Jessie, That link from Human Rights Watch is a fairly long read...

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Originally posted by jessie1 ↑

"Re US, what do you think of Trump?"

Well I guess, only in the US, a different sort of pedigree to what we might expect of the leader of the US - then again, he might well be okay.

"and back to Syria and Russian propaganda :
Here is an article about Chechen Muslim Military begging Putin to send them to fight ISIS....."

GZ, conversely, there is plenty of early material and videos highlighting the antics of Assad.

And here is a pre-uprising summation:

http://www.hrw.org/report/2010/07/1...-during-bashar-al-asads-first-ten-years-power

As I maintain, the 21st Century and it's real time access to comms/technology has given plebs the power to reach out and make themselves heard. In saying this, it also allows for 'organised' Pallywood style propaganda.

Perhaps the technology will eventually work in "our" favour, as the oppressed Muslim plebs begin to realise that their lives could be a whole lot better if they uprise against the leaderships that use their religion as a blinkering tool to oppress and suppress them - we can only hope that the penny will suddenly and collectively drop.

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Jessie,
That link from Human Rights Watch is a fairly long read for this time of night so I thought I'd just read a page or two. Well, I didn't get much past the first couple of sentences.

"After Bashar al-Asad succeeded his father as president in July 2000, many people in Syria hoped that the human rights situation would improve. In his first inaugural speech on July 17, al-Asad spoke of the need for “creative thinking,” “the desperate need for constructive criticism,” “transparency,” and “democracy.”"

The first sentence tells me that Bashar al-Assad's father was already in trouble with destabilisation of his government which would have carried over into his son's reign. As we see in the second sentence Bashar al-Assad decides to try a more democratic approach. I wonder who was suggesting that. Reading on a bit further, Assad promptly finds out that it won't work and has to revert back to his father's tactics.

How many democracies are working in the region? What did it take to rule Iraq? Maybe Assad should follow the Saudi lead and just chop heads off in a public square to get the masses under control, but we both know that Human Rights Watch would be right onto that. Hypocrisy, for a reason.
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