(Zaman Al Wasl)- There are not clear indicators about what have been nominated as the clauses of the new agreement in al-Waer neighborhood, referred to officially as New Homs. The impression among many, regime opposition and supporters alike, is that it is a repetition of what happened in old Homs with the evacuation of the city’s rebels from the city.
At that time, the rebels left after two years of siege in green buses that left a bad impression and pessimistic memory among the Syrian revolutionary crowd, not for losing a dear part of the revolutionary capital only, but also because the green convoys had previously moved many of the city’s and Syria’s youths to the hell of al-Assad intelligence detentions when the buses were used to attack the peaceful demonstrations.
The buses would arrive loaded with intelligence agents, popular committee members, and later regime thugs, fully armed to oppress the demonstrations and disperse the demonstration participants between killed, detained, injured, and refugee.
Buses imported from the friendly government of China a few years before the revolution and promoted by the official newspapers as the magical solution for major Syrian cities’ chronic transportation problems, before the regime changed their routes to moving Syrians to known and secret detention centers that became congested with over a quarter of a million detainees according to international and local rights organizations.
The issue of those very same detainees has always been an obstacle to achieving the agreement from the regime’s side and by extension delaying the approach of the green bus which has become an indicator of national reconciliation.
Amid mixed news reports from within the besieged neighborhood, the arrival of the great Chinese bus, as Syrians described it when the bus was imported from the country whose merchandise and products are associated with cheating, poor quality performance, and bad reputation, its coming is not far for the traveler to arrive at a new station along the road of national reconciliations during the period of Eid al-Adha (after it or before it), according to statements made by one of the neighborhood’s negotiation committee’s members to Zaman al-Wasl recently, confirming the return of the agreement signed by the old committee with the regime in December 2015 despite the regime’s withdrawal from the commitment of releasing over 7300 detainees from residents from Homs counted as revolutionaries, and the regime reduced it to between 140-200 detainees.
As part of the same context, on Sunday, the Russian ministry of defense published a report revealing that, “in the last 24 hours, accord agreements were signed with representatives of 9 local residential groups, with 5 agreements in Homs province, 4 in Latakia, and the number of groups that joined the reconciliation process has risen to 548.”
It is expected that al-Waer’s agreement is one of these 5 agreements spoken of by the Russian ministry of Defense after news of the committee members’ recent visit to Khmeimim.
The Russian ministry of defense also said in its report, “the number of reconciliation agreements that have been signed in Syria have reached 548 agreements, and work is ongoing to achieve more of them according to a periodical report issued by the Russian Center for Reconciliation which takes the Khmeimim (Latakia countryside) as a headquarters.”
Iran's role and Eid Truce
In contrast to the old Homs and the first negotiations around al-Waer neighborhood, the Iranian role is declining in seeking to reach a new agreement.
Fragmented information from inside the neighborhood confirms that sectarian militias supported by Iran have not only announced their refusal of a truce agreement in al-Waer but seek to cause it to fail in many ways.
Abu Harith one of the neighborhood residents said the Iranian sectarian militias have caused the failure of the agreement by breaching it many times, and they did not stop targeting the neighborhood with rockets from its location in the villages of al-Mazraa and al-Raqqah and some of the checkpoints under their control, and they started to shot rockets on areas under regime control in pro-regime neighborhoods to accuse al-Waer’s rebels, and illicit a response to increase the regime’s supporters’ hatred towards the neighborhood’s residents.
He then mentioned many incidents when those militias placed obstacles for the aid convoys heading to the neighborhood. The United Nations office is located on the road away from al-Mazraa round about close to the militias al-Rida Brigade headquarters, and they take the road al-Shoun al-Faniyet that is under regime control during the last period.
Informed local sources inside the neighborhood reiterated the militia’s refusal of the agreements epitomized by their greed to invade the neighborhood, occupy it, and empty it of its residents according to the plan of demographic change believed to have been executed in villages and towns in the countryside of Homs and Damascus.
The source reveals that the regime only aims at getting militants out of the neighborhood and not residents, according to regime representatives in an approach that contradicts the Iranian greed, and with Russian mediation as it appeared in the role of Khmeimim airport in the deal.
Except that is transferred the paranoia of many of the neighborhood residents, the most important being that the regime representatives’ talk is a trap to reach a quick agreement which will be retracted when it comes time to execute it, as it has done before, in addition to fears of undisciplined sectarian militias given their obedience to orders from Tehran and not the regime.
The source reported from a member of the reconciliation committee that the truce that began with a ceasefire for 48 hours will be extended from the same duration of time before it will be extended until after the Eid as the committee member reported from a high ranking intelligence officer who described it as a good will gesture. For al-Waer to remain the last Syrian resistance strongholds in the city of Homs, its eyes red until now, in a description that speaks to what pro-regime supporters call every area the regime forces enter, which is not inscribed in the text of the leaked agreement.
