{Activists on Twitter and Facebook ask the Syrian opposition to boycott peace talks scheduled for Friday.}
Syrian activists have launched an online campaign, #DontgotoGeneva, calling on the Syrian opposition to boycott peace talks expected to start in Geneva on Friday.
Some activists have accused the Syrian opposition invited to the talks of looking out for their own benefits and ignoring the Syrian peoples’ demands.
“Geneva 1, Geneva 2, Riyadh 1 and I don’t know what .. all these talks are lies,” an activist in the Syrian city of Aleppo, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera.
“Here in Syria, we know that nothing will change during or after these talks. The opposition only wants an external political victory. Otherwise, if they represent the Syrian people – why are they abroad?”
The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, sent out the invitations on Tuesday to the Syrian participants of the Geneva talks, which are expected to last for six months.
The talks come after a set of meetings between the international community and regional players.
The opposition’s High Negotiations Committee (HNC), which was formed in Riyadh last month, said it would decide on Thursday whether to take part.
The committee said it is waiting for a response from the UN to a set of requests and if their conditions are not met, the group will not attend the talks.
The Syrian government has already said it will attend.
Online activists sharing their opinions on Twitter and Facebook have criticised the talks and called them useless.
This post by one activist says: “Do not go to Geneva. We did not sacrifice all this blood and half a million martyrs to share the government with a criminal gang and their fake opposition.”
Source:Al Jazeera:[Syrian activists launch #DontgotoGeneva campaign->http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/syrian-activists-dontgotogeneva-campaign-160127174013151.html]
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