Today another 27 children’s bodies were found massacred in Syria. To stop this horror, we need to cut off the flow of arms to the regime. There is one way to do it, but it’s going to take all of us working together to make it happen.
Here’s how: India and the US are key clients to Syria’s main weapons supplier — the state-owned Russian company Rosoboronexport. If we can get the two countries to threaten to halt all deals unless the Russians stop supporting Syria’s murder machine, the arms dealers could be forced to stop their Syria sales. Both the US and India want to stop the violence in Syria, but diplomacy is failing. This is their best chance — let’s give them a massive mandate to act.
The US has already persuaded the company to stop light weapons sales to Syria. Now if we can build up the pressure on India and get both countries to speak out, Rosoboronexport could be forced to cut Syria’s arms supply completely. Sign the urgent petition to stop dealing death to Syria and tell everyone — our call will be delivered to both countries and Rosoboronexport at a massive arms fair in Paris in 3 days.
Bob, who is supplying the ‘Arab spring’ rebels who want a ‘democracy’?
Bob;I am going to try a really complex and difficult manoeuvre: To try and decipher/interpret one of Gary Elsby’s posts, dated 08/o6/2012@9:57a.m. Presumably Gary means Saudi Arabia and their feudal cohorts + America and the usual Nato suspects who are supplying their surrogates with weapons in this brutal, terrible conflict that is tearing Syria apart, or that is what I presume him to mean in what I take to be his rather facetious references to the Arab Spring and democracy. Lets be clear about one thing America and the Gulf States are determined to see that the Arab Spring perishes( not that Assad would give it any support, either) and the campaign in Libya was as much to thwart the Arab Spring as well as toppling Gadhafi and gaining western control of Libya’s vast oil reserves; and having won that campaign(but exacerbating Libya’s problems to a far greater extent that Gadhafi’s thugs ever did) they were determined to exploit Syria’s and Assads crisis with the upheavals in that country, with the ultimate aim of toppling Assad and removing Irans major, if only supporter in that region. However, Gary may make a complete liar of me with his reply to this post, that’s if he even bothers.
Sorry Bob; while I don’t dispute your sincerity on this post, and I certainly agree that India wants to see an end to this fratricidal campaign that may already be developing into a brutal civil war that will end with only one victor, which certainly wont be the ordinary Syrian people; America has no interest in seeing a situation that will see Koffi Anans(almost certainly doomed) peace attempts succeed, they are paying lip service in public and undermining it behind the scenes, the classic U.S performance in every international crisis since the war. Methinks Bob that in your sincere desire to see an end to the bloodshed in Syria(my desire as well) you are being too generous to America’s intentions. The obvious solution has to come through the United Nations, but the deadlock there because of Russia and China’s support for Syria in the security councl means that America will try to force an intervention outside the U.N. with all the implications for a conflagaration in the Middle Eastern region that that will imply.
I’m probably noting the real reasons why China and Russia refuse to sanction against Syria.
Can you blame them?