The Houleh Massacre: Al-Assad's Tyrannical Regime Murdering Its People And Commit Crimes Against Humanity

17 June 2012

By Khalid Amayreh

The gruesome slaughter of more than a hundred innocent Syrian civilians, including more than 30 children, at the hands of the Syrian regime two days ago should be a turning point in the annals of the Syrian people's bitter struggle to rid themselves of one of the most murderous regimes tyranny has ever produced.

According to reliable sources in the Syrian capital, Alawite and other Shiite cutthroats working for the regime, otherwise known as Shabbiha (Arabic for thugs), converged on the bombed-out small town as inhabitants huddled in fear in their homes in order to be safe, as much as possible, from unmitigated artillery bombardment which had continued nonstop for the previous 73 hours.

Using light firearms as well as swords and daggers, the government-backed killers moved from house to house, murdering people in cold blood. Several entire families were butchered as they clung to their homes for protection from falling artillery shells.

Some eyewitnesses reported that the thugs decapitated children in front of their parents and siblings before finishing off the rest. Some of the murdered kids are as young as five years old. There was a child who was only three years of age. The Syrian regime's media was conspicuously gleeful and sadistic about the pornographic slaughter, blaming "armed gangs" and "foreign infiltrators" for what happened.

Language stands nearly powerless before this kind of nefarious murderousness. One philosopher once said even Satan himself has not devised an adequate punishment befitting a child killer.

There is no doubt that the brashly sectarian regime in Damascus, which belongs to the small anthropomorphist Alawite sect, which believes that Prophet Muhammed's cousin and son-in-law, Ali bin Abi Taleb, was God incarnate.

The heretic sect, which makes up some 10% of the country's overall population, was able to tightly hold all the reins of power in Syria, taking advantage of the conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights and utilizing pan-Arab nationalistic rhetoric.

Thus, the regime consistently accused political opponents of being Zionist collaborators. However, the real goal has always been and continues to be the consolidation and prolongation of the sectarian basis of the tyrannical regime.

Agents and acolytes affiliated with the regime are already saying that "Imma al Assad aww Nehreq el-Balad" which translates into "either Assad remains in power or we will burn down Syria."

Russia, China and Iran seem to tacitly but effectively concur. The two countries continue to stand behind the regime, politically, economically and militarily. As to Iran, it is indulging in one of the most treacherous behaviors ever since the Khomeini revolution in 1978. Iran routinely claims to be at the forefront of global powers fighting on the side of the oppressed in Palestine, Lebanon and other parts of the world. But in Syria, Iranian personnel, money and weapons are enabling the regime to murder its own citizens with impunity. Iran's motives behind its dogged support for the Assad regime are also markedly sectarian despite claims to the contrary.

Iran stands decidedly on the side of Yazid against Hussein in Syria. Yazid, the son of Mua'awiya, is widely believed to be responsible for the murder of Hussein, the Prophet's grand son, a central figure in Shiite Islam.

This portrayal may be uncomfortable for the Iranian regime and its supporters, but it is a fact that only people devoid of honesty and rectitude would deny.

In addition, the sectarian-motivated embrace of the Syrian regime by the Iranian clerics seems to have dried up all sympathy and support for Iran and Shiite causes among hundreds of millions of Sunni Muslims, especially in the Arab world. In Palestine, for example, all pictures of Hizbullah leaders Hasan Nasrullah have disappeared from Palestinian streets, as many people began referring to the Shiite leader as "Nasrul-Shaytan." Shaytan means Satan.

This is only one aspect of the massive losses Iran has incurred as a consequence of its ostensibly criminal and misplaced support for the Nazi-like regime of Bashar Assad.

The Houleh massacre has also, once again, underscored the moral bankruptcy of the world's main influential powers. Indeed, by watching the Syrian regime slaughtering its own people en mass, the main powers, including the US, Russia, China as well as France and Britain are exposing their moral nakedness and political callousness and evilness.

Imagine, just imagine, how the world would react if Jews were being slaughtered by the thousands. But, alas, the Syrians are poor Arab Muslims, bereft of oil or other important natural resources that would make the west salivate for.

Hence, the callous indifference toward their plight.

This shockingly disgraceful stance of the international community should really prompt every human conscience to demand a thorough overhaul of the international system, a system that has proved its utter cruelty and even criminality.

Indeed, a system that effectively allows tyrannical nation-states to murder its people and commit crimes against humanity under the rubric of national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of other states is not worth maintaining to say the very least.

Mass murder, including massacres such as the Houleh carnage, must never be allowed to occur, ironically, in the name of international law. Stalins, Hitlers, Pol Pots, Ariel Sharons, Assads and like-minded tyrants and mass murderers should never be allowed to practice and enjoy their favorite hobbies, mass murder and genocide.

Otherwise, more criminal countries, such as Israel, would argue, perhaps convincingly, that the international community is unfit to even censure Israel for murdering Palestinians at a time when the very same international community is shockingly silent vis-à-vis the more pornographic slaughter in Syria, contenting itself with the macabre task of counting the dead.

So far, 12000 Syrians have been killed in 14 months of revolution against one of the world's most diabolical tyrannies. The real number of the victims may have surpassed the 20,000-figure.

Now, the question which every conscientious human being must ask himself or herself is when the world will move to stop this genocide-in-the-making? Or else, must we get ourselves inured to the fact that the international community is virtually totally helpless and powerless, so much that the Hitlers and Stalins of Damascus will be allowed to commit a full-fledged genocide against the Syrian people, whose only "crime" it their enduring vigor and determined pursuit of freedom and dignity?

 

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