En Siria, las vidas civiles no importan

Publicado originalmente en ‘Hummus For Thought’ (Joey Husseini Ayoub Ed.)

Desde la llegada de Trump al poder se ha producido una importante escalada en la intervención estadounidense en Siria, supuestamente para derrotar al ISIS.

Voluntarios de los Cascos Blancos – Jina, Alepo

Los Estados Unidos ya tienen cientos de efectivos de sus Fuerzas Especiales luchando en el terreno junto a las Fuerzas Democráticas de Siria y les dan respaldo con centenares de ataques aéreos. Ahora se ha desplegado una unidad de artillería de los Marines y se planea enviar más tropas de tierra.

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In Syria, civilian lives don’t matter

White Helmet volunteers work to free trapped victims of US airstrikes in Al Jina, Aleppo

Originally published at Hummus for Thought

Since Trump came to power there has been a marked escalation of the US intervention in Syria, supposedly to defeat ISIS.

The US already has hundreds of Special Operations forces fighting on the ground alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces and has backed them with hundreds of airstrikes. Now a marine artillery unit has been deployed to Syria to support the battle to take Raqqa and the US is planning on sending in more ground troops.

Exile: Forced displacement and demographic change in Syria

The green buses finally arrive in Al Waer, Homs, March 2017

This article was originally published in January at In These Times. It can be found in Spanish here.

The world watched, throughout November and December 2016, as conditions in the rebel-held area of Aleppo became unbearable. There, amid heavy snowfall, thousands of residents were forcibly displaced from their homes. Most were sent to rebel-held Idlib, where the regime is concentrating its opponents and may soon concentrate its military might. Some of those sent to regime-held west Aleppo were reportedly arrested, including Ahmad Mustafa, a journalist with Halab Today, and Abdulhadi Kamel, a volunteer with the Syria Civil Defense. Others were forcibly conscripted by the regime army.