More on Syria as I try to make sense of it.
More on Syria as I try to make sense of it.
I think this article is helpful for context & recent history and to see what will happen next.
Trying to understand our govts insistence on joining bombing raids without Parliamentary scrutiny or approval leads me to the conclusion: we still follow the US' policy now as we did under Blair/Labour. Our (the West's interests remain security over energy/oil supplies which drives the interest in the region's balance of power).
As evidenced by our attitude to the few refugees who make it to the UK, we really don't give a shit about the people living in Syria or the region in general.
Underlying it all though, if you do care about people, are some dreadful statistics:
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The war is now arguably the world’s largest humanitarian disaster since World War II. The death toll now stands at nearly half a million, though the UN has stopped counting. Countless others are wounded and missing. A U.S. government report that the Assad regime is using a crematorium near the Saidnaya Prison outside Damascus indicates many of their remains may never be found. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 13.1 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance, with more than 6 million internally displaced and 5 million registered as refugees. Hundreds of thousands more remain unregistered. Estimates of the total number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon today surpass a quarter of the country’s population, with only slighter smaller figures for Jordan.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/syria-chemical-weapons/558065/
I think this article is helpful for context & recent history and to see what will happen next.
Trying to understand our govts insistence on joining bombing raids without Parliamentary scrutiny or approval leads me to the conclusion: we still follow the US' policy now as we did under Blair/Labour. Our (the West's interests remain security over energy/oil supplies which drives the interest in the region's balance of power).
As evidenced by our attitude to the few refugees who make it to the UK, we really don't give a shit about the people living in Syria or the region in general.
Underlying it all though, if you do care about people, are some dreadful statistics:
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The war is now arguably the world’s largest humanitarian disaster since World War II. The death toll now stands at nearly half a million, though the UN has stopped counting. Countless others are wounded and missing. A U.S. government report that the Assad regime is using a crematorium near the Saidnaya Prison outside Damascus indicates many of their remains may never be found. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 13.1 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance, with more than 6 million internally displaced and 5 million registered as refugees. Hundreds of thousands more remain unregistered. Estimates of the total number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon today surpass a quarter of the country’s population, with only slighter smaller figures for Jordan.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/syria-chemical-weapons/558065/
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