SYRIA. A month Geneva 2, despair

If " attempts to destroy the Syrian people continue, then the coalition will not go to Geneva ." A month before the planned conference on January 22 , the statement of the Secretary General of the National Coalition opposition , Badr Jamous , sounds like a warning to the international community, while the Assad regime multiplied more than ever raids air on insurgents neighborhoods, especially in Aleppo , making numerous civilian casualties.

"If the country (foreign ) can not put pressure on the regime to stop its destruction operations (...) , how can they put pressure on the regime in Geneva -2 for a political solution ? " , continued Badr Jamous .

The bombing of the Syrian air force were 300 deaths, including 87 children, eight days on insurgents Aleppo and its province sectors , according to the balance of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( OSDH ) . Live in neighborhoods where many civilians have also , for the most part, chosen not to be in rebel-controlled areas .

For many months the scheme employs a method more barbarous to destroy the rebellion ruthlessly controlled by shaving his fighters neighborhoods. No matter that they are in the middle of old men, women or children.

Intensification of attacks

To do so, the Assad army uses - as an economy measure ? - Means that no rules of war, as achieved in a completely undifferentiated any building or person filled with TNT barrels thrown from airplanes . One way many times denounced by NGOs such as Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch . The latter has also once again alerted international opinion this week : " HRW documented an intensification of attacks by the government since November 23 ," said the NGO in a statement. " The period from December 15 to 18 saw the most intense air strikes in Aleppo from the start, involving residential and commercial areas , killing dozens of civilians , no military target or the slightest indication of military objectives identified in the around , "says Human Rights Watch, which speaks of deliberate crimes against civilians.

A situation that the opposition denounced in vain among Westerners, as ordered Russia to prove his neutrality before the Geneva conference . Moscow has indeed vetoed again to the issue of a statement of the Security Council of the United Nations condemning the Assad government for such attacks in the barrels of TNT.

Hopes are extinguished

On the French side , despite the many daily deaths, diplomacy verb somewhat lower since the renunciation to intervene militarily in September. If Laurent Fabius met in Paris this week the President of the Syrian National Coalition , al- Jarba , and " condemned in the strongest terms the heinous acts committed by the Aleppo al- Assad Bashar ," they do remains that the meeting resulted in no other form of protest or action.

A month Geneva 2, Bashar al- Assad , backed by Moscow and Tehran is continuing its work all-out repression . Westerners concerned about the development of the jihadist presence , for their part ended with the insurgents. The moderate opposition , no ally is reduced to the threat of boycott. But even this alternative does not seem a plausible weapon as there is little to expect from the Geneva conference . Face opposition crumbled and often radicalized , Bashar al- Assad is in a strong position and the simple possibility of a Geneva-based transitional government composed of revolutionary with full executive powers is now qualified to Washington , not project but hope.