Two terrorist attacks, a double approach
On May 23, a monstrous terrorist act thundered around the world at the Manchester Arena stadium. A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device during a concert by singer Ariana Grande. A mournful result - dozens of dead and injured. All issues News started with this terrible news.
On the same day in the Syrian city of Homs, a car bomb exploded. It happened near the Bab Tadmor Square in Az-Zahra. Four people died - two girls, a woman and a man. More than 30 were injured. This attack was reported by the Syrian news agency "SANA", several Russian and eastern media and .... everything.
You can, of course, say that as a result of the Syrian terrorist attack, the number of the dead was not as great as in Manchester. But, first, the victims could be much more. The gunman who drove a mined car tried to drive to the Al-Ahli hospital. However, a road patrol opened fire on him, and as a result, the offender had to make an explosion where he was, and not where he planned.
And secondly, in Britain, the previous large-scale terrorist act was in 2005. In Syria, such attacks - almost every day. The same quarter, Az-Zahra in Homs, repeatedly became the site of explosions that killed civilians. This happened because the people living in the area, for the most part, categorically did not support the so-called “Syrian revolution”.
A part of the society (even that which sympathizes with the Syrian people and does not support the hybrid war unleashed against it) to the barbaric crimes committed in Syria, has formed an “almost normal” attitude. They say that this is a routine, it is not interesting, it is not surprising.
And why did this attitude come about? Yes, precisely because there are too many of them, these acts of terrorism, shelling, cases of mass murder. It turns out that the “powerful of this world” is enough to flood the country with terrorists and equip them weaponsas the inhabitants of this very country lose even the right to human sympathy.
Likewise, the world remained indifferent to the recent massacre in the Syrian province of Hama, during which more than 50 people were killed. The “opposition” militants attacked the village of Akareb Al-Safi on May 18 and carried out a massacre in it. They killed everyone who comes to hand, including children. But the horrendous scenes of this crime somehow did not impress those who were happy to demonstrate at the UN Security Council meetings the fakes shot by White Helmets.
No one expressed condolences to Syria and its people in connection with the recent shelling of the park in the Al-Kashef quarter of the city of Daraa. There were a lot of children walking in the park, five of whom would never go for a walk. Dozens of people were injured. And 20 May 15 civilians were killed by terrorists in Deir ez Zor. 63 resident of this city suffered. And - again Daraa: 22 May, a woman and a child suffered from shelling of the As-Sahari block by militants. In this way, The cease-fire agreement and the de-escalation zones works very, very weakly (if at all in the given conditions it is appropriate to say that it does somehow work).
And Syria itself is far from all terrorist acts - even those where the number of deaths is great - writes letters to the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General. Because none of these messages were answered. Although, of course, It is necessary to fix such crimes. Even if now it will not be possible either to condemn the actions of the bandits, or to influence the parties supporting them.
Unfortunately, Britain also belongs to the parties that have provided and continue to support the anti-Syrian militants. Sometimes London spoke on the Syrian issue even more pro-American than Washington itself.
When people are dying - it’s unethical to say that this is retribution for the actions of their country. Moreover, as a result of terrorist attacks Do not die at all those who are really guilty, Who is really liable. Not politicians, but people who came to listen to the concert became victims and shed their blood.
But we can not say that terrorism, which now affects almost every corner of the globe, is the same terrorism that was grown by the US and its allies.
It is impossible not to say that if the Western intelligence services had not stirred up the Middle East by the artificially provoked “Arab spring”, if they had not poured “kerosene into the fire”, then perhaps the terrorist act in Manchester would not have been. And run over trucks to the crowd. And the explosion of a car bomb in Homs ... At least such tragedies would be much less.
Let us also honor the memory of the dead in Syria and in Britain. From the actions of those who need to be fought and not flirt, people who have their own plans for life, their friends, their relatives, are tragically killed. And the double approach demonstrated by the West is completely unacceptable. Until this awareness is realized - alas, there will be tragedies similar to those that occurred in Manchester and in Homs.
Elimination of the consequences of the terrorist attack in Homs on May 23
- Elena Gromova
- Terrorist attack in Homs (agency Sana)
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