Since March of 2011, Bashar
al-Assad’s Syrian regime has been fighting a war against its own
civilians, which has resulted in the killing of over 70,000 people, and the
displacement of 9 million more into refugee camps over the last three years.
As Syrians both inside the country and
living in camps now head into what looks the next of many more years of war to come, their story in American media remains devoid of clarity and far from the reality they
must endure each day.
That is three years into the Syrian
War and Americans still remain only vaguely aware of Assad’s genocidal war crimes, political ties
to P5 countries like Russia and China (and Iran), the trading of weapons, illegal demolition of entire
neighborhoods, and the inhumane living conditions they continue to suffer.
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| Syrian neighborhood blasted with dynamite by government - Human Rights Watch (2014) Razed to the Ground |
Though it's not a story about FIFA's work that is difficult to tolerate but that news giants failed to report that on the same day (March 15, 2014) the Syrian government failed yet again to meet deadlines 'mandated' by the United States to destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons.
1,300 killed in chemical attack on Ghouta region
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| August 2013 - http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/08/21 |
Therefore, a comparative look at the reality of the situation makes it clear that it is not FIFA we should be concerned with, but the repeated failures on the part of international negotiators to hold Assad's regime accountable for not only the blatantly using chemical weapons to kill civilians, but for allowing Syria to maintain control and possession over ACTUAL weapons of mass destruction.
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