The Arabic-language hashtag ‘Aleppo besieged’ is currently trending on Twitter as regime forces cut off the last entry and exit point to the city this month and are bombarding the area in an effort to defeat enemy rebel groups therein. The hashtag is provoking as many reactions as there are opinions on how to end the devastating five-year-long conflict.
Some used the hashtag to show solidarity with the city’s inhabitants as they suffer from regime bombings and the effects of the blockade, calling the regime criminals.
العالم صم بكم لا يرون جرائم الإرهابي المجرم#بشار#حلب_محاصرة pic.twitter.com/4al5iF8Wiq
— ابو سامر الخالدية (@tt7jyFiChfLh2Tg) July 25, 2016
The world is deaf and doesn’t see the terrorist crimes of the criminal Bashar (al-Assad).
The Assad regime has been accused of committing war crimes numerous times throughtout the course of the war.
Others criticized the rebel groups, calling them barbaric terrorists.
#المعارضة المعتدلة تلاعب اطفالها بالرؤوس المقطوعة
— pop king (@mahmoudwanous) July 27, 2016
ماذا سيصبح الطفل هذا عندما يكبر
عل هؤلاء معتدلين؟؟
#حلب_محاصره pic.twitter.com/Um2KcIhRlT
The moderate opposition plays with a little boy over a severed head. What will this boy become when he grows up? Are these moderates?
Nusra Front and other groups considered terrorists by some governments are presently in the Aleppo area.
The hashtag demonstrates the wide arrays of opinions on the conflict among Syrians and other Arabs. And if the tweets are any indication, the bad blood between supporters of the regime and the rebels is not going away anytime soon.
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