At that time, the rebels left after two years of siege in green buses that left a bad impression and pessimistic memory among the Syrian revolutionary crowd, not for losing a dear part of the revolutionary capital only, but also because the green convoys had previously moved many of the city’s and Syria’s youths to the hell of al-Assad intelligence detentions when the buses were used to attack the peaceful demonstrations.
The buses would arrive loaded with intelligence agents, popular committee members, and later regime thugs, fully armed to oppress the demonstrations and disperse the demonstration participants between killed, detained, injured, and refugee.
Buses imported from the friendly government of China a few years before the revolution and promoted by the official newspapers as the magical solution for major Syrian cities’ chronic transportation problems, before the regime changed their routes to moving Syrians to known and secret detention centers that became congested with over a quarter of a million detainees according to international and local rights organizations.
The issue of those very same detainees has always been an obstacle to achieving the agreement from the regime’s side and by extension delaying the approach of the green bus which has become an indicator of national reconciliation.
Amid mixed news reports from within the besieged neighborhood, the arrival of the great Chinese bus, as Syrians described it when the bus was imported from the country whose merchandise and products are associated with cheating, poor quality performance, and bad reputation, its coming is not far for the traveler to arrive at a new station along the road of national reconciliations during the period of Eid al-Adha (after it or before it), according to statements made by one of the neighborhood’s negotiation committee’s members to Zaman al-Wasl recently, confirming the return of the agreement signed by the old committee with the regime in December 2015 despite the regime’s withdrawal from the commitment of releasing over 7300 detainees from residents from Homs counted as revolutionaries, and the regime reduced it to between 140-200 detainees.
As part of the same context, on Sunday, the Russian ministry of defense published a report revealing that, “in the last 24 hours, accord agreements were signed with representatives of 9 local residential groups, with 5 agreements in Homs province, 4 in Latakia, and the number of groups that joined the reconciliation process has risen to 548.”
It is expected that al-Waer’s agreement is one of these 5 agreements spoken of by the Russian ministry of Defense after news of the committee members’ recent visit to Khmeimim.
The Russian ministry of defense also said in its report, “the number of reconciliation agreements that have been signed in Syria have reached 548 agreements, and work is ongoing to achieve more of them according to a periodical report issued by the Russian Center for Reconciliation which takes the Khmeimim (Latakia countryside) as a headquarters.”
Iran's role and Eid Truce
In contrast to the old Homs and the first negotiations around al-Waer neighborhood, the Iranian role is declining in seeking to reach a new agreement.
Fragmented information from inside the neighborhood confirms that sectarian militias supported by Iran have not only announced their refusal of a truce agreement in al-Waer but seek to cause it to fail in many ways.
Abu Harith one of the neighborhood residents said the Iranian sectarian militias have caused the failure of the agreement by breaching it many times, and they did not stop targeting the neighborhood with rockets from its location in the villages of al-Mazraa and al-Raqqah and some of the checkpoints under their control, and they started to shot rockets on areas under regime control in pro-regime neighborhoods to accuse al-Waer’s rebels, and illicit a response to increase the regime’s supporters’ hatred towards the neighborhood’s residents.
He then mentioned many incidents when those militias placed obstacles for the aid convoys heading to the neighborhood. The United Nations office is located on the road away from al-Mazraa round about close to the militias al-Rida Brigade headquarters, and they take the road al-Shoun al-Faniyet that is under regime control during the last period.
Informed local sources inside the neighborhood reiterated the militia’s refusal of the agreements epitomized by their greed to invade the neighborhood, occupy it, and empty it of its residents according to the plan of demographic change believed to have been executed in villages and towns in the countryside of Homs and Damascus.
The source reveals that the regime only aims at getting militants out of the neighborhood and not residents, according to regime representatives in an approach that contradicts the Iranian greed, and with Russian mediation as it appeared in the role of Khmeimim airport in the deal.
Except that is transferred the paranoia of many of the neighborhood residents, the most important being that the regime representatives’ talk is a trap to reach a quick agreement which will be retracted when it comes time to execute it, as it has done before, in addition to fears of undisciplined sectarian militias given their obedience to orders from Tehran and not the regime.
The source reported from a member of the reconciliation committee that the truce that began with a ceasefire for 48 hours will be extended from the same duration of time before it will be extended until after the Eid as the committee member reported from a high ranking intelligence officer who described it as a good will gesture. For al-Waer to remain the last Syrian resistance strongholds in the city of Homs, its eyes red until now, in a description that speaks to what pro-regime supporters call every area the regime forces enter, which is not inscribed in the text of the leaked agreement.
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