I can’t write about this.
Wael, said he had seen a six-year-old die after being tortured and starved.The 16 year-old told the report’s authors: “I watched him die. He only survived for three days and then he simply died.”
BBC News – Syria child trauma ‘appalling’ – Save the Children
What kind of monster can do that? What kind of people are we that such things happen?
Photo gallery, including the ones here.
If you'd like to read or comment on a synthesis of the ideas here, please check out my evolving work on government.
Pollution, privacy, abortion, net neutrality -- just about every controversy in modern life -- depends on correctly defining and understanding our inalienable rights.
Articles, stories, and books can all be downloaded on the ebook page. New addition, 2017-01-04, Shortcuts, a novel on that useless battle of the sexes .
Biologist, lifelong denizen of academe, science fiction writer, world-class procrastinator, and proudly lazy.
I goof around on Mastodon
Astronomy - Space
All over the map
Tech stuff
Dreamers
The Realist at work . . .
Credits: Acid Test uses WordPress. Spam filtering and general junk defense by Akismet and Anti-leech. Rotating banner images php script from Dan Benjamin on A List Apart. Open source Piwik used to count site visits and their geographic location. (Google is getting too pervasive for my tastes.) No personal information of any kind is tracked or stored.
Horrible. What’s happening in Syria? Why is it taking so long?
Branjor on September 26th, 2012 at 20:37
Really.
It doesn’t help that the Russians and Chinese are propping up the dictator because he’s officially a “Socialist,” and the Iranians are propping him up because it’ll annoy the hell out of everybody, especially Sunnis (read: Saudi Arabia), and the North Koreans seem to be sending him weapons, etc., etc. etc.
Somehow, it seems to me, at the very least London and New York could choke off the regime’s finances and end the reign of that garbage that way.
I don’t know how Islamist, sharia-bonkers, or anything else the Free Syrian Army is. Kids and kittens keep being photographed near them, so they’re definitely good at media, whatever else they might be. Seriously, though, there do seem to be very few atrocities associated with them, so I guess they’re the good guys for now.
quixote on September 27th, 2012 at 21:33