'We escaped death': Syrian refugees struggle with cold, hunger and uncertainty - World News

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Syrian refugees Qassem and Aminaa with baby Mariam.

By Yuka Tachibana, Producer, NBC News

 

HAMED ONE RECEPTION CENTER, Jordan -- Just after dark on a bitterly cold January night, a truck full of refugees arrived at a reception center on the border with Syria. Carrying their belongings in suitcases and plastic bags, about 50 men, women and children climbed out of a Jordanian military vehicle.
A little girl cried while clinging to an older sister. A frail elderly man had to be helped off the truck. One teenage boy arrived without a coat and wearing plastic sandals on his bare feet.

Each new arrival was registered by the Jordanian military, given a blanket, orange juice and a bottle of water. A clinic nearby treated the sick. More than 152 people crossed at this border point on Sunday, and more than 500 refugees entered the country in just 12 hours, the Jordanian army said.

FULL ARTICLE HERE: 'We escaped death': Syrian refugees struggle with cold, hunger and uncertainty - World News

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Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition | Human Rights Watch

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  An unexploded DPICM submunition delivered by a 122mm rocket that was used in an attack near the village of Banin in Jabal Al Zaweya in December 2012.© 2012 Nicole Tung

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  The 122mm cluster munition rockets used in Syria bear the markings of the Egyptian state-owned Arab Organization for Industrialization and an Egyptian company called Sakr Factory for Development Industries. © 2012 Nicole Tung

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Syria is escalating and expanding its use of cluster munitions, despite international condemnation of its embrace of this banned weapon. It is now resorting to a notoriously indiscriminate type of cluster munition that gravely threatens civilian populations.

 Steve Goose, arms division director 

(Washington, DC) – Syrian forces are using notoriously indiscriminate rockets that contain explosive submunitions. Evidence indicates that Syrian forces used BM-21 Grad multi-barrel rocket launchers to deliver cluster munitions in attacks near the city of Idlib in December 2012 and in Latamneh, a town northwest of Hama, on January 3, 2013.

These are the first known instances of Syrian use of ground-based cluster munitions. No information is available on how or when Syria acquired these cluster munitions, which were made in Egypt. Human Rights Watch and others have previously reported use of air-dropped cluster bombs. The Syrian government should immediately cease all use of cluster munitions, which have been comprehensively banned by 111 nations through an international treaty.

“Syria is escalating and expanding its use of cluster munitions, despite international condemnation of its embrace of this banned weapon,” said Steve Goose, director of the Arms division at Human Rights Watch. “It is now resorting to a notoriously indiscriminate type of cluster munition that gravely threatens civilian populations.”
Based on interviews with witnesses, analysis of approximately a dozen videos posted online by local activists, and photographs taken by an international journalist, Human Rights Watch has concluded that since at least early December Syrian forces have used BM-21 Grad multi-barrel rocket launchers to deliver 122mm cluster munition rockets containing submunitions of the DPICM-type (dual purpose improved conventional munition).

The attack using these cluster munitions on January 3 on Latamneh killed one civilian man and wounded 15 people, including women and children, while another civilian man was killed by an unexploded submunition left from the attack. Another man, a fighter for the armed opposition group the Free Syrian Army, was killed on December 5 after handling an unexploded submunition left from an attack two days earlier on the village of Banin in Jabal al-Zaweya.

FOR THE FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE:: Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition | Human Rights Watch

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BBC News - Mali and France 'push back Islamists'

President Hollande: "This operation will last as long as necessary"

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Mali: Divided nation

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Government forces in Mali say they have regained territory from Islamist militants following air strikes by the French military.

Malian officials said they had taken back the strategic central town of Konna, which rebels had secured just a day earlier as they pushed south. 

The news came hours after France announced it had begun military operations in support of Mali's army.

FULL ARTICLE HERE: BBC News - Mali and France 'push back Islamists'

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 The policies of the socialist left, under the banners of "social justice," "equality," and "compassion," have inflicted catastrophe in many forms—poverty, moral decline, criminality, violence, illness, and death—upon countless millions of people. The programs and policies that led to these disastrous outcomes were often promoted by "progressives" as expressions of high-minded "liberal" idealism that promised to improve the living conditions not only of people in great need, but also of those in the middle class.

Leftists view their own prescriptions for all manner of social ills—e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia, intolerance, greed, alienation—as solutions uniquely rooted in enlightenment and decency. (By contrast, they portray conservative social policy as the outgrowth of selfishness, greed and mean-spiritedness.) But the solutions they have advanced in the form of social and ideological crusades, often prosecuted with messianic zeal, have actually brought immense, needless suffering to the very same "victims" in whose names they have acted.

FOR THE WEBPAGE AND LINKS, CLICK HERE: The Left's War on Minorities, the Poor and Working Americans - Discover the Networks

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