Thursday 27 September 2012

Syrian Rebel Chief Refuses to Hold Weapons against Syrian Brothers


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A Syrian rebel commander and a group of fighters told a conference for the opposition in Damascus had decided to abandon the fight against President Bashar al-Assad and return to the regular army.commander abandons opposition
"We have decided to return to the army and cooperate with the Ministry of National Reconciliation," said Captain Khaled Abdel Rahman al-Zamel, speaking at a conference organized by opposition groups.

He was accompanied by around 10 other militants, none of whom spoke out.
"The solution in Syria does not lie in the use of weapons or violence or explosions or the killing of innocents," said Zamel.

"We are all Syrians, we reject a revolution that starts with the shedding of blood. We refuse to hold weapons against our Syrian brothers".

Delegates applauded Zamel as he called on other armed groups to abandon the revolt.

"The road is open," said Zamel, who was identified as the head of the so-called Free Syrian Army's leadership in the south of the country.

Al Mayadeen, and Xinhuanet;

"... DAMASCUS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- In an unprecedented event, five Syrian military defectors who had sided with the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) dashed through a meeting of opposition parties in the capital Damascus on Wednesday, admitting that they were wrong and that holding weapons will not solve the Syrian crisis.Three officers, two warrant officers and six civilians, who had sided with the FSA, dashed through a conference of Syrian opposition at home on Wednesday. "After we had defected our military posts and worked with the armed groups, we figured that the solution to the Syrian crisis can't be achieved by holding weapons," they told the conference.
Lieutenant-Colonel Khaled Abdul-Rahman al-Zalem, a defected officer who served as the deputy chief of the rebels' military council, told the conference that "the solution can't be achieved through holding weapons, blasts, sabotage or killing the innocent, but repenting from the wrongdoing and through political means."
For his side, Yaser al-Abed, who ran an armed insurgent group in the northern Aleppo province, addressed the conference and called on those who have carried weapons to slow down. "Work your minds and know that holding weapons is nothing but a violation to the minds and freedom alike," he said.
"Syria is our home and honour, but they wanted to burn it...."


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