Major General Ghassan Khalil, Governor of Hasaka, received Australian researcher Professor Tim Anderson

Major General Ghassan Khalil, Governor of Hasaka, received Australian researcher Professor Tim Anderson, Assistant Secretary-General of the Global Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance, who visited the governorate to review its reality on the ground and prepare an investigative research to be an added value to his previous research on Syria, namely “The Axis of Resistance” and “The Dirty War on Syria.”

The Governor gave a detailed explanation of the paths of the crisis in Syria and explained to Dr. Anderson that the war on Syria is not new, but rather it has been imposed on it for fifty years, however Syria has withstood and won in all stages of the conflict since 1970 and has become a country with a balanced Arab, regional and international decision, thanks to his wisdom of its leadership and the awareness of its people.

The Governor clarified that what was called the Arab Spring was a plan orchestrated by the colonial countries that started with regimes loyal to them in Tunisia that are dependent on the West, and Egypt that is linked to a peace treaty with the Zionist entity and economic relations, including ensuring the flow of gas to it, and subsequently Libya and Yemen, within the framework of preparing the people. Some Syrians wanted to engage in this movement to destroy their country with their own hands under the slogan of freedom and democracy, and this means that the movement was not spontaneous, but was orchestrated in the context of an elaborate conspiracy to destroy the Syrian state.

The governor added that the conspiracy planners controlled more than 100 media outlets with the aim of mobilizing and misleading, and more than 83 countries allied themselves in the context of the complex war that led to the employment of terrorism, which began with military action, initially targeting officers, including pilots, air defense systems and radars. This targeting was an Israeli demand because it had nothing to do with the popular movement.

The Governor continued that the conspiracy forces worked to open the borders and to bring in terrorists from all corners of the earth and to bring them into Syria.

This was preceded by the preparation of camps on the borders of Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and there was information that these camps were to house Syrians at a time when the security situation in Syria was stable.

As a result of the brutality of terrorism, a deliberate movement of displacement occurred, as the issue of refugees was traded and invested in economically and politically.

The Governor explained that with the expansion of terrorism and the opening of many fronts over the entire Syrian geography, the country relied on the formation of popular defense forces auxiliary to the army entrusted with the task of defending cities and protecting institutions and citizens from the influence of terrorists. These popular forces were armed in all governorates including Al-Hasakah Governorate, but these groups that were formed in Al-Hasakah turned their weapons towards the Syrian Arab Army and the security forces, and dozens of martyrs fell and hundreds were wounded. This state and the closure of schools to obscure and control the generation, imposing a curriculum different from the approved government curriculum, carrying out many crimes, massacres, and violations, including displacement, property confiscation, child recruitment, kidnapping and enforced disappearance, spread in the north where the fate of hundreds of missing persons is still unknown to this day.

The Governor explained to Dr. Anderson the practices of the American occupation and its associates, which are the theft of oil, the looting of wheat, the burning of crops, and the implementation of Caesar’s law.

He also explained the practices of the Turkish occupation that are similar to the practices of the American occupation, in addition to the crime of blocking drinking water for one million citizens of al-Hasakah.

In response to a question posed by Dr. Anderson about the future of the region, the governor replied that the future belongs to Syria and its Syrian children and that the American occupation cannot continue to stay on Syrian soil because the pretext for its existence is no longer valid, and its existence is illegal. And because it is not at the invitation of the Syrian government, which gives the people of the region the right to launch a popular resistance, which was practically launched against it, but the American occupation is working to replace the Turkish occupation in the context of its search for the opportunity available to achieve this.

At the end of the visit, Professor Tim Anderson thanked the Governor of Hasaka for the information he provided, which he believed constituted important keys and addresses for the research that he would prepare for the region soon.