Pemberontak masuk Damsyik, Presiden Bashar tinggalkan ibu negara
Disember 8, 2024 @ 12:47pm
Orang ramai yang menaiki motosikal meraikan pengunduran tentera kerajaan di di bandar Daraa di selatan Syria pada 7 Disember 2024. - Foto AFP
DAMSYIK: Presiden Syria Bashar al-Assad menaiki pesawat dan meninggalkan Damsyik ke destinasi yang tidak diketahui pada Ahad, kata dua pegawai kanan tentera kepada Reuters, ketika pemberontak berkata, mereka memasuki ibu negara.
Beribu-ribu orang sama ada di dalam kereta dan berjalan kaki berkumpul di dataran utama di Damsyik, sambil melambai dan melaungkan "Kebebasan," kata saksi.
"Kami meraikan bersama rakyat Syria, berita pembebasan tahanan kami dan melepaskan rantai mereka dan mengumumkan berakhirnya era ketidakadilan di penjara Sednaya," kata pemberontak.
Sednaya ialah penjara tentera yang besar di pinggir Damsyik di mana kerajaan Syria menahan beribu-ribu orang.
Hanya beberapa jam sebelum itu, pemberontak mengumumkan bahawa mereka menguasai sepenuhnya bandar utama Homs selepas hanya sehari berperang, sekali gus menyebabkan pemerintahan Bashar selama 24 tahun, bergelantungan.
Bunyi tembakan yang kuat kedengaran di tengah-tengah Damsyik, kata dua penduduk pada Ahad, walaupun tidak jelas punca tembakan itu.
Di kawasan luar bandar di barat daya ibu negara, belia tempatan dan bekas pemberontak mengambil kesempatan susulan kehilangan kuasa itu untuk turun ke jalanan dalam tindakan menentang pemerintahan autoritarian keluarga Bashar.
Beribu-ribu penduduk Homs membanjiri jalan raya selepas tentera berundur dari pusat bandar, menari dan melaungkan "Assad sudah tiada, Homs sudah bebas" dan "Hidup Syria dan turun bersama Bashar al-Assad."
Pemberontak melepaskan tembakan ke udara dalam perayaan, dan pemuda merobohkan poster presiden Syria.
Kejatuhan Homs memberikan pemberontak kawalan ke atas kawasan strategik di Syria dan persimpangan lebuh raya utama, memisahkan Damsyik dari kawasan pantai yang menjadi kubu kuat mazhab Alawit Assad, dan di mana sekutu Bashar iaitu Russia mempunyai pangkalan tentera laut dan pangkalan udara.
Penguasaan Homs juga simbol kuat bagi kebangkitan dramatik pergerakan pemberontak dalam konflik yang berusia 13 tahun itu.
Komander Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, pemimpin pemberontak utama, menyebut penguasaan itu sebagai detik bersejarah.
Pemberontak membebaskan beribu-ribu tahanan dari penjara bandar. Pasukan keselamatan pergi dengan tergesa-gesa selepas membakar dokumen mereka.
Operasi sedang dijalankan untuk "membebaskan sepenuhnya" kawasan luar bandar di sekitar Damsyik. - REUTERS
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Hama, Syrian city at centre of fighting, has brutal history
Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Syria's fourth-largest city, Hama, which the army on Thursday admitted it lost control of after an Islamist-led rebel advance, was the scene in the 1980s of a massacre that remains among the darkest chapters in the country's history.
Around 210 kilometres (130 miles) north of the capital Damascus, Hama is strategic because of its location between Syria's second city Aleppo -- which rebels took on December 1 -- and Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad's power base.
The city, with a population of about one million, is predominantly Sunni Muslim but also has a minority from the Alawite sect of Shiite Islam, to which Assad belongs. His family has ruled Syria for over five decades.
Like other Syrian cities, Hama rebelled in 2011 against Assad after the government's brutal crackdown on anti-government protests, triggering a civil war that drew in foreign powers and jihadists.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Hama, where government troops were absent, and ambassadors from the United States and France arrived to meet the demonstrators, sparking government anger.
On July 31 of that year troops began a major offensive against the city, killing at least 139 people according to opposition groups.
'Butcher of Hama'
Decades earlier, in February 1982, a far bloodier crackdown occurred after an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. The group was at the time the main opposition to then-president Hafez al-Assad, father of the current president, and carried out several attacks.
In February 1982 Brotherhood members killed cadres of the ruling Baath Party in Hama, triggering brutal reprisals during a military offensive to quell the uprising using artillery and tanks.
Various sources estimate the deaths between 10,000 and 40,000 in the besieged and isolated city over about one month.
Hafez al-Assad's brother, Rifaat, carried out the repression as head of the "Defence Brigades", an elite force of the authorities.
The action earned him the nickname, "Butcher of Hama".
In March this year, the office of Switzerland's attorney general said it was charging Rifaat al-Assad with "ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal detentions".
His alleged "war crimes and crimes against humanity", it said, were committed "in his capacity as commander of the defence brigades... and commander of operations in Hama".
They took place "within the context of the armed conflict and the widespread and systematic attack launched against the population of the city of Hama", it said.
Precious heritage
Despite its dark history, Hama is known for its waterwheels, also known as "norias", which are the city's principal attraction along the Orontes River.
Developed in medieval times, they brought water to the city's gardens, bath houses, mosques and wells.
UNESCO, the United Nations world heritage body, calls them "unique, not only on the Orontes and in Syria, but probably in the entire world."
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Post time 8-12-2024 02:53 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Pemberontak yang dikata sunni tu ada yang aliran Wahabi, be careful pada yang menyokong sangat wahabi kat Malaysia ni, sooner or later you'll become extremist.
Assad dan syiah dah tumbang di Syria dan tak lama lagi Lebanon
makanya mereka bukanlah yg diramalkan as suffyani
siapakah calon As Suffyani seterusnya
atau cerita dan 'hadis' As Suffyani akan hilang ditelan waktu sampai dilupakan mcm cerita 'hadis' obama ialah org kulit hitam yg diphrophecied akan meruntuhkan kaabah
benda senang nak kena hadam.ini bukan soal agama.ini soal kuasa.aku selalu tanya pada Allah dlm hati kenapa Allah biarkan benda terjadi kat palestine.mungkin..mungkin Allah dah bagi jawapan pada hari ni.terlalu byk kebodohan dan pengkhianatan...
Post time 8-12-2024 01:43 PM
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