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Free Syrian Army is a military coup....
The Free Syrian Army is the main opposition army group in Syria. It is composed of defected Syrian Armed Forces personnel, who have been active during the Syrian Uprising. The formation of the opposition army group was announced on 29 July 2011 in a web video released by a group of uniformed defectors from the Syrian military, who called upon members of the army to defect and join them. The leader of the men, who identified himself as Colonel Riad al-Asaad, announced that the FSA would work with demonstrators to bring down the system and declared that all security forces attacking civilians are justified targets. Riad al-Asaad has stated that the Free Syrian Army has no political goals except the liberation of Syria from Bashar Assad's government. The FSA has also stated that the conflict is not sectarian, and that they have in their ranks Alawis who oppose the government, and that there will be no reprisals when it falls. On 23 September 2011, the Free Syrian Army merged with the Free Officers Movement and became the main opposition army group. By early December, there were an estimated 15,000 to 25,000 defectors from the armed forces according to activist and media sources, western intelligence sources estimated greater than 10,000 defectors, By the middle of January, the Free Syrian Army reported because of continuing defections a total of 40,000 men in its ranks. The actual number of soldiers defecting to the Free Syrian Army is unknown.
Explaining The Syrian Uprising (part of the Arab spring)
Goals -
Resignation of Bashar al-Assad
Democratic reforms
Regime change
Expanded civil rights
Recognition of Kurdish rights
Abolition of the Supreme State Security Court
Lifting of the emergency law
Characteristics -
Assassinations (government claim)
Civil resistance
Calls for sanctions
Demonstrations
General Strikes
Hacktivism
Hunger strikes
Insurgency by defectors
Mutiny Self-immolations
Suicide bombings (disputed, government claim) Sit-ins
Violent resistance in Homs (beginning in September), Hama, Daraa, Idlib, Douma, Zabadani, Saqba, rural Damascus, and Rankous.
Concessions given -
Emergency law lifted
Supreme State Security Court abolished
5,994 political prisoners released out of 30,000 detained
General amnesty from 15 March 2011 – 31 January 2012
Local administration reformed
Tax cuts
Increase in public sector salary
Citizenship granted to Kurds
So the Syrian government has given into all their demands except the president himself stepping down... what!!! you say, thats correct all the concessions are meeting the demands of the Free Syrian Army (FSA)
So why the military coup is still active?
Simply because of one man President Assad.
Now the FSA, have about 40,000 active members amongst it's ranks...
The population of Syria is 22,000,000 people.
The president is responsible for the safety of 22,000,000 people.
Think about this, if a president has given concessions based on the FSA demands, all that is left is the rest of the 22,000,000 millions he needs to keep safe.
Free Syrian Army is attacking and defying the government and taking on the Syrian Army, the Syrian Army is in charge of protecting the interests of government and people of Syria.
It's their doctrine to uphold the current Syrian regime...
President Assad has promised and is delivering on a more democratic infrastructure shifting from the old days to the new, effectively listening to the needs and wants of the Arab Spring movement..
Now I want to put this into perspective, if the government of any country is being overthrown by a faction of ex-military personnel, then violence will ensue, and civilians will get caught in the middle.
People blame Hamas for hiding within civilians when they are attacked using "Human Shields" as part of thief tactics. Well the free Syrian Army is doing exactly the same. They continue to threaten and attack the majority of Syria and that's a fact.
Assad has no choice but to tackle this situation head on, the Syrian army are defending their government infrastructure and military institutions...
Now CNN and the UN fully back the Free Syrian Army, for reasons unknown to me.... most of you probably come to the same conclusion of possibility like me, from what I can see some outside influences have infiltrated themselves into the FSA, groups like the Muslim brotherhood and possibly al-Qaeda insurgents hell bent of utilizing the situation for their own purposes. However the latter I doubt, because I have always thought of al-Qaeda as a non existent group... I really don't know why a military coup by a minority is gaining so much support, if anything they are terrorizing Syria and using it's locals as bait to draw the outside world into supporting a cause for regime change...
Who does that support outside of Syria?
Is this situation benefiting certain groups with a possible Iran invasion on the cards?
All you have to ask yourself is that if a military coup of minority was happening on your country and they tried taking over the leadership, Wouldn't the areas of occupation by the minority forces be under the threat of violence and conflict?
[link to www.en.wikipedia.org]
[link to www.en.wikipedia.org]
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