Anti-Assad Forces Responsible for Houla Massacre - Report

June 11, 2012 by legitgov

Anti-Assad Forces Responsible for Houla Massacre - Report 09 Jun 2012 According to a new report in Germany's leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad... According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered "entire Alawi families" in the village of Taldo in the Houla region. Already at the beginning of April, Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix of the St. James Monastery warned of rebel atrocities' being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as government atrocities. She cited the case of a massacre in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs. According to an account published in French on the monastery's website, rebels gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya and blew up the building with dynamite. They then attributed the crime to the regular Syrian army. [Right, just like in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan when Blackwater and CIAciopaths were blowing up everything in sight and blaming 'insurgents.' --LRP]