerte de 37 personas por disparos de la policía. El 25 es el primer Viernes de la Dignidad, que se ha repetido cada semana.
- Abril. El Gobierno deroga la Ley de Emergencia, vigente desde 1963, pero las protestas, la represión y los muertos se extienden por todo el país. El día 22 de abril 88 personas mueren en protestas en distintas ciudades. El 25 de abril el Ejército cerca Deraa con tanques. El 29, viernes, fallecen otras 60 personas en manifestaciones, y en Deraa, sitiada, el niño de 13 años Hamza al Jatib fallece torturado por el régimen. Su imagen será uno de los iconos de la protesta.
- Mayo. El Ejército aplasta las revueltas en Banias y en Homs. La UE incluye en su lista negra de sanciones a 13 miembros del régimen. Días después incluye a El Asad.
- Junio. La oposición siria se reúne en Antalya (Turquía) y pide a El Asad que deje el poder. En Hama mueren 54 personas. El día 6 el régimen anuncia que 80 policías han muerto en Jisr al Shughur y culpa a terroristas de ello. La versión de los opositores es que esos soldados se negaron a disparar a civiles y que por eso fueron asesinados por sus compañeros. Miles de refugiados cruzan a Turquía.
- Julio. El día 10, los embajadores de Estados Unidos y Francia visitan Hama en señal de solidaridad con los ciudadanos. El régimen lo interpreta como una provocación y al día siguiente una turba asalta las Embajadas de ambos países en Damasco. Hillary Clinton declara que Bachar El Asad ha perdido su legitimidad y no es "indispensable". El Observatorio sirio de Derechos Humanos cifra en 1.583 los muertos civiles desde marzo.
(quadro extraído do jornal espanhol El Pais)
Informações em inglês sobre a Síria do Site Star África:
In English:
Syria's Assad praises troops after deadly crackdown
Syria's defiant president praised his troops on Monday as the army pressed on with a deadly...
Syria's defiant president praised his troops on Monday as the army pressed on with a deadly crackdown on anti-regime dissent, even as international condemnation swelled ahead of a UN meeting on the crisis.
The Security Council was to hold closed consultations from 2100 GMT, a spokesman for the council presidency said, following demands from European powers to condemn President Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown on opposition protests.
Syrian forces on Sunday killed around 140 people across the country, including more than 100 in the flashpoint city of Hama, scene of an Islamist revolt in 1982 that was crushed at the cost of an estimated 20,000 lives.
Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, called Sunday "one of the deadliest days" since the pro-democracy protests broke out in mid-March.
But the interior ministry said only eight people were killed in Hama and blamed the bloodshed on "armed terrorist groups."
On Monday, at least four more civilians were killed in Hama during search operations, the Observatory said, while a 13-year-old boy and another person were also shot dead in the eastern town of Al-Bukamal.
Sunday's crackdown on Hama came on the eve of the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
At least 1,583 civilians and 369 members of the army and security forces have been killed since mid-March in Syria, according to the Observatory.
The activists' group said that tanks rumbled on Monday into Al-Bukamal, on the border with Iraq, some two weeks after troops surrounded it as the official media said it was being used as a passage point to smuggle in weapons and money.
Reinforcements were also dispatched further north to Deir Ezzor, another rallying point of anti-regime protests where troops deployed on Saturday.
"More than 80 tanks are heading there, in what appears to be the prelude to a vast military operation," said Abdel Rahman, quoting residents in Deir Ezzor, Syria's oil hub.
Troops backed by tanks also stormed the town of Al-Hulla, northwest of Syria's third city Homs, where residents reported heavy gunfire and said 15 people were wounded and 18 arrested, according to the Observatory.
In a speech marking Army Day, the embattled president showered his troops with praise, saying the military had "proved its loyalty to its people, country and creed," state news agency SANA reported.
"Its efforts and sacrifices will be admired. These sacrifices succeeded in foiling the enemies of the country and ending sedition, preserving Syria," said Assad, blaming "conspirators" for seeking to cause sedition.
The deadly crackdown triggered a torrent of Western condemnation, with criticism coming even from traditional allies like Russia, while the European Union said it would impose fresh sanctions on Damascus.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged the Security Council to take a "clear stand" and said Syrian authorities must protect the population.
Ashton also confirmed that a new set of sanctions would be imposed from Tuesday on five Syrians "involved in or associated with the violence."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague called for "stronger international pressure" on Syria, but ruled out military intervention.
"We want to see stronger international pressure all round, and of course to be effective that can't just be pressure from Western nations," Hague told BBC radio.
"That includes from Arab nations, it includes from Turkey that has been very active in trying to persuade President Assad to reform instead of embarking on these appalling actions."
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However, Hague stressed there was no prospect of achieving a UN mandate for military intervention such as in Libya. "It's not a remote possibility, even if we were in favour of that, which we're not," he said.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a French newspaper the lack of a UN mandate and regional support meant the conditions were not met for a Libya-style operation.
"In Libya, we're carrying out an operation based on a clear UN mandate. We have the support of countries in the region. These two conditions are not met in Syria," Rasmussen said.
A UN meeting could reopen bitter divisions within the Security Council, which has been unable to agree even on a statement on Assad's crackdown.
Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and the United States have pressed for weeks for some kind of condemnation of the violence, and Italy said on Sunday that the Security Council should urgently meet.
But Russia, China, South Africa, India and Brazil -- angered by the NATO bombing campaign in Libya -- have refused to support such a move, with Russia and China threatening to veto any formal resolution against Assad.
However, Moscow on Monday urged Damascus to immediately stop using force and repression against civilian protesters, in its strongest criticism yet of the Syrian crackdown.
"The use of force against both peaceful civilians and representatives of state structures is unacceptable and should be stopped immediately," Russia's foreign ministry said, calling for an end to "repressions."
So far Syria has only faced sanctions from the European Union and the United States, with individuals targeted, including Assad.
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