Geneva 3 in the eyes of the people of Raqqa

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The world’s eyes to the Geneva Conference 3 being holds the first signs of a political solution and combines the opposition with the regime, after the regime was marginalizing the opposition and does not confess with their existence, saying that all his opponents are terrorist groups and armed, while he is sitting today forced in front of a delegation from the political opposition and forced to confess its existence.

The split among the Syrians was between supporters for the negotiations and any political solution that may result and between the likely military solution, but the largest percentage supported the negotiating team of opposition after seeing his firm and embraced the vision of millions of Syrians who want to end the suffering and the removal of the Assad regime, in the city of Raqqa summed up the real suffering as people are watching the negotiations closely While the world discusses the solution to negotiate with Assad, stationed in Raqqa another partner of him share his criminality and completes on the ground what Assad’s aviation could not do .

In turn, the team of “Raqqa is being slaughtered silence” conducted an opinion poll on opinions of civilians in the city of Raqqa of the Geneva conference, which included different age groups, but most of the opinions were looking for a solution to end the suffering in any way, said Rami 29 years old, a former teacher in the city , “the Geneva negotiations 3 are the first steps in the way of the solution in Syria and the disposal of the criminal Assad regime and the end of the Assad regime mean the end of ISIS also because the regime is the main nutrient for them,” while Sana college student said: that “Geneva 3 is a waste of time and will not differ much from Geneva 2 similar to the Geneva 1, and maybe it will be a prelude to the Geneva 4 who will decide to take place after a year which means the continuation of killings in the country. “

Saad 45 years old, talked about the possibility that Geneva is to be shifted in favor of the Syrian Revolution “Geneva 3, even if it will fail but it will be the first political victory that we might get, now is the regime is forced to negotiate who was considering them in yesterday’s germs and infiltrators, this shift is important for us we want to get rid of Assad so the terrorist groups will leave with him.”

In turn, Laila 38 years old, “she said I do not care to attend the Geneva I care what will result, all my care is to stop the killings and withdraw the terrorist militias supporting Assad and that Russia stop bombing civilians, I much whish that the world takes into account the suffering of millions of Syrians,” as Noor 32 years old said:, that “Geneva will succeed if he can enter food aid to Madaya and refugee camp of Yarmouk and Dir Elzor and Ghouta and give the freedom back to tens of thousands of detainees and stop the bombing, and if he could not achieve all of these rights that will push the world to the armed option which means more killing and destruction and perhaps the extremism of other groups.”

In spite of the poor performance of international envoy de Mistura and feeling the world with his bias to Assad regime and Russia, but the supreme body of the negotiations still can control the reins of things and stick to the demands of the people, despite of the international pressures that are exposed, today the body of the negotiations was able to get a lot of support and the support of activists who fired the Hachtag ‪#‎Committee‬of Supreme negotiations represent me.

DEATH BY PUTIN - Putin’s goal is destroying the city of Raqqa Not fighting ISIS

Once the Russian Kremlin announced its intention to intervene in the conflict in Syria to save the Assad regime under the pretext of fighting terrorism, until the Russian aircraft begun implementation of air sorties in the skies of Raqqa city and its countryside.

However, the repeated Russian’ statements of targeting ISIS were not consistent with the conduct of the raids carried out by the Russian aviation on the ground, as documented by local and international news agencies that most of the strikes were aimed mainly at the civilians, and through the shelling of residential neighbourhoods, popular markets and public facilities and infrastructure that serve the civilians directly.

This means that these raids were not aimed at the headquarters or any security military check points of ISIS known by everyone inside the city, but rarely, on the other hand they did not target the heavily armed ranks of ISIS which have long been scouring the public roads within and outside the city in the daylight, while the raids were aimed at the headquarters of ISIS ,they did not significantly affect the human structure of the military, where the losses of ISIS were virtually non-existent because most of the raids were aimed at former headquarters and absolutely empty of the ISIS members and its mechanisms as a result of the repeated targeting by the international airline alliance. 

What makes the Russian raids more advanced than the raids of the Syrian regime?

-The big destruction as a result of the enormous destructive power of its missiles, which caused dozen of massacres 

– Over flights and bombing day and night, which was something that the Aviation of the Syrian regime incapable of.

– Targeting all districts of the city, where neighbourhoods have been bombed that have never been exposed to any raids, not to mention, being purely civilian neighbourhoods.

– The systematic destruction of the infrastructure, and targeting sites that the Syrian regime did not dare to bomb such as bridges, water plants and silos and granaries.

What distinguishes the raids done by the Russian aircraft is another matter, which is targeting oil refineries which are called locally (oil Burners), which is a very small projects of refining crude oil in primitive ways, and they are owned mostly by the local population and have no direct link with ISIS

Also the raids targeted on the other hand, oil trucks that move between the towns of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa and owned by civilians also.

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And it seems like the Russian are trying so hard to convince the world that they are aiming at destroying all kinds of sources of ISIS through these raids that are targeting the Limited and primitive oil circulation which owned by the civilians, and that affects only the civilians.

However, the Russians know best about the economical and oil close relations between the regime and ISIS.

Not to mention targeting many of the Facilities and installations, which have been long ignored by the aviation of the regime previously, such as :

1. the trucks that move oil from where they find it inside areas controlled by ISIS to cities controlled by the regime

2. the wells that produce oil which by the way are still working until now under the supervision of ISIS 

3. the gas wells and the pipes that move it from ISIS areas to the regime’s, which the regime is depending on that for power generation

4. the trucks that move wheat and other sold grains by ISIS to middlemen working for the regime and deliver them to the its areas

On another hand, the Russian tried in Raqqa different kinds of weapons , such as, strategic missiles that were lunched from submarines stationed in the Caspian Sea, which landed in barren and free zones of population in the countryside of Raqqa, as they tried new types of Steric missiles, the residential neighborhoods were taking these kinds of experiments, and one of these experiments for instant , targeting the neighborhood of 23rd of Feb and the neighborhood of Saif Al Daola, where building were completely destroyed , and in some cases , streets were also completely destroyed , which is something happening for the first time in the city.

