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beberapa hari pertempuran serangan berat, tentera kerajaan Syria dan militia
tempatan telah mengambil semula bandar Al-Qaryatayn dari Negara Islam (IS).
Sebagai RT Lizzie Phelan mengembara di sana, beliau mendapati tempat2 yang dimusnahkan.
Al-Qaryatayn
telah diadakan oleh kumpulan pengganas sejak akhir Ogos. Pembebasan bandar
mengisytiharkan 3 April hari datang selepas Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini
ISIS/ISIL) telah ditolak halau dari bandar purba Palmyra, 100 km (60 batu) ke
timur.
Churches
burnt, cemeteries desecrated: RT visits liberated town of Al-Qaryatayn, Syria
Al-Qaryatayn
had been held by terrorist groups since late August. The liberation of the city
proclaimed April 3 came days after Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was
pushed out of the ancient city of Palmyra, 100km (60 miles) to the east.
Syrian
forces retake strategic Christian town of al-Qaryatain (Tentera Syria menawan
semula bandar strategik Christian al-Qaryatain) http://on.rt.com/78zz
Tentera
menjangka Al-Qaryatayn untuk berkhidmat sebagai batu loncatan untuk kemajuan
selanjutnya terhadap kubu kuat IS di timur Syria.
"Al-Qaryatayn
adalah di persimpangan yang menghubungkan sempadan Iraq dengan Palmyra dan dari
Palmyra melalui Damsyik," Ahmad Albuhamad, leftenan pertama dalam rejimen
puak itu, sekutu tentera Arab Syria (SAA), menjelaskan kepada RT.
The
army expects Al-Qaryatayn to serve as a springboard for further advances
against IS strongholds in eastern Syria.
“Al-Qaryatayn
is at a junction that connects the Iraqi border with Palmyra and from Palmyra
through to Damascus,” Ahmad Albuhamad, first lieutenant in the Tribesmen
regiment, an ally of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), explained to RT.
RT’s Lizzie Phelan in the liberated Christian
city of Al-Qaryatayn/RT (RT Lizzie Phelan di bandar Kristian Al-Qaryatayn yang
sudah dibebaskan/RT)
Golongan
ini nampaknya mengunakan jentolak sebahagiannya memusnahkan Biara St
Elias, yang bermula sejak lebih daripada
1,500 tahun. tulang manusia dari kubur purba strewed di tengah-tengah runtuhan.
Di
dalam biara terdapat gereja Assyria dan semua simbol-simbol Kristian di
dalamnya telah dimusnahkan. Di tanah perkuburan gereja, batu nisan telah
dibuang dan semua salib dikeluarkan.
Syukurlah,
gereja lama yang indah biara ini masih berdiri, tetapi telah dirosakkan dengan
teruk. Selepas usahanya untuk menetapkan bangunan terbakar dari dalam, rasuk
lama melihat bakaran dan lantai itu ditutup dengan laman dalam bakaran dengan
teks-teks Assyria daripada kitab-kitab Kristian.
Krew RT
melaporkan banyak gereja Assyria di kawasan itu telah memuat dirobohkan atau
rosak teruk.
Tidak
ada satu bangunan ditinggalkan dalam Al-Qaryatayn yang dapat melarikan diri
dari kerosakan pertempuran.
Sementara
itu tentera Syria, dengan bantuan pencari ranjau Rusia, bekerja untuk lombong
bandar Palmyra, pengambilan yang diadakan sebagai kedua-dua kemenangan
strategik dan simbolik dalam peperangan menentang jihadis.
Selepas
IS merampas Palmyra Mei lalu, mereka bukan sahaja dirobohkan objek warisan
DUNIA, tetapi direncana dengan muslihat bandar purba keseluruhan dengan bahan
letupan, meninggalkan beribu-ribu lombong sebelum pengunduran mereka.
The
jihadists apparently used a bulldozer to partially destroy St Elias Monastery,
which dates back more than 1,500 years. Human bones from ancient graves are
strewed amidst the rubble.
Inside
the monastery there is an Assyrian church and all Christian symbols in it have
been destroyed. In the church graveyard, the gravestones have been trashed and
all the crosses removed.
Thankfully,
the monastery’s beautiful old church is still standing, but has been severely
desecrated. After an apparent attempt to set the building on fire from inside,
the old beams look burnt and the floor is covered with burnt pages with texts
in Assyrian from Christian holy books.
RT’s
crew reports many Assyrian churches in the area have been either demolished or
badly damaged.
There
is not one building left in Al-Qaryatayn that has escaped damage from the
fighting.
In the
meantime Syrian forces, with the help of Russian sappers, are working to
de-mine the city of Palmyra, the taking of which is being held up as both a
strategic and symbolic win in the battle against the jihadists.
After
IS seized Palmyra last May, they not only demolished objects of world heritage,
but rigged the entire ancient city with explosives, leaving behind thousands of
mines before their retreat.
#ISIS had
3,000 bombs rigged, ready to level entire #Palmyra citywith one click (#ISIS Mempunyai
3,000 bom direncana dengan muslihat, bersedia ke tahap keseluruhan #Palmyracity
dengan 1 klik) http://on.rt.com/78s1
Pakar
pembersihan periuk api Rusia kini mengimbas kompleks purba untuk mencari bahan
letupan. Lebih 100 lombong telah pun dimatikan.
Russian
mine clearance specialists are now scanning the ancient complex in search of
explosives. Over 100 mines have already been defused.
