­Syrian opposition violence - shocking video

Published time: October 05, 2011 17:00
Edited time: October 05, 2011 21:03
Syrian opposition protests are not always non-violent
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Torture, booby-trapped cars, machine-guns shooting in the air – RT has come into the possession of a video that deals with episodes of the day-to-day life of members of the Syrian opposition.

It shows members of the opposition wielding various weaponry – from sickles to pump-action shotguns – and using it, as well as some results of their actions.

Parts of it contain too much violence to be reproduced for an unprepared audience, the rest is available to demonstrate the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe Syria is dealing with.

­Still in search of a solution

­Meanwhile, Russia has declared its readiness to continue working on a new resolution on Syria and expects two delegations of the Syrian opposition to visit Moscow for negotiations in October.

While a massive group of Western countries last week proposed two resolutions, both of which included sanctions against current President Bashar al-Assad’s regime if violence against the opposition continues, Russia and China opposed any kind of sanctions.

Russia has condemned the Western resolutions as being designed to force a regime change in Syria, which, according to numerous statements made by Russia's Foreign Ministry, will only encourage violence.

Comments (16)

freedom fighter 08.02.2012 20:58

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Did anybody ask himself how it's possible that every so called "oposition" have so many weapons? In Libie the oposition had the newest america weapons to fight the government with. It's idiots to arm people which are not able to handle them correctly. The only thing happening everywhere there is civel wars to crack down a certain regime not popular in some other eyes. With enough people and peacefull good protest things can change. Now the result is killing from both sides. And I think any government has the right to fight armed people as it's against any law to fight with weapons because you don't like the government. Rea lly don't understand that all these opositions are so stupid to kill and fight...do you really think most of the people in those countries agree with this at all??? To speak about democracy!?!?!?  ;
Why we as the western goverments don't understand after all the killing done in Afganistan and Irak do not want to realize that such changes we would like can't be done this way and overnight. This needs time as people need to change.. 
Wa ke up all this is all about power not savety or helping democracy,  lol rt erased this comment... you say that the Libyans had new american weapons?what where they? because the the only weapons&nb sp;i  seen where ak47s and ussr era anti aircraft cannons mounted on the back of little pickup&n bsp;trucks

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Carant 08.02.2012 20:08

The weapons I saw seemed to be of Turkish manufacture. This is very interesting. I saw slide action top folding shotguns that are made in Turkey and exported-everywhere. It could have been a Remington, but that stock style is sold onlt to law-enforcement. I sense foreign meddling.

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freedom fighter 08.02.2012 19:47

ER wrote in #13
Did anybody ask himself how it's possible that every so called "oposition" have so many weapons? In Libie the oposition had the newest america weapons to fight the government with. It's idiots to arm people which are not able to handle them correctly. The only thing happening everywhere there is civel wars to crack down a certain regime not popular in some other eyes. With enough people and peacefull good protest things can change. Now the result is killing from both sides. And I think any government has the right to fight armed people as it's against any law to fight with weapons because you don't like the government. Rea lly don't understand that all these opositions are so stupid to kill and fight...do you really think most of the people in those countries agree with this at all??? To speak about democracy!?!?!?  ;
Why we as the western goverments don't understand after all the killing done in Afganistan and Irak do not want to realize that such changes we would like can't be done this way and overnight. This needs time as people need to change.. 
Wa ke up all this is all about power not savety or helping democracy, 
what are the new american weapons you speak of? the only weapons i seen was ak47s and ussr era anti aircraft cannons mounted on little pickup trucks 

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