The civilians inside the city of Raqqa realize that the first goal of these raids is evacuating the city completely from the locals, and that through targeting residential neighborhoods to force the families to be displaced to other safer areas.

as everyone knows that the Russian air force and its aviation are more advanced and developed significantly than the Syrian counterpart, and the mistakes are rarely done by the Russians , when they target a residential neighborhood where there is no sign of ISIS on the range of 4oo meters is a clear clue that the target is the civilians and no one else, as we mentioned before that the main goal is evacuating the city of the locals so the city of Raqqa will be an empty and free stage for all types of aviation, beginning with the aviation of the international coalition who is an assumed friends and ending with the most Aggressive enemy , the Russians and the Assad regime.

In this context we can understand that the US Department of Defense remarks that the upcoming military operation on the city of Raqqa will be extremely difficult and complicated, pointing that what it seems that the city is still filled with lots of people , which is a reason that’s preventing its military operations, and since ISIS has emptied its spots and re-spread in the residential neighborhoods inside the city to make it worse and more complicated, it is okay for the Russian to handle “ The Dirty Job” which is killing the families of the city and bombing it without any mercy or evacuation

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The international coalition and the United States are aware of the Reconnaissance planes that are flying 24/7 in the skies of the city, However the Russian raids are focusing on the neighborhoods directly and ISIS to be affected is almost non-existent, Therefore they don’t care as long as they are achieving their main target which is evacuating the city of Raqqa from the civilians as many as possible , so their aviation can fly later on to destroy the city completely just like what they did before in the city of Ein Al Arab in north of Syria.

It’s ‘hell’ : How ISIS prevents people from fleeing its ‘caliphate’

ISIS has been tightening security along the borders of its “caliphate” to prevent people from fleeing, according to locals familiar with the terrorist group’s territory.

And ISIS — aka the Islamic State — seems to be keeping a closer watch over its populace.

People who live in Raqqa, Syria, the de-facto capital of the group’s territory, which it calls its “caliphate,” are now reportedly forced to register with the militant government.

There are restrictions on what people can take in and out of ISIS-held cities. And women aren’t allowed to go anywhere without a male relative escort.

“Leaving the city is now really hard,” Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, an activist with the group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, told Business Insider recently. “The problem is not going to Raqqa, it’s how to get out.”

Raqqa is the center of ISIS’s operations in the Middle East. Raqqawi — who uses a pseudonym — still travels back and forth from the city with the help of smugglers, he said. His family remains there.

Raqqawi said ISIS confiscates passports to make it more difficult to travel and forces people in the city to register so the militants can keep tabs on everyone.

“They are not allowing women to leave the city if they are not over 45 years old, and they are not allowing boys to leave the city if they are not over 19,” Raqqawi said. “After the statement that, ‘We want to register every boy in the city over 14,’ people are very afraid of the recruiting and want to leave.”

A Syrian man from Deir Ezzor, who goes by the name Fikram, told Business Insider that even some government areas “are surrounded by ISIS so civilians can’t get out except under certain conditions.”

“The area that is controlled by the terrorist organization has one road that civilians can go out from, and they open it in specific dates and times,” Fikram said. “Also, the civilians cannot move their personal items like home furnishings from the city.”

ISIS has also been enforcing rules around who can leave its territory. Ali Leili, a who runs the Syrian activist group D’Arezzo, described to Business Insider rules in place in Deir Ezzor, Syria.

“Sometimes people are allowed to leave to [go to] Damascus in order to [get] medical treatment, but not before they write a written undertaking that they will return to Deir Ezzor in the completion of treatment,” Leili told Business Insider.

Residents of other cities have talked of similar rules.

In Mosul, ISIS requires anyone leaving the city to provide the militants with the names of relatives who can vouch for their return, The New York Times reported in June. If the person does not return, their relatives may be arrested.

These restrictions have led to people relying on unconventional means to leave their homes.

“Hundreds of residents of Deir Ezzor and especially young people have left the province in secret smuggling routes to Turkey and then to Europe, [although] some of them are still in Turkey,” Leili said. “Everyone fled because of the hell experienced in the province because of the violations of [ISIS] and tightening the grip on the people there.”

The New York Times reported in a November story that a “cottage industry” of smugglers have cropped up to extricate people from ISIS territory. The newspaper reported that “until relatively recently, the routes into and out of Raqqa were mostly open.”

But now people have been relying on smugglers to supply them with false identification and accompany them across the Turkish border.

Others rely on ISIS militants themselves to help them escape ISIS territory. One woman who grew up in Raqqa and was roped into joining ISIS after the group took over the city asked a friend within the group to get her and her cousin out. The militant was able to get them through ISIS checkpoints without raising any suspicion.

Recently released ISIS propaganda suggests that the group is especially concerned about people fleeing and the damage that could do to the group’s brand.

In September, ISIS released a barrage of propaganda videos targeting refugees and telling them to come join the “caliphate” instead of fleeing to “xenophobic” Europe. The videos seek to reinforce the image of the caliphate as an Islamic utopia and capitalize on the dangers refugees face as they flee to European countries.

“They claim to create this Islamic utopia, and Muslims are fleeing in droves,” Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider in September. “A legitimate caliphate … is supposed to be able to provide services to its citizens.”