by Daniel Siryoti
Families of Hezbollah fighters angry their sons are being sent to die in Syria, Saudi paper Al Watan reports • Groundswell of anger first erupted months ago, but has recently grown stronger due to the large number of casualties Hezbollah has sustained.
Hezbollah fighters carry the
coffin of one of their own, killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in
the town of Qusair in May 2013
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Families of Hezbollah fighters in south
Lebanon are growing increasingly angry that their sons are being sent to
fight and die for Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Saudi Arabian
newspaper Al Watan reported over the weekend.
While this groundswell of anger first erupted
several months ago, it has recently grown stronger due to the large
number of casualties Hezbollah has sustained during battles in the
northern suburbs of Damascus. Hundreds of Lebanese youths recruited by
the Shiite organization and sent to fight Sunni jihadist rebels
alongside the Syrian army have returned in coffins, sparking a new wave
of dissent.
Al Watan reported that the families of
Hezbollah fighters have issued a number of complaints against the
organization. According to the families, "Hezbollah representatives who
recruit their sons lie to them, promise them a lot of money, a salary
and benefits -- and they tell their relatives that they won't be sent to
the Syrian battlefields, which are revealed as lies."
Many of the parents have even told Lebanese
media outlets that the young recruits, their children, arrive in Syria
without the proper training.
"These kids are sent to the battlefield and
are being killed one after the other, because they have no knowledge of
how to fight," a senior member of the Shiite community in Lebanon told
the Al-Mustaqbal newspaper. "Our sons are cannon fodder for Assad," he
added.
The families in south Lebanon are also indignant that Hezbollah is "aiding in the slaughter of Muslims."
The mother of one new Hezbollah recruit, also quoted by
Al-Mustaqbal, said, "As long as our sons were recruited for the sake of
the resistance and fight against the Zionist occupation -- there is a
purpose. But I don’t want my son to participate in the massacre of
Muslims by other Muslims. Bashar Assad is demanding that our sons
slaughter his people."
Daniel Siryoti
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16007
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