Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning©Wikipedia
nUSANTARa - China
akan membantu daripada kerajaan Syria dalam memerangi Negara Islam (IS, yang
sebelum ini ISIL/ISIS) dengan menghantar "penasihat tentera," tuntut
laporan media.
"Orang
Cina akan tiba pada minggu-minggu akan datang," kata seorang pegawai
tentera Syria memberitahu laman web berita yang berpangkalan di Lubnan
Al-Masdar Al-Arabi.
Laporan
itu mendakwa bahawa sebuah kapal tentera laut China adalah dalam perjalanan ke
Syria dengan berpuluh-puluh "penasihat tentera" di atas kapal. Mereka
dilaporkan akan diikuti oleh tentera.
Kapal
itu dikatakan telah meninggal Terusan Suez di Mesir dan membuat jalan melalui
Laut Mediterranean.
Menurut
laman web itu, penasihat akan menyertai kakitangan Rusia di rantau Latakia itu.
Sementara
itu, laman web berita tentera Israel, ‘DEBKAfile’, telah memetik sumber tentera
sebagai berkata bahawa pengangkut pesawat China, Liaoning-CV-16, telah dikesan
di pelabuhan Syria Tartus di pantai Mediterranean. Ia dikatakan akan disertai
dengan cruiser peluru berpandu.
Berita
itu datang selepas Rusia, Iran, Iraq dan Syria bersetuju untuk menubuhkan
sebuah pusat maklumat bersama di Baghdad untuk menyelaraskan operasi mereka
terhadap militan Negara Islam, menurut sumber-sumber.
"Matlamat
utama pusat ini akan mengumpul, memproses dan menganalisis maklumat terkini
mengenai keadaan di Timur Tengah - terutamanya untuk pertempuran IS," kata
sumber tentera-diplomatik kepada agensi berita Rusia, Sabtu lalu.
Presiden
Rusia Vladimir Putin baru-baru ini ditanya mengenai kehadiran Rusia di Syria,
yang dia menjawab bahawa aktiviti Rusia adalah terhad kepada membekalkan
senjata kepada kerajaan Syria, latihan kakitangan dan menyediakan bantuan
kemanusiaan kepada rakyat Syria.
"Kami
bertindak berdasarkan Piagam Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu, iaitu prinsip-prinsip asas
undang-undang antarabangsa moden, mengikut yang ini atau yang berjenis bantuan,
termasuk bantuan tentera, boleh dan mesti disediakan secara eksklusif kepada
kerajaan yang sah sesebuah negara atau yang lain, apabila persetujuan atau
permintaan, atau atas keputusan Majlis Keselamatan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu,
"Putin memberitahu rancangan CBS '60 Minutes '.
Putin
mengulangi sokongannya kepada tentera Syria biasa -
tentera Presiden Bashar Assad. "Dia [Assad] berhadapan dengan apa yang
beberapa rakan antarabangsa kami mentafsirkan sebagai pembangkang. Pada
hakikatnya, tentera Assad adalah memerangi organisasi pengganas, "kata
Putin.
Presiden
Rusia berkata bahawa Amerika Syarikat cuba untuk melatih pembangkang Syria
untuk mengambil Negara Islam telah gagal. Amerika Syarikat telah bertujuan
untuk menyediakan sehingga 12,000 pejuang, tetapi hanya 60 berjaya menamatkan
latihan dan hanya 4 atau 5 sebenarnya berjuang dengan pembangkang, manakala
yang lain melarikan diri ke IS dengan senjata Amerika, Putin berkata, memetik
pendengaran Senat Amerika Syarikat.
"Pada
pendapat saya, penyediaan sokongan ketenteraan kepada struktur haram
bertentangan dengan prinsip-prinsip undang-undang antarabangsa moden dan Piagam
Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu," kata beliau.
Kembali
pada bulan Disember 2014, China telah menawarkan untuk membantu Iraq dalam
memerangi militan Negara Islam, sukarela untuk membantu dengan serangan udara,
tetapi berkata ia tidak akan menyertai gabungan yang diketuai Amerika Syarikat
terhadap ISIS.
Dalam
salah satu kekejaman terkini yang dilakukan oleh IS, kumpulan pengganas yang menggunakan
majalah dalam talian untuk hantar gambar-gambar 2 tebusan, satu Norway dan
seorang Cina, meletakkan orang-orang atas "untuk dijual."
Assad’s
enemies may be portrayed as opposition, but he fights terrorists (Musuh
Assad boleh digambarkan sebagai pembangkang, tetapi dia melawan pengganas) – #Putin http://on.rt.com/6sbd 4:10 AM - 27 Sep 2015
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China’s
military advisers ‘heading to Syria
to help fight ISIS’ – report
China
will be helping out the Syrian government in the fight against Islamic State
(IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) by sending “military advisers,” media reports have
claimed.
“The Chinese will be arriving in the coming weeks,” a Syrian army official told the Lebanon-based news website Al-Masdar Al-‘Arabi.
The
report claims that a Chinese naval vessel is on its way to Syria with dozens of
“military advisers” on board.
They will reportedly be followed by troops.
The
ship is said to have passed the Suez Canal in Egypt and be making its way
through the Mediterranean Sea.
According
to the website, the advisers will be joining Russian personnel in the Latakia
region.
Meanwhile,
an Israeli military news website, DEBKAfile, has
cited military sources as saying that a Chinese aircraft carrier, the
Liaoning-CV-16, has already been spotted at the Syrian port of Tartus on the
Mediterranean coast. It was said to be accompanied by a guided missile
cruiser.
The
news comes after Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria agreed to establish a joint
information center in Baghdad to coordinate their operations against Islamic
State militants, according to sources.
“The main goal of the center will be gathering, processing
and analyzing current information about the situation in the Middle East –
primarily for fighting IS,” a
military-diplomatic source told Russian news agencies on Saturday.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin was recently asked about Russia’s presence in Syria,
to which he replied that Russia’s activities are limited to supplying weapons
to the Syrian government, training personnel and providing humanitarian aid for
the Syrian people.
“We act
based on the United Nations Charter, i.e. the fundamental principles of modern
international law, according to which this or that type of aid, including
military assistance, can and must be provided exclusively to the legitimate
government of one country or another, upon its consent or request, or upon the
decision of the United Nations Security Council,” Putin told CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’
show.
Putin
reiterated his support for Syria’s regular army – the army of President Bashar
Assad. “He [Assad] is confronted with what some of our international partners
interpret as an opposition. In reality, Assad’s army is fighting against
terrorist organizations,” Putin said.
Russia’s
president added that US attempts to train a Syrian opposition to take on
Islamic State have failed. The US had aimed to prepare up to 12,000 fighters,
but only 60 managed to complete the training and only four or five actually
fought with the opposition, while others fled to IS with American weapons,
Putin said, citing US Senate hearings.
“In my
opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to
the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter,” he
said.
Back in
December, 2014, China offered to
help Iraq in fighting Islamic State militants, volunteering to assist with
airstrikes, but said it would not join the US-led coalition against ISIS.
In one
of the latest atrocities committed by IS, the terror group used an online
magazine to post pictures
of two hostages, one Norwegian and one Chinese, putting the men up “for sale.”
