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EYE ON SYRIA: CONCERN MOUNTS AS ANOTHER ARMENIAN DIES IN ALEPPO
News | 24.07.13 | 16:32
Photo: Screenshot from youtube.com
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
In the Near East, where clashes between rebels and the state army
continue inflicting heavy human casualties, two passenger buses from
Aleppo to Beirut suffered from an armed assault, leaving one Armenian
dead, 16 more injured.
Press Service of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports,
with reference to the Armenian Embassy in Damascus, that the victim
was a mother of two, 40-year-old Tamar Varvaryan-Srunyan (her husband
and two children are among the injured passengers). Two of the injured
Armenians are in life-threatening condition.
Zhirair Reissian, press secretary of Aleppo~Rs Berio Armenian Diocese,
told ArmeniaNow that some got checked out after receiving first aid,
others are under doctors~R supervision.
~SNo changes in the city, the armed clashes continue, with gunshots
and explosions and unceasing human casualties,~T says Reissian, adding
that leaving Aleppo is challenging, too, that is why few people would
take the risk.
The hostilities of the past two years in Syria, with its 80,000-member
Armenian community, have taken more than a 100,000 lives, 50 among
them Armenian.
Chief of Staff at the Diaspora Ministry Firdus Zakaryan, also
leading the task force group managing Syrian-Armenians~R issues,
told ArmeniaNow there are currently around 9,000 Syrian-Armenians
in Armenia at the moment. Their inflow has stopped because of the
blocked air and land communications.
Syria remains to be gravely challenged with unrest. There has been
news recently that the authorities are using chemical weapon against
the opposition. Days ago General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the US Congress, outlined five
options for U.S. military action in the Syrian conflict, according
to which the United States can provide ~Sa train, advise and assist
mission~T, which could raise opposition fighters~R capabilities but
carries a risk that extremists could gain access to U.S. weapons;
limited stand-off strikes, establishing a no-fly zone or buffer zones.
The last, most complex option Dempsey outlined ~W controlling chemical
weapons ~W would require a no-fly zone, air and missile strikes and
thousands of troops on the ground.
Giro Manoyan, leading the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Dashnaktsutyun~Rs Armenian Cause office in Yerevan, told ArmeniaNow
that only Turkey and Qatar support the external extremist forces in
Syria, others are trying to localize the issue one way or another
and deter the forces that have come from the outside, however the
Syrian people pay the price for all of it, and so are the Armenians
living there.
~SArmenia has to keep in touch as much as possible with all the key
forces, so that should the need arise it could turn to one of them
for the protection of Armenia~Rs interests ~V in this case the safety
of the Armenian community of Syria, which I believe is more or less
being done,~T says Manoyan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy0gYb4yzuM
http://armenianow.com/news/47987/war_syria_armenians_passenger_bus
News | 24.07.13 | 16:32
Photo: Screenshot from youtube.com
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
In the Near East, where clashes between rebels and the state army
continue inflicting heavy human casualties, two passenger buses from
Aleppo to Beirut suffered from an armed assault, leaving one Armenian
dead, 16 more injured.
Press Service of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports,
with reference to the Armenian Embassy in Damascus, that the victim
was a mother of two, 40-year-old Tamar Varvaryan-Srunyan (her husband
and two children are among the injured passengers). Two of the injured
Armenians are in life-threatening condition.
Zhirair Reissian, press secretary of Aleppo~Rs Berio Armenian Diocese,
told ArmeniaNow that some got checked out after receiving first aid,
others are under doctors~R supervision.
~SNo changes in the city, the armed clashes continue, with gunshots
and explosions and unceasing human casualties,~T says Reissian, adding
that leaving Aleppo is challenging, too, that is why few people would
take the risk.
The hostilities of the past two years in Syria, with its 80,000-member
Armenian community, have taken more than a 100,000 lives, 50 among
them Armenian.
Chief of Staff at the Diaspora Ministry Firdus Zakaryan, also
leading the task force group managing Syrian-Armenians~R issues,
told ArmeniaNow there are currently around 9,000 Syrian-Armenians
in Armenia at the moment. Their inflow has stopped because of the
blocked air and land communications.
Syria remains to be gravely challenged with unrest. There has been
news recently that the authorities are using chemical weapon against
the opposition. Days ago General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the US Congress, outlined five
options for U.S. military action in the Syrian conflict, according
to which the United States can provide ~Sa train, advise and assist
mission~T, which could raise opposition fighters~R capabilities but
carries a risk that extremists could gain access to U.S. weapons;
limited stand-off strikes, establishing a no-fly zone or buffer zones.
The last, most complex option Dempsey outlined ~W controlling chemical
weapons ~W would require a no-fly zone, air and missile strikes and
thousands of troops on the ground.
Giro Manoyan, leading the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Dashnaktsutyun~Rs Armenian Cause office in Yerevan, told ArmeniaNow
that only Turkey and Qatar support the external extremist forces in
Syria, others are trying to localize the issue one way or another
and deter the forces that have come from the outside, however the
Syrian people pay the price for all of it, and so are the Armenians
living there.
~SArmenia has to keep in touch as much as possible with all the key
forces, so that should the need arise it could turn to one of them
for the protection of Armenia~Rs interests ~V in this case the safety
of the Armenian community of Syria, which I believe is more or less
being done,~T says Manoyan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy0gYb4yzuM
http://armenianow.com/news/47987/war_syria_armenians_passenger_bus