EU diplomacy should help to overthrow the Assad regime, Syrian opposition leaders told the EP's foreign affairs committee on 19 June. They spoke out in favour of a peaceful solution and shared a vision of a free and democratic post-Assad Syria. We spoke with dissidents Haitham al-Maleh and Kamal al-Labwani about how change can be achieved in the country.
The fall of the regime
Mr al-Labwani said the fall of the regime would be a necessary first step towards change. "After that we can start negotiations, we can compose a national government and we can implement the Kofi Annan peace plan, but first we need Bashar al-Assad to leave." To achieve that, internal protests should be coupled with diplomatic pressure from the international community.
Mr al-Maleh, a democracy activist and former judge, said: "the regime is finished... a thing of the past." During the hearing, he drew a parallel with the sudden collapse of the Soviet regime: "The Syrian regime is rotten to the core and can fall as a house of cards."
The opposition
Some of the MEPs criticised the fragmented nature of the Syrian opposition during the committee meeting. Mr al-Maleh responded that there may be differences among opposition groups on some issues but this is only natural as "there is no opposition in the world that is unified". However, there is unity on the objective "to bring the regime down, to finish with it and build a new democratic country with separation of powers and equality of people before law".Mr al-Labwani agreed on the main objectives: "We need freedom, we need democracy, we need elections for a new president. We need to make sure dictatorship will not reappear in a new form."
Role of the international community
During the meeting, opposition leaders emphasised the importance of humanitarian aid to alleviate the population's plight. They also called for more pressure on Russia to lift its resistance to UN Security Council-backed sanctions against the regime. Meanwhile, things might be changing on the ground. "I heard that yesterday Russians started leaving Syria," said Mr al-Maleh, adding: "Something will happen very soon but it is important that the international community should react quickly."
[ED NOTES:HAITHEM AL-MALEH,NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR..OH YES THIS FRAUD,A SOROS PUPPET.. http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2012/06/brittains-subversive-tactics-on-regime.html
[ED NOTES:NOW,WHO IS ''Kamal al-Labwani'' ? http://www.freedomtocreate.com/content/view/78
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| Dr. Kamal al-Labwani Finalist of the 2008 Freedom to Create Imprisoned Artist Prize [ED NOTE;WHOS BEHIND THIS PRIZE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_Create_Prize Founder
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[ED NOTES:BACK TO DR KAMAL.. A Syrian court charged him with “communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria.” Labwani had visited the United States and Europe in the fall of 2005 where he had met with government officials, journalists and human rights organizations. on November 8, 2005 upon his return from a two-month trip to Europe and the United States. During his trip, he appeared on the pan-Arab Al-Mustaqilla and Al-Hurra television networks where he called on the Syrian government to respect fundamental freedoms and human rights.http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/05/10/syria-peaceful-activist-gets-12-years-hard-labor[ED NOTES;HE WAS IMPRISONED FOR CONSPIRING AND MEETING WITH US OFFICIALS WITHOUT ANY AUTHORITY TO DO SO,EXCEPT FOR WHAT HIS TRUE INTENTIONS WERE,TO CONSPIRE..AND APPEARING ON CIA/PENTAGON BACKED,SPONSORED/FUNDED AL-HURRA TV? HES A CONSPIRATOR ,PERIOD.Alhurra (or Al Hurra), is an Arabic-language American satellite TV channel based in Springfield, Virigina, financed by the U.S. government, and "aimed at viewers in the Middle East.In February 2005, Reuters reported on plans to broadcast Alhurra to Muslim communities in Europe, as part of the Bush administration's "new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism." Al Hurra-Al Who?: Haven't heard? We're Free, They're Not! US counters bad publicity of Iraqi prisoner abuse through al-Hurra TV Alhurra - the Zionist 'Arab' news network | empirestrikesblack |
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