Saudi Arabia: protests spread to the center of the country

Protests in the most totalitarian state on Earth, Saudi Arabia, began in 2011 and have continued intermittently through 2012 in the oil-rich Eastern Province, closely related to Bahrain. But now the protests (other than some instances of women fighting for their most basic rights) have extended to the interior of the country. 

Hundreds of Arab denizens took to the streets of Buraidah and other cities of Al Qassim province in demand of democracy and freedom for political prisoners, notably Hila al-Qasir, sentenced to 15 years of prison for her pro-democracy activism. 

The demands of the protesters are in essence: democratic reforms, freedom of speech, political amnesty and stopping the intervention in third countries like Bahrain.

Source[es]: HispanTV (via Webguerrillero).

Syria & Kurdistan: three Kurds burnt alive by the Islamists, CIA appoints Syria commander

The brutal fascist inhuman and psychopathic nature of the NATO-supported Islamist militias in Syria becomes even more evident with cases like these: three Kurdish citizens were burned alive in an execution like those of Torquemada.

Video from Russia Today[es]:

Earlier this year the same fascist militia massacred 450 Kurds near Tal Abyad. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


CIA names General Wright as commander for Syria

An anonymous source of the FARS news agency reported that the CIA has General John Wright, 57, with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, has been appointed as "commander of operations and cooperation" for the Syrian civil war.

The general already has an office in Amman, Jordan, and keeps tight contacts with the dictators of Saudi Arabia. After a meeting with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the USA provided stinger missiles to the Islamist rebels. The CIA has a training camp in Jordan where some 3000 Syrian rebels are being trained. They plan to occupy Deraa, the border town where the civil war began after infiltration of agitators and armed groups from Jordan.

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Tunisia: popular uprising escalates, Army moves to isolate Islamist-controlled Parliament

The Tunisian Army has intervened to "protect" the Parliament, sealing Bardo Plaza with barbed wire. 

Protesters remain undeterred and have regrouped in nearby areas of the capital. They demand the resignation of the Islamist government, which they held responsible of the recent murders of Left-wing politicians. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


Update: uh-oh, if you dig enough, Al-Jazeera has some information also... just that very much hidden from the first page (unlike the Islamist-biased info on Egypt, which is always lead story no matter what).

For example they admit that the demonstrators amount to tens of thousands, what, considering the strong Islamist bias of the Qatari site, probably means hundreds of thousands...  saying also that the government is about to fall, as a minor partner, Ettakatol, is threatening to withdraw from the coalition.

A video of some of the protests can be seen here.

Syria: more and more rebels accept amnesty, government clearly winning now - Kurdish viewpoint also

Hundreds of former rebels have already accepted the amnesty offered by the Damascus regime, disillusioned by the reality of Islamist-controlled areas, where the most brutal terror reigns. 

The Baath government seems to be winning the civil war and has offered amnesty and dialogue to those rebels who surrender. The process of negotiation in the front lines is however intrinsically difficult. 

Relatives of good-faith rebels are very concerned because they feel that, if they fail to surrender they will probably lose their lives in the last battles of a war that now seems clearly won by Damascus. 

What remains to be seen is if the Damascus government can also win peace in the new context of widespread demand for human rights and democracy. Something they already have: Syria has a much more advanced social state than any other neighbor. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es], citing the Daily Telegraph.


Kurds on Syrian war: a controlled chaos

In an interview published this weekend in Gara[es], Western Kurdish leaders Asia Abdullah and Salih Muslim (pictured), gave their opinion on the Syrian conflict from the Kurdish viewpoint.

They emphasize that the situation of the Kurdish people in the Syrian state is peculiar and that they have no friends in either side. Therefore they favored a peaceful revolution and took a self-defense stand, which is a de facto self-rule at the moment. However they argue that they have no declared nor plan to declare an autonomous region but just attend the daily needs of their people in the midst of this chaos and international blockade.

They confirm that Assad is winning the war because the opposition is dramatically fragmented and weak, being dependent in the military aspect on the Islamists, who have the weapons and manpower.

They believe that the Syrian conflict is a controlled chaos promoted by the West (France, USA) in order to weaken the region even further. Other actors like Turkey and Iran have their own interests (Islamists and Government respectively).

They feel very skeptic about the possibility of a peace agreement in North Kurdistan (under Turkish administration) because, much as happens in the Basque Country, the rebel side has taken all steps while the imperialist authorities remain anchored in immobility. They say: the ball is now in the Ankara's court and they must choose whether to belong to the Middle East or vanish.

More in general, they propose and promote Radical Democracy as actual solution for the ethnic and other conflicts in the whole region. This Radical Democracy would essentially decentralize power so each community can take their own decisions. It is, they say, a more developed version of the concept of Democracy in total harmony with the recen social movements of Europe.

Bangladesh: fascist war criminal sentenced to death

Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 59, former pro-Pakistani militia commander and currently Assistant Secretary-General of the reactionary fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party, sponsored by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, the USA, etc., was sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court today.

The notorious war criminal turned fundamentalist politician was found guilty of leading his troops to murder at least 183 civilians in his home district of Sherpur. He had formed the death squad Al Badr in collaboration with the Pakistani army with the goals of murdering civilians and raping women. 

Kamaruzzaman was 19 at the time of the crimes but like the kapos of the Nazi death camps his crimes against Humankind can never prescribe.

Sadly enough it is not common that a criminal of this kind has to face justice and, even in Bangladesh, this trial has taken way too long to happen: forty years!

This is just the tip of the iceberg, Jamaat murdered some three million civilians and raped some 200,000 women, in the Bangladeshi Liberation War, working for the neocolonial Pakistani oppressor. Some days ago another notorious war criminal of the same fascist organization, Abdul Quader Mollah, was sentenced to life in prison, a punishment deemed too benevolent by many, considering his crimes (murder of 345 civilians, including a poet, and raping an 11 years old girl).