Human Shields Terrorized In Syria: Giant Steel Cages Full Of Alawite Women Parked In Front Of Rebel Military Positions

 

Tom Coghlan Beirut

Tom Coghlan Beirut

 

Human Shields Terrorized In Syria: Giant Steel Cages Full Of Alawite Women Parked In Front Of Rebel Military Positions

TMR Editor’s Note:
The Alawites have been VERY good friends with the Christian communities throughout Syria for centuries.  They practice a religion that has assimilated some of the more mystical aspects of Christianity, as well as Sufism and traditional Shiite Islam.

They are only being used as human shields because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s family comes form a long line of Alawites.  Hence, the rebels know that Assad would not permit the Russian airstrikes that would put his fellow Alawites in harm’s way. The following link reveals much more of the elusive back story.

Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: Secret Back Story Reveals Why The West Cannot Topple His Government

The question remains: Just who are these repugnant cowards who would use innocent women in this manner?

Much more importantly, why is the USA still funding and arming these Anti-Christian mercenary rebels from other lands?  And, how does Obama justify the material and moral support of such an odious group of terrorists?

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Hundreds of women locked in cages to act as human shields against Assad’s air-strikes: Rebels parade families loyal to president through streets as horrifying deterrent

  • Locals loyal to President Assad rounded-up in the Syrian city of Douma
  • Held in metal cages which rebels place near targets to prevent air-strikes
  • Attacks from Russian or Syrian jets would mean killing Assad supporters
  • Almost 500 Alawites now held captive in the cubed jails on flat-bed trucks
  • For more of the latest on the war in Syria visit www.dailymail.co.uk/syria

By EUAN MCLELLAND FOR MAILONLINE

Women loyal to President Assad in a besieged region of Damascus are being paraded in metal cages in the hope of preventing further air-strikes raining down on a stricken suburb of the Syrian capital.

Almost 500 Alawites – male and female – have been rounded up by Army of Islam militants and are now being held captive in the cubed jails mounted on the back of flat-bed trucks and pick-ups.

The city of Douma has been pulverised by daily attacks by Russian and Syrian bombing raids.

Hundreds of women locked in cages to act as human shields
Women loyal to President Assad in a besieged region of Damascus are being paraded in metal cages to prevent further air-strikes raining down on a stricken Syrian suburb

Women loyal to President Assad in a besieged region of Damascus are being paraded in metal cages to prevent further air-strikes raining down on a stricken Syrian suburb

Almost 500 Alawites - male and female - have been rounded up by Army of Islam militants and are now being held captive in the cubed jails mounted on the back of flat-bed trucks and pick-ups

Almost 500 Alawites – male and female – have been rounded up by Army of Islam militants and are now being held captive in the cubed jails mounted on the back of flat-bed trucks and pick-ups

However, the locals see this extreme retaliation as the only way of ensuring the airborne attacks are ended – as it would mean President Assad targeting his own supporters.

At least 100 cages are now being used to ferry the hostages around the city, in the Eastern Ehouta region.

Videos of the trucks have been shared on YouTube and clearly show terrified women helpless inside the thick metal fencing.

Local rebel groups see this extreme retaliation as the only way of ensuring the airborne attacks are ended - as it would mean President Assad targeting his own supporters

Local rebel groups see this extreme retaliation as the only way of ensuring the airborne attacks are ended – as it would mean President Assad targeting his own supporters

At least 100 cages are now being used to ferry the hostages around the city, in the Eastern Ehouta region

At least 100 cages are now being used to ferry the hostages around the city, in the Eastern Ehouta region

Videos of the trucks have been shared on YouTube and clearly show terrified women helpless inside the thick metal fencing

Videos of the trucks have been shared on YouTube and clearly show terrified women helpless inside the thick metal fencing

Panicked men are also seen asking to be released from their enclosures.

However, the rebel groups continue to parade the trapped hostages, driving through streets where dozens of buildings have been reduced to rubble by bombing campaigns.

One woman, Mervat Ali, from Qardaha, can be heard saying: ‘We wish that the Russian warplanes never shell civilians again.

‘We are experiencing fear here with the people.’

Humanitarian group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have confirmed that at least 70 people were killed and 500 injured in a series of horrific air-strikes against Douma on Friday.

Panicked men are also seen asking to be released from their enclosures, with up to ten squeezed in to each of the cages at a time

Panicked men are also seen asking to be released from their enclosures, with up to ten squeezed in to each of the cages at a time

Men held hostage in one of the cages hold on to its sides to keep their balance as they're driven through the near demolished city of Douma

Men held hostage in one of the cages hold on to its sides to keep their balance as they’re driven through the near demolished city of Douma

Human Rights Watch slammed the latest action by rebels on the ground, alleging that similar caging tactics were used in the Shia village of Fue, in the north of the country, last month

Human Rights Watch slammed the latest action by rebels on the ground, alleging that similar caging tactics were used in the Shia village of Fue, in the north of the country, last month

The group’s principal hospital was also hit in the attack, with a further six people killed by shelling on Monday.

Strikes against Douma killed 550 people during their peak in August. More than 120 of those who died were children.

Human Rights Watch slammed the latest action by rebels on the ground, alleging that similar caging tactics were used in the Shia village of Fue, in the north of the country, last month.

Middle East director Nadim Houry told The Times: ‘Two wrongs do not make a right.

‘You can’t protect civilians by endangering other civilians.’

He added: ‘There has to be real action by international actors.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3301364/Hundreds-women-locked-cages-act-human-shields-against-Assad-s-air-strikes-Rebels-parade-families-loyal-president-streets-horrifying-deterrent.html#ixzz3qRJM1FNN