It's 9am on Christmas eve and I probably should have some rest now, the evening might become a longer one but what please happened there today in Damascus? Two explosions - yes, explosions, bombings are all but proved and confirmed - followed by gunfire - very strange reaction on an 'obvious suicide bombing' presenting later exactly one arrested 'assassin' alive - and a very quick found culprit: the usual suspects. Western nations, Israel, Al Qaeda. The first footage I saw was showing the cleanup but something was missing. The whole atmosphere on the images was lack of the empathical vibration which is usually to be seen - and felt - on visual documents about similar tragedies. The speedy presser of the SNC contained the next remarkable passage: referring to the symbolic act of the constructed assassination as a threat addressed to the Arab League monitoring pioneers - how much do we have? 16? 20? 11? - the human slaughter dynasty has sent coldblooded a strong signal (Got that Madam Secretary?). The places are insofar suspicious being known as well-guarded regime controlled area, no spots where usually many civilians are passing. Finally the chosen time. Precisely before the meanwhile traditional protests after the Friday prayers where Sunni, Alawi and other Muslims as well are praying as Christians, no sectarian myths please, showing the regime's ability to stop at nothing. Regime plot thickened more after eyewitness report about closing a road near the state security building 10 minutes before the first bomb detonated. With every closer look new questions rised about the explosions' real backers. Unconfirmed rumors about the sudden departure of the Arab League monitor crew as reaction on reportedly 'being kind of imprisoned in the hotel chamber' were making the round.
Those questions might be tantalizing but are distracting us from the continuing ongoing attacks on civilians and unarmed protesters in Daraa, Deir, Hama, Idlib and especially in Homs. This regime plot - and I belong to those who strongly believe in - is created make turn away our heads from the besieged places. From the glorious Homsis presenting every day new powerful protests. From the traumatized families who fled with their children from the shelled homes into the hills of Idlib freezing and starving. No, we won't do Assad this favor. We'll keep a watchful eye even on the Western Christian-dominated festives, we won't let us fool from a dumb and extremely brutal regime paying their stories attention. Instead of we have clear to demand form the observers that they urge themselves their 'hosts' to grant them free access to the Homs quarters Bab Sbaa, Inshaat and Baba Amr as well as to Idlib, Hama and all the other towns besieged and/or raided in between the last nine monts. We have to demand that they can interview the families of all the civilian martyrs, more than 6,000 confirmed until now, that they can speak openly to the mothers of the murdered children, to everyone who has lost a relative or a friend.
My present wishes this Christmas for the Syrians are an immediate ceasefire; the withdrawal of the security forces without exception; days on which no martyrs have to be mourned; the safe return into their houses; the possibility to go to the grocery shop without risking to get detained or murdered. But the biggest Christmas present wish is the end of the dynastic tyranny including its apparatus. Great people of Syria, you desired freedom, you're fighting for freedom, you refuse to give up your will for freedom, you deserve freedom and your will get your freedom.
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