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TURKEY'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE ATTACK ON SYRIAN-ARMENIANS IN KASSAB
Neon Tommy (USC)
March27 2014
Syuzanna Petrosyan, Alex Gold |
The violence of the Syrian civil war continued this week as Al Qaeda
affiliated groups Jabhat Al Nusra and Ahrar Al Shamp launched a major
offensive against the Syrian-Armenian village of Kassab this week,
capturing the small town located in northwestern Syria near the
Turkish border.
The groups' attack was aided by the downing of a Syrian jet by the
Turkish Military. Eyewitnesses claim that the jet was over Syrian
territory and that the shooting of the jet is part of a Turkish
military offensive against Syrians in the Kassab area.
The attack on the predominantly Armenian town in the province of
Latakia resulted in a mass exodus of the entire Armenian community.
An amateur video posted online showed two opposition rebels walking
though Kassab, raising their arms in celebration. "The video appeared
genuine and corresponded with The Associated Press reporting," states
the Sacramento Bee.
The opposition is now in control of the Kassab border crossing to
Turkey, and the Armenian town of the same name.
Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians in the same region
and seized over 200 as hostages during an attack in Latakia last
August, an act labeled a war crime by Human Rights Watch and other
international observers.
SEE ALSO: Syria's Civil War In Australian Suburbs
The Turkish government allows rebels to use Turkish territory as a
"logistical and support base," reports the Boston Globe. Turkey also
provides weapons and allows fighters to move freely across the border.
The participation of Turkey in the destruction of the Armenian
populated town in Syria cannot be reflected upon without remembering
the murder of 1.5 million Armenians during the Genocide in 1915
perpetrated by the Turkish Ottoman government in the same region.
For Armenians across the world, memories of atrocities and injustice
gloom over this week's events as survivors of the genocide in Kassab
are once more refugees in a perennial plight for survival.
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/03/turkeys-involvement-attack-syrian-armenians-kassab
Neon Tommy (USC)
March27 2014
Syuzanna Petrosyan, Alex Gold |
The violence of the Syrian civil war continued this week as Al Qaeda
affiliated groups Jabhat Al Nusra and Ahrar Al Shamp launched a major
offensive against the Syrian-Armenian village of Kassab this week,
capturing the small town located in northwestern Syria near the
Turkish border.
The groups' attack was aided by the downing of a Syrian jet by the
Turkish Military. Eyewitnesses claim that the jet was over Syrian
territory and that the shooting of the jet is part of a Turkish
military offensive against Syrians in the Kassab area.
The attack on the predominantly Armenian town in the province of
Latakia resulted in a mass exodus of the entire Armenian community.
An amateur video posted online showed two opposition rebels walking
though Kassab, raising their arms in celebration. "The video appeared
genuine and corresponded with The Associated Press reporting," states
the Sacramento Bee.
The opposition is now in control of the Kassab border crossing to
Turkey, and the Armenian town of the same name.
Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians in the same region
and seized over 200 as hostages during an attack in Latakia last
August, an act labeled a war crime by Human Rights Watch and other
international observers.
SEE ALSO: Syria's Civil War In Australian Suburbs
The Turkish government allows rebels to use Turkish territory as a
"logistical and support base," reports the Boston Globe. Turkey also
provides weapons and allows fighters to move freely across the border.
The participation of Turkey in the destruction of the Armenian
populated town in Syria cannot be reflected upon without remembering
the murder of 1.5 million Armenians during the Genocide in 1915
perpetrated by the Turkish Ottoman government in the same region.
For Armenians across the world, memories of atrocities and injustice
gloom over this week's events as survivors of the genocide in Kassab
are once more refugees in a perennial plight for survival.
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/03/turkeys-involvement-attack-syrian-armenians-kassab