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vladimir Putin
It is nearly a year since Putin’s Russia entered
the civil war in Syria to save the day for Bashar
al-Assad.
Putin has already declared mission
accomplished once and flew most of his
bombers home after re-opening the coastal road
to Latakia, liberating the ancient city of Palmyra
and saving Damascus from imminent attack.
He is now flying them all back in an assault on
Aleppo, one of the oldest, continuously inhabited
cities in the world.
Just as he did in Ukraine the amoral opportunist
Putin saw an opportunity: to finish off Aleppo,
and with it a war that has lasted five and a half
years, enshrining himself at home and abroad as
the man who gets the job done, for Russia.
Russian generals have done an Aleppo before.
The use of deniable militias, thermobaric or
vacuum bombs (TOS1A heavy flamethrowers
which suck the oxygen out of the air within a
500-metre radius), phosphorous, ‘double tap’
strikes which target rescuers, deliberate attacks
on hospitals, market places, mosques and
anywhere where civilians gather in war time - all
these war crimes Russia has perpetrated before,
in 1999-2000 in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya,
which the UN has described as the most
destroyed city on earth.
In a passionate personal appeal from Geneva, the
UN's Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura,
has said the world needed to avert “another
Srebrenica, another Rwanda”.
He said he was willing to go personally to eastern
Aleppo to escort up to 1,000 Islamist fighters
out of the city if it would mean a halt to the
bombardment by Russian and Syrian forces.
October 2016
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