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Besieged Syria rebels plead for help

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lebanon map qusayr Syrian rebels under siege in a town near the Lebanese border issued a desperate appeal on Thursday for reinforcements and medical supplies as government troops and Lebanese  Hezbollah guerrillas pounded their defences.

High hopes the  rebels had of sweeping Assad from power have been ground down on the battlefield and could suffer a further major setback if they lose Qusair, which guards their supply route from Lebanon and hinders government efforts to maintain contact between the capital Damascus and a coastline that is the stronghold of Assad’s Alawite minority.

Warning that the town, once home to some 30,000 people, could be wiped off the map and hundreds of wounded risked dying without help, the rebel fighters inside Qusair issued an appeal on social media for allies to come to break the siege.

“The town is surrounded and there’s no way to bring in medical aid,” Malek Ammar, an opposition activist in the town, told Reuters by an Internet link, saying about 100 of the 700 wounded needed oxygen.

“What we need them to do,” he said of other rebel units, “is come to the outskirts of the city and attack the checkpoints so we can get routes in and out of the city.”

In a statement, the rebel commanders warned of dire consequences if help fails to arrive for men who have been fighting house to house for over a week against a force armed with tanks and rocket-launchers and spearheaded by Lebanese fighters from Hezbollah, seasoned in wars against Israel:

“If all rebel fronts do not move to stop this crime being led by Hezbollah and Assad’s traitorous army of dogs … we will soon be saying that there was once a city called Qusair.”

Reuters

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4 responses to “Besieged Syria rebels plead for help”

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    5thDrawer

    Russia’s revenge for their ventures into the area years before ….

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    5thDrawer

    Russia’s revenge for their ventures into the area years before ….

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    BBC – 1st report – 31st May in Qusair:
    Dozens of fighters have arrived to reinforce rebel units battling to hold off a Syrian government and Hezbollah assault on the key town of Qusair.
    Hadi, an activist inside the town, told BBC Radio 4’s Newshour that he could not put a precise figure on the number of reinforcements for security reasons.
    But he said they had been battling to free around 900 wounded people, including pregnant women, who were trapped by the violence.
    He added there was no water or electricity in the town and people were, “waiting to die”.

    2nd earlier report:
    Women and children are dying in the battle for control of Qusair and more than 600 people there have been injured, a doctor in Syria has told the BBC.
    He said he had seen Hezbollah fighters with his own eyes, and they had strengthened the Assad forces.
    He accused the Syrian President Bashar al Assad of oppression, saying civilians in the city did not have drinking water or bread.
    “Up until now he [Assad] hasn’t let a single child leave the city… he actually wants Hezbollah to take the lives of our women and children,” he said.

    Why don’t they put up a white flag?? Well … considering this among others like the 300 in Damascus:

    3rd report – Baniyas&Al-Baida – May 2nd – 3 day operation to kill people after an attack on Assad’s troops near there:
    ‘State media said 40 terrorists were killed over the three-day operation but eyewitnesses talk of a frenzied sectarian assault by Alawite militias against the local Sunni population.
    Numerous pictures and videos that appear to show the aftermath of Baniyas are horrific; men, women and children, some terribly disfigured, piled together, and what appear to be entire families killed.
    The women we interviewed described similar scenes. “There were slaughtered corpses and charred bodies everywhere”, says Om Abed.
    “Houses were on fire. The people inside them were burning. An entire family lay down dead, slaughtered in one house. There was so much blood.”‘
    Toll … only 40 rebels, but over 200 others including women and children.

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    5thDrawer

    BBC – 1st report – 31st May in Qusair:
    Dozens of fighters have arrived to reinforce rebel units battling to hold off a Syrian government and Hezbollah assault on the key town of Qusair.
    Hadi, an activist inside the town, told BBC Radio 4’s Newshour that he could not put a precise figure on the number of reinforcements for security reasons.
    But he said they had been battling to free around 900 wounded people, including pregnant women, who were trapped by the violence.
    He added there was no water or electricity in the town and people were, “waiting to die”.

    2nd earlier report:
    Women and children are dying in the battle for control of Qusair and more than 600 people there have been injured, a doctor in Syria has told the BBC.
    He said he had seen Hezbollah fighter with his own eyes, and they had strengthened the Assad forces.
    He accused the Syrian President Bashar al Assad of oppression, saying civilians in the city did not have drinking water or bread.
    “Up until now he [Assad] hasn’t let a single child leave the city… he actually wants Hezbollah to take the lives of our women and children,” he said.

    Why don’t they put up a while flag?? Well … considering this among others like the 300 in Damascus:

    3rd report – Baniyas&Al-Baida – May 2nd – 3 day operation to kill people after an attack on Assad’s troops near there:
    State media said 40 terrorists were killed over the three-day operation but eyewitnesses talk of a frenzied sectarian assault by Alawite militias against the local Sunni population.
    Numerous pictures and videos that appear to show the aftermath of Baniyas are horrific; men, women and children, some terribly disfigured, piled together, and what appear to be entire families killed.
    The women we interviewed described similar scenes. “There were slaughtered corpses and charred bodies everywhere”, says Om Abed.
    “Houses were on fire. The people inside them were burning. An entire family lay down dead, slaughtered in one house. There was so much blood.”
    Toll … only 40 rebels, but over 200 others including women and children.

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