Pages

Monday, January 28, 2013

THE CONSEQUENCES OF OBAMA'S AND THE INT'L COMMUNITY'S FIDDLING WHILE SYRIA BURNS: Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning - By Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy

 

Earlier this month, the United Nations announced its assessment that 59,648 people have died in Syria's two-year-old civil war. That headline figure is grim, but U.N. human rights commissioner Navi Pillay made a point of noting that the real number is almost certainly higher. The overwhelming majority of those people were civilians. Far too many of them were children.

That should have been a call to action. It wasn't. The government's attacks against civilians continue unabated. U.N. Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has accomplished next to nothing. The daily death tolls continue to spiral. Unless the international community does something, the total is going to be far higher.........

FULL ARTICLE HERE: Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning - By Christian Caryl | Foreign Policy

No comments:

Post a Comment

Feel free to comment but keep it civil or your comment will be exiled to the voids of cyberspace.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.