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29-Dec-19 World View -- Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya

Web Log - December, 2019

29-Dec-19 World View -- Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya

The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria

by John J. Xenakis

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Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya
The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria

Turkey to send Syrian anti-Assad rebels to Libya

Fighters in Hafter's Libyan National Army (LNA) on December 18 (AFP)

Fighters in Hafter's Libyan National Army (LNA) on December 18 (AFP)

As we've been reporting several times this month, the war in Libya has been heating up. There are two governments in Libya. The western government of the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by General Khalifa Haftar, has been moving east and attacking the internationally recognized Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.

The war is increasingly a proxy war. Haftar's LNA is backed with weapons and warplanes by Egypt and United Arab Emirates, while Qatar has been supplying weapons to the GNA. In recent months, Haftar's LNA is being helped by troops from the Wagner PMC Mercenary Group, the private army of Russia's president Vladimir Putin.

Turkey has joined Qatar on the side of the Tripoli-based GNA, and last month Turkey and Libya signed an agreement whereby Turkey would supply weapons to the GNA and also, if asked, would supply ground troops to the GNA.

Well, GNA prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj has formally asked Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send ground troops.

Erdogan really doesn't want to send Turkish troops to Libya, since that would be unpopular among the Turkish people, but he promised so he has to. So he's apparently found the ideal solution.

Erdogan has been working with anti-Assad rebel groups in northern Syria, so he's going to ask some of those rebels to go to Tripoli to fight against Haftar in the name of Turkey. Apparently the incentive is that each of the rebels will receive $300 upon signing the contract in Syria, and will receive $2,000 per month in Libya.

So that should make it truly a proxy war. It won't be Libyans fighting Libyans. It will be Syria's anti-Assad rebels, provided by Erdogan, fighting against Russia's Wagner mercenaries, provided by Putin.

Whether either side in this proxy battle is competent enough to win remains to be seen. However, the potential escalation in fighting is raising concerns. In Italy, which was Libya's colonial power once upon a time, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is strongly opposing Turkey's intervention and is calling for an internationally supervised no-fly zone in Libya. "A no-fly zone too can be an instrument for achieving a goal: the immediate cessation of hostilities."

I guess that's true, but let's recall that in 2011 the Libyan war took hold when the Arab League called for an internationally supervised no-fly zone in Libya. History may repeat itself.

The genocide and ethnic cleansing continue in Idlib, Syria

The massacre of innocent women and children by Syrian and Russian warplanes, including some reports of chemical weapons, along with Syrian ground troops, is continuing in full force.

In just the last month, the number of people who have been forced from their home has reached a quarter million. Most are headed north, wanting to cross the border into Turkey, and from there travel into Europe. So far, Turkey has kept the border closed. But the assault on Idlib, with 3.5 million people, shows no sign of slowing, and Turkey may not be able to keep the border closed when hundreds of thousands more try to push through.

Here's a statement by Raed Al Saleh, head of the White Helmet humanitarian group:

"It seems that 2019 was the year the international community and the UN completely abandoned Syria and politicians have even run out of words of condemnation.
My biggest fear as the year comes to a close is for the attacks to intensify further, causing new waves of displacement because there is nowhere left for people to run to. Every olive tree has become a tent and every camp has exceeded its capacity ten times over.
I still cannot understand how the world’s most powerful nations can meet those horrors with silence and inaction."

That statement is actually funny. He's complaining because almost nobody cares about the Holocaust going on in Idlib. Actually, there are three Holocausts going on today that almost nobody cares about, all targeting Sunni Muslims: China's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and enslavement of over a million Sunni Muslim Uighurs and Kazakhs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang Province), Buddhist Myanmar's (Burma's) genocide and ethnic cleansing of Sunni Muslim ethnic Rohingyas, and Bashar al-Assad's genocide and ethnic cleansing of his Sunni Muslim political opponents in Syria.

There are several Holocausts going on today, and nobody cares. Actually, nobody cared about the Nazi-Jew Holocaust while it was going on. To care about a Holocaust while it's actually going on is too politically painful, because the politicians, the trolls, the defenders, the acolytes, the deniers, the cheerleaders, the propagandists, and the collaborators all benefit from the Holocaust, the genocide, the slaughter, and will protect it. It's only after it's over that nobody stands to benefit, and then the wise men can stand up and say, "Never Again!"

So Raed Al Saleh should stop whining just accept the fact that there's going to be a bloody massacre of almost unimaginable proportions in Idlib. After it ends, he can go on TV and join the chorus saying "Never Again!"

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