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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