This is why the civilians in East Aleppo did not and cannot take advantage of the ceasation of hostilities to leave the besieged area of Aleppo through the SAA safe corridors ... they cant !
The US war hawks maintain that it is Assad’s forces and the Russians that are preventing them leaving the zone and that it is the same for the supply of humanitarian aid, they completely ignore the fact that these terrorists they support are nothing but a bunch of murdering thugs and are killing those that attempt to leave and are then mining the approaches and using snipers. The UN could not deliver aid because ........ they can’t get into the area either.
At least 17 killed, dozens injured in E. Aleppo as rebels disperse protesters with machine gun fire.At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the rebel blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Some 500 civilians took part in several protests in the rebel-occupied eastern part of Aleppo on Thursday, and at least 200 of them were trying to reach the Syrian government-controlled area at the time they were violently dispersed with live fire, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
“The militants dispersed the demonstration, shooting at the protesters from a heavy machine gun and then mined all the approaches to the checkpoint and placed snipers on the roofs of nearby houses,” Konashenkov said, as quoted by Sputnik news agency.
“Seventeen people died at the site, including two teenagers of 13 and 15 years of age, over 40 people were wounded,” he added.
Upon quelling one of the rallies, militants launched a hunt for the presumed organizers of the protests, the ministry spokesman said.
“Terrorists detained about 10 men, who they held to be ‘organizers’ of the riots, and drove them away in an unknown direction. They were shot dead the same evening,” Konashenkov said.
http://on.rt.com/7vjg
This informative article explains why it has taken so long for Assads forces and their allies to take a relatively small area of Aleppo from terrorists. It really boils down to common sense. As the article says .....’it
is easier to defend than it is to attack’ and explain why.
The much heralded attack on Mosul, by well trained and well equipped troops of the Iraqi army with massive US coalition air support, according to the BBC, has now ground to a stand-still . ............ and they are still in the suburbs. This article explains why! They are now in exactly the same combat situation as Assad and Russia have been for many months in Aleppo. There are no journalists, other than those embedded with the military, in Mosul, so very little news has managed to get out.
Why the Battle for Aleppo Is so long and so importantSo why has the battle continued for so long? There are several explanations.
The first is the city’s dense urban and industrial environment. Wars of the 20th century have shown that the most difficult type of warfare is urban. Every house or building can be transformed into a fortress with firing ports for heavy weapons.
Cellars are already equipped with shelter from the bombs and shells. They can also be used as a place for rest and recreation. In addition, the cellar is an ideal storage of weapons, ammunition, food and fuel. Even destroyed houses serve as cover for movement of troops and equipment.
Minarets, bell towers, smokestacks are ideal for snipers and spotters for artillery and aviation. Underground communications are actively used by all parties to hide their forces and for their sudden appearance behind the front lines. Dense urban and industrial development creates difficulties in the destruction of buildings and structures in that it requires large stocks of ammunition and a large number of artillery pieces, or car bombs in order to launch surprise attacks. Armored vehicles are relegated to the role of fire support for the advancing infantry and cannot exploit their superior mobility or even protection.
https://southfront.org/why-the-battle-for-aleppo-is-so-long-and-so-important/
Something of interest maybe .... although off topic. Another nail in the coffin of investigative journalism?
If ‘
They’ have their way it will soon be difficult to gain any alternative information from the Internet. There will only be one version of the ‘
truth’ .... the approved version!
There is an attempt underway to introduce censorship to the internet ..... but it is who will decide what you can read and what you can’t, that is worrying. YOU will no longer have the right to decide, it will be done for you.
Many independent news sites rely on an advertising App. which Google and FaceBook will decide which sites will be able to use the facility. Does not affect MSM as they are financed by big corporations or Governments.
What to Do About ‘Fake News’A pushback is coming to the Internet’s success in giving the world access to diverse opinions and dissenting information. Politicians, mainstream media and technology giants are taking aim at what they call “fake news,” reports Robert Parry.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, a hot new issue – raised by President Obama in an international setting on Thursday and touted on The New York Times’ front page on Friday – is the problem of “fake news” being disseminated on the Internet.
Major Internet companies, such as Google and Facebook, are being urged to censor such articles and to punish alleged violators. Also, teams of supposedly “responsible” news providers and technology giants are being assembled to police this alleged problem and decide what is true and what is not.
But therein lies the more serious problem: who gets to decide what is real and what is not real? And – in an age when all sides propagate propaganda – when does conformity in support of a mainstream “truth” become censorship of reasonable scepticism?
As a journalist for more than four decades, I take seriously the profession’s responsibility to verify information as much as possible before publishing it – and as editor of Consortiumnews.com, I insist that our writers (and to the extent possible, outside commenters) back up what they say.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45879.htm
