IHRC official says nations do not want peace in Syria
Syria seems to have become a boiling cauldron of strife where many nations are trying to fish for their piece of meat.
What started as a demand against autocracy has deteriorated into a proxy war in which the people are the biggest casualties. Human rights activists and moderates feel that the demand for democracy has been snatched from activists by rebels bent on eliciting maximum mileage from the conflict.
As the proxy war involving the US and Saudi Arabia on one side and Russia and Iran on the other continues to escalate, Islamic Human Rights Commission founder Massoud Shadjareh talked to Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear about the developments that are happening in this nation. He is especially critical of the US and its allies, whom he believes are looking to destabilise the nation by encouraging a regime change.
Speaking about Washington’s true ambitions in the war, he said, ‘When you look at the interests of Saudi Arabia, who is pouring billions into this conflict, and…Turkey, you see that really they don’t want to have tranquillity and peace in that region. They’d had a commitment from the beginning for regime change.”
The US and its allies have stepped up their interventions in the nation on the pretext that they are looking to prevent the spread of Islamic militia such as the ISIS, also called Daesh. However, they seem to be going against their announced objective by first seeking the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Shadjaresh said. He added that without involving Syria in any kind of solution, a resolution to the conflict could be long and hard to come by.
Apprehensions of humanitarian groups such as Shadjaresh’s are high because the US is said to be planning for a mysterious plan B offensive, which could in fact fuel the already volatile conflict. There are rumours that plan B would be the division of Iraq and Syria along ethnic lines, which would be a very short-sighted move considering what has happened in Iraq, Libya and other similar states. If the nations are split along ethnic lines, local commanders would immediately take over small swathes of territory and the conflict would then be fought on a larger scale between many factions for no rhyme or reason according to the whims and fancies of local chieftains.
Shadjaresh said that a ‘solution’ of this kind could turn Daesh into a de facto government. He added, “It would legitimize the creation of a…Daesh-type of enclave in both countries, and it’s something that has now been promoted by the Saudis and its allies. This is really the problem of the United States…involvement in the Middle East. Wherever they…actually got involved, they have actually created bigger disasters than they were before. The reality is that this sort of gunboat diplomacy, trying to bring democracy [with] bombs and bullets, and supporting these insurgent groups, it’s really never going to work.”
The US has messed up with governments in the Middle East because of regional compulsions and/or misinformation fed to its egotistic leaders. The US’ misadventures have created a living hell for the people of the region.
Its involvement in Iran, Iraq, Libya, and so on has shown how it can pursue an agenda for its own benefit, throwing the life of the local citizens into permanent chaos. Following the destruction of local governments, which seemed to have control in the areas, the intervention of the US has only provided fertile land to jihadists and other forces that raise their head in the absence of a power that can balance its dubious intentions.
Shadjaresh concluded, “Any fool could create this mess, but to clear it up is becoming a huge issue.”
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