Syria - Any thoughts?

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 12:52

What are peoples thoughts on the current events in Syria?



Have any refugees turned up in Cyprus?

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 13:23

Re: Msg1,



Is this place east or west of Girne?

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 13:29

msge 2



When I see the pictures on tv I cant help but see how close Syria is to Cyprus. I just wondered if the Syria/Cyprus ferry was full of Syrians who have decided to call it a day. (If indeed it is still running)

Clarissa2


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Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 13:48

Re: Msg 3,

I read about a special EU ( I know, I shouldn't mention IT ) consultation on the refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Syria in particular, where RoC and Italy said that they were swamped; the row ensued. TRNC wasn't mentioned for obvious reasons.

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 13:58

msge 4



You said that word Clarissa. Now I suggest you go and wash your mouth out with soap



Refugees from the Middle east is a growing problem. Italy decided to use the schengen agreement to its advantage by issuing Tunisians with visas and pointing them in the direction of Paris.

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 14:25

Message 5. And on reaching Paris they were told about all the great benifits to be had in the UK.



Turkey have been receiving a lot of refugees from Syria and have been accepting them according to reports in the world press.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 15:24

Re : Msg 5,



Hence the decision to suspend temporarily the Schengen.

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 18:23

msge 7



Thats another policy they need to rethink. Not really going according to plan is it?

Scoty


Joined: 23/05/2010
Posts: 846

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 18:28

msg 1 -

none

don't know

is that what you were looking for?

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 18:30

Let them get on with it or blow them all to smithereens.

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 18:30

At what point does the United Nations decide Syria looks a bit like the situation in Libya?



1,300 civilians have now been killed - Human rights group estimate

10,000 people arrested - Human rights group estimate

500 security personnel dead - government figure





I guess all these figures are dubious

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 19:55

What are there so many problems in the East?

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 20:06

Bill

Because they are Eastern!



Richard

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 20:18

once our overlords have put the libya thing to bed , i am sure they will quickly move on to syria , give them a chance , as they say rome wasnt built in a day .

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
11/06/2011 23:22

Yeah right you are rowlo, they have done such a fantastic job in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya that they will then move on to Syria. Where do you suggest next Iran?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ur9RyjYpiI



Enjoy.

DesiH


Joined: 24/03/2009
Posts: 152

Message Posted:
12/06/2011 00:29

Thank you for that YFred. Cant wait till Syria gets sorted too. Then WE will surely start on Saudi, Bahrain, Algiers, Yemen, Morocco et al.

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
12/06/2011 04:27

world leaders are scared witless of any post-baathist syria:

think giant lebanese civil war with chemical and bio weapons



meanwhile, libya seems to not want to be put to bed, in spite

of being read a story and having drunk a cup of cocoa



"moving on" to syria would not attract universal international

support even of the most grudging variety and militarily a

fractured and dangerous failed syria would be a nightmare



there may be a role for un/eu forces when the dust settles,

if it ever does

and to help the population rebuild, if any of them survive

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
12/06/2011 11:02

We are still a long way from the Hama massacre in 1980 where 20,000 people were estimated to have died in Syria.



I don't recall any foreign intervention in this internal dispute. Its interesting how things have changed.