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  • Eye On Syria: Concern Mounts As Another Armenian Dies In Aleppo

    EYE ON SYRIA: CONCERN MOUNTS AS ANOTHER ARMENIAN DIES IN ALEPPO

    News | 24.07.13 | 16:32

    Photo: Screenshot from youtube.com

    By Gohar Abrahamyan
    ArmeniaNow reporter

    In the Near East, where clashes between rebels and the state army
    continue inflicting heavy human casualties, two passenger buses from
    Aleppo to Beirut suffered from an armed assault, leaving one Armenian
    dead, 16 more injured.

    Press Service of the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports,
    with reference to the Armenian Embassy in Damascus, that the victim
    was a mother of two, 40-year-old Tamar Varvaryan-Srunyan (her husband
    and two children are among the injured passengers). Two of the injured
    Armenians are in life-threatening condition.

    Zhirair Reissian, press secretary of Aleppo~Rs Berio Armenian Diocese,
    told ArmeniaNow that some got checked out after receiving first aid,
    others are under doctors~R supervision.

    ~SNo changes in the city, the armed clashes continue, with gunshots
    and explosions and unceasing human casualties,~T says Reissian, adding
    that leaving Aleppo is challenging, too, that is why few people would
    take the risk.

    The hostilities of the past two years in Syria, with its 80,000-member
    Armenian community, have taken more than a 100,000 lives, 50 among
    them Armenian.

    Chief of Staff at the Diaspora Ministry Firdus Zakaryan, also
    leading the task force group managing Syrian-Armenians~R issues,
    told ArmeniaNow there are currently around 9,000 Syrian-Armenians
    in Armenia at the moment. Their inflow has stopped because of the
    blocked air and land communications.

    Syria remains to be gravely challenged with unrest. There has been
    news recently that the authorities are using chemical weapon against
    the opposition. Days ago General Martin Dempsey, US Chairman of the
    Joint Chiefs of Staff, reporting to the US Congress, outlined five
    options for U.S. military action in the Syrian conflict, according
    to which the United States can provide ~Sa train, advise and assist
    mission~T, which could raise opposition fighters~R capabilities but
    carries a risk that extremists could gain access to U.S. weapons;
    limited stand-off strikes, establishing a no-fly zone or buffer zones.

    The last, most complex option Dempsey outlined ~W controlling chemical
    weapons ~W would require a no-fly zone, air and missile strikes and
    thousands of troops on the ground.

    Giro Manoyan, leading the Armenian Revolutionary Federation
    Dashnaktsutyun~Rs Armenian Cause office in Yerevan, told ArmeniaNow
    that only Turkey and Qatar support the external extremist forces in
    Syria, others are trying to localize the issue one way or another
    and deter the forces that have come from the outside, however the
    Syrian people pay the price for all of it, and so are the Armenians
    living there.

    ~SArmenia has to keep in touch as much as possible with all the key
    forces, so that should the need arise it could turn to one of them
    for the protection of Armenia~Rs interests ~V in this case the safety
    of the Armenian community of Syria, which I believe is more or less
    being done,~T says Manoyan.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy0gYb4yzuM

    http://armenianow.com/news/47987/war_syria_armenians_passenger_bus

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