Massacre in Tremseh, Syria

Yesterday say the worst massacre of the Syrian Troubles. The village of Tremseh was attacked by government troops, first by helicopters and other heavy weapons. Afterwards the militia went in and massacred up to 250 people, making it the worst massacre of the whole Syrian crisis, more than double the amount that died in Houla.

The government has claimed that they did not target civilians and that all those who died were rebel fighters. And although it is true that a sizeable proportion of the dead appear to be men of fighting age, unverified footage shows the corpse of a baby. Unless Syrian society works different to my own, babies don’t tend to be rebel fighters. If you needed any more proof that that the Assad regime is full of liars, well I have more information to convince you. Today state controlled television in Syria originally claimed that “armed gangs” had been responsible for the killing of innocent civilians in Tremseh. Later that evening they had changed their mind over what lie to tell; instead they decided that the massacre was committed by the government because it was completely legitimate.

You may realise that I am rather fed up with the Syrian fighting. I’m also fed up with the West’s non-action. I don’t give a damn what we have to do, we need to do something. Supply the rebels with arms, or get a UN peacekeeping mission. We cannot allow for thousands of innocent people to be killed whilst we play politics with Russia and China.