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VoltaireNet, a pro-Assad website, has made available in English
the speech that Assad gave to parliament a week after the
massacre. As I suspected, he did not blame the FSA but simply
described it as a horror not perpetrated by the Syrian army.
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Last week, after the atrocious al-Houla massacre, they accused the
armed forces of committing it. In the beginning they said that it
is the result of artillery and tank shelling, but later they
retreated because they felt the amount of popular support for the
armed forces had and because accusing the armed forces is an
accusation to every Syrian citizen without exception of being a
criminal and a terrorist. That’s why they started talking about
pro-government militias, as they describe them.
What happened in al-Houla, al-Qazzaz, al-Midan, Deir Ezzour,
Aleppo, and many other places in Syria, and which we described as
brutal, heinous and ugly massacres, is in real fact very difficult
to describe. Even beasts do not do such things, particularly what
happened in al-Houla. I believe that neither the Arabic language
nor any other human language can describe what we saw. We, the
Syrians who lived this period, will continue to feel shame
whenever we remember it as long as we live. We hope that it will
not remain in the memory of our children and grandchildren. Still
I hope that we will retain the lessons learned from this crisis
but without the feelings and the images associated with it.
Hadn’t we felt the pain and the anger which reached boiling point
for me personally and for all of those who have seen these cruel
scenes on television, particularly the children, we wouldn’t be
human beings. This is the natural human feeling and the patriotic
feeling too. If we wanted to offer condolences, it is hard to
offer them to families and relatives because whole families were
killed. We better commiserate with ourselves for the levels that
some Syrians have reached, we commiserate with ourselves for the
level of criminality that we have seen, which is as painful as the
crime itself.
full: http://www.voltairenet.org/Speech-Delivered-by-H-E-President
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