The UK has said that the Syrian government bombed an opposition-held area of the country in the immediate aftermath of Monday’s disastrous earthquake.
MP Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, criticised President Bashar al-Assad for launching a truly cruel and blatant aggression on the town of Marea, found in Syria’s northwest that was hit by the quake.
Marea sits about 70 miles south of the Turkish town of Pazarcik, which is near the centre of Monday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake. So far, more than 9,500 people have been confirmed dead across Turkey and Syria, the number is predicted to increase.
Kearns said the town in Syria’s opposition-held enclave had come under attack as residents tackled the immediate aftermath of the killer earthquake.
Ms Kearns told British MPs on Tuesday that yesterday he (Assad) attacked Marea, which was an area impacted by the earthquake, in what was a truly heartless and heinous attack and opportunism for him to try to bomb and destroy the moderate opposition.
Responding to the MP’s statement, UK Foreign Secretary attacked the Assad regime for the totally unacceptable bombing.
He said that sadly it speaks to a long-standing pattern of behaviour by the Assad regime, a regime that they condemn, have sanctioned and would continue to bring about sanctions, working with their international friends and allies, to try to stop behaviour like this from happening again.
He added that Kearns was entirely right to emphasise the totally unacceptable bombing of the areas in the immediate aftermath of this natural tragedy.
The statements came after the White Helmets organisation had issued a plea to diplomats, calling on them to pressure Damascus to ensure that there’s no bombing in the regions impacted by the earthquake.
The Syrian Red Crescent, meanwhile, appealed to Western countries to lift embargoes and supply support as Assad’s government remains a pariah in the West, complicating international cross-border relief efforts.
The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Khaled Hboubati, told a news conference in Damascus, emphasising the demand for construction machinery for the rescue effort that he calls on for the lifting of embargoes on Syria, and that was an important thing for them.
Embargoes by the United States, the EU and some Arab nations have been in place since 2011 after Assad’s government cracked down on protests against his rule.
Clearly, if humankind can do this kind of thing, it only confirms that man is disconnected from reality and humanity, and there’s no hope for people, no respect, and no compassion, and just when you thought the world couldn’t be more evil, and you have to be a special kind of evil to do something like this.
It really does look like that the devil is alive and kicking on planet Earth.
A catastrophe such as a horrific quake brings out the real heroes of the hour and evildoers. We should be concentrating on building each other up, not killing each other.
This is just ingrained depravity and beyond humanity. The peacemakers have departed this world, and it seems that narrow-minded aggressors are striving to bring it to a sudden end. Evil people have extended their tentacles into our society, and governments have failed all of us, but then all dictator types are sadistic, and their purpose is to destroy.
Unfortunately, the human race has animals in its midst, and amazingly they climb to the top of the pile when disasters occur. Like these people aren’t going through enough!
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