US anti-Syria hysteria hits new high: Kerry accuses Assad of 'massacre'

US Secretary of State John Kerry, whose country has been sponsoring anti-government terrorists in Syria since 2011, says Aleppo must not face a Srebrenica-style massacre, after the eastern part of the city was liberated by the Syrian army from militants, mostly foreigners.

Speaking at a news briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Kerry accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of perpetrating “a massacre" in eastern Aleppo. "The Assad regime is actually carrying out nothing short of a massacre,” he said.

The US and its Western allies, along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been fighting a proxy war against the Syrian government and people for nearly six years. The war has left about half a million Syrians dead and millions more displaced.

In 2012, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists backed by Syria’s enemies succeeded in capturing the eastern part of Aleppo, Syria's largest city with a population of 2.5 million people. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aleppo has been described as Syria's commercial capital.

The part of the city the militants have been holding has turned into ruins in these years; and terrorists have been committing atrocities against civilians and holding tens of thousands of them hostage since 2012.

Following a months-long offensive, the Syrian army backed by Russian airpower finally succeeded in liberating eastern Aleppo from the terrorists, but Western officials and news media are now engaged in creating fake news about the situation in the city by spreading a false narrative.

Continuing this malicious campaign against the Syrian government, America's top diplomat, Kerry, on Thursday expressed outrage at the fate of civilians trapped in Aleppo, and demanded that the Syrian government must agree to peace talks in Geneva.

"The only remaining question is whether the Syrian regime, with Russia's support, is willing to go to Geneva prepared to negotiate constructively, and whether or not they're willing to stop this slaughter of their own people," he said.

"What has happened already in Aleppo is unconscionable," Kerry told reporters, as thousands of Aleppo civilians were transported out of the city by the Syrian government with International Committee of the Red Cross involvement.

"But there remains tens of thousands of lives that are now concentrated into a very small area of Aleppo," he said.

"And the last thing anybody wants to see... is that that small area turns into another Srebrenica," he said, making an outrageous reference to a 1995 Bosnian war massacre, where more than 8,000 Muslim Bosnians were murdered by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska under the command of General Ratko Mladic.

In Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army is protecting civilians from terrorists, not killing them as Kerry and the mainstream Western media have claimed.

The Syrian government is even offering a safe passage to thousands of militants and their families through a humanitarian corridor and evacuating injured militants with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

"Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded, including children, were brought out," the head of the ICRC in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said after two convoys left. "No-one knows how many people are left in the east, and the evacuation could take days."

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