The leader of Lebanon's Shia organization Hizbollah says the group is sending fighters to neighboring Syria to support the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah made the reamrk during a televised speech on Saturday. Nasrallah told thousands of supporters that the Assad administration is the backbone of resistance against Israel, and cannot be allowed to fall. He said Hizbollah cannot stand back and watch, and promised his supporters victory. In Syria, fierce fighting continued on Saturday in Qusair. The strategically important city links the capital Damascus and the northwestern part of the country, which is the Assad family's traditional stronghold
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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