“The #DoumaChemicalAttack was #ThisDayInHistory in 2018. A two-year #OPCW investigation concluded that the #Baathist régime of #Syria dropped two cylinders of #ChlorineGas on #Douma as part of the Eastern Ghouta offensive in the #SyrianCivilWar, killing ~50 people & injuring ~100.”
The #DoumaChemicalAttack was #ThisDayInHistory in 2018. A two-year #OPCW investigation concluded that the #Baathist régime of #Syria dropped two cylinders of #ChlorineGas on #Douma as part of the Eastern Ghouta offensive in the #SyrianCivilWar, killing ~50 people & injuring ~100.
The #YarmoukMassacre was carried out by allies of the #Baathist régime of Syria on #ThisDayInHistory in 2014. Syrian & Palestinian civilians harmed by the #SyrianCivilWar were queueing for #UNRWA food aid when anti-tank rockets were fired into the crowd, killing 7 & wounding 10.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, #BasharAlAssad fled as #Damascus fell to #HTS, a Turkish-backed Islamist militia. The #Baathist régime, there since 1963, should have been toppled decades earlier, given its corruption & incompetence, but it's hard to say the new régime looks better.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1988, the Iraqi state and #ChemicalAli used #MustardGas to kill 5,000 #Kurds in #Halabja as a part of the #AlAnfal campaign of #KurdishGenocide. Over 100,000 were killed and 80% of the settlements in #IraqiKurdistan were destroyed by the #Baathist régime.
'How do you distill the meaning of what happened in the last 10 days, as #Syria’s rebels staged the greatest insurgent comeback in history to depose 60 years of #Baathist rule?'
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The new Syrian government will reportedly deliver a radio and television address soon. Assad is done. Russia lost.
#freesyria #russiaisaterroriststate #russiaiscollapsing #assad #damascus #baathist #HTS
