Monday, December 19 - Day of Action against the massacres in Syria

Aleppo’s horror is under everybody’s eyes. Another, maybe the greatest, humanitarian tragedy since the beginning of the Syrian conflict is taking place right now, while the international community isn’t reacting and thousands of people are trapped in that hell. 
The definitive conquer of the East part of the city, an important passage to the West and a commercial and cultural melting pot before the war, made by Assad and his allies (lead by Russia and Iran) has been preceded by months of violence and terror. 
The civil population has been the one to endure the consequences; women, men and innocent children who are paying a too high price in an apparently never ending conflict. 
Over half a million deaths happened since 2011 and half of the population was forced to leave the country receiving, most of the times, an indecent welcoming in Europe. 
A bloodshed similar to the one we saw, with reversed roles, during the siege of the West part of the town, and took place since July 2012, with the Sunni militia against the governmental forces. In that occasion too we witnessed the same horrific scenes and the same indifference by the international community . 
The Syrian mosaic, the complexity of a war too often reduced, in a simplistic way, to a “everyone against everyone” situation, has been the alibi to mask the strategic interests and the policies of power in an area where the instability is functional to those who become richer with the war industry and the savage hoarding of resources. 
There are diverse aspects of a single big war that is taking place in the Syrian territory: the atrocities committed by Daesh while moving forward to Syria and Iraq and while trying to reconquer the territories previously lost, the fundamentalism that denies any freedom, implemented by Al Nusra (now called Jahbat Fateh Al Sham) and by other Jihadist forces, Assad’s military and political arrogance, the many ambiguities of US and Turkey. These facets of the same problem can be summarized with two words: global war.
A permanent war fought in the first place by transnational corporations and financial groups for the expropriation of resources, which is happening in other areas in the Middle East but without media coverage. Nonetheless this war has the same lethality and it involves Italy, as well as other countries, in the supply of weapons to countries that are directly financing the Wahabit fundamentalism, such as Saudi Arabia, which has a key role in the Yemeni conflict. 
On the Syrian front we have chosen whom to support and on which side to be a long time ago: the Kurds of YPG, who have been resisting for a long time against the invasion of Daesh and have been key actors in the retaking of many territories in the North of the country, together with the Coalition of Democratic Syrian Forces (SDF). 
The Kurdish positions have been attacked also by the pro-government forces and by Erdogan’s Turkey, who saw in their grass-roots consensus and expasion a direct threat to the internal stability of its country. 
Kurds have to fight the isolation because the revolution they made in Rojava scares all the forces involved in the global war, because it represents a real alternative to this model, which is based on war and its related interests. 
It is under the inspiration of this alternative that we need to take the streets in order to demand the interruption of the horror in Aleppo and the immediate creation of humanitarian channels to let the population the opportunity to get shelter in safe places. It is necessary in this moment that social movements, associations and civil society mobilize themselves against this slaughter and they occupy the public space in order to send a clear message in all our cities: let’s stop the war in Syria, the bombings and massacres that s are still perpetrated, the supply of weapons to the actors that are fighting it. Let’s demand to the EU to take responsibility on another tragedy that is always connected to war: the refugees tragedy. For this reason it is crucial to put into discussion the EU Turkey agreement, that allows Turkey to manage the migrant flow from Asia to Europe. 
It is not the time to remain silent and quiet. Let’s take the streets. 

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