Ah, Human Rights
"More than 500 children have been killed. Some children have been killed or wounded by snipers and other state forces, including those 10 years old or younger. Others have been arrested, tortured, and sexually abused in detention. Children cannot go to school. The streets are not safe and more than a thousand schools have been vandalized, burned or destroyed.Outrage from Washington at the abysmal and continued inclusion of Syria as a duly elected member of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization. But back in November, when that election and its outcome occurred, the United States was still supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad; American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton expressed the Obama administration's abiding faith in al-Assad back then....
"Syrian villages, towns and cities are facing devastation, and Syria's rich cultural heritage is imperiled. How many dead and wounded journalists must be carried out of Syria before we recognize that the situation in that country is an affront to the very purposes for which UNESCO was founded?"
So Syria was half-heartedly 'condemned' by the United Nations, while at the same time, there was no move to remove Syria from the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations that assesses human rights violations. Presumably, Syria's representative to the Committee will be quite involved in parsing the misunderstood actions of the Syrian Baathist regime for the edification of the Council at some future date, to prevent his country from the ignominy of further condemnation.
The "continued widespread and systematic violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities", the wording of the UN resolution condemning Damascus was not a sufficient affront to human dignity and human rights to reach the next logical step. But that's the United Nations for you. Where speaking the language of forked-tongue-diplomacy has become a requirement for anyone to get ahead in the world of UN diplomacy and going-along-to-get-along.
With a handful of significant exceptions. And with one singular state standing out as a pariah among human-rights-abusing, yet respected states the world over, whose numbers are so striking that they have been highly successful in setting aside truth and reality in favour of selective falsehoods, circumlocution and avoidance. Cabals and cliques, the stuff of which the United Nations celebrates human rights and peace the world over.
The United Nations now estimates that 8,500 Syrians have been killed, slaughtered, butchered and massacred by the regime of Bashar al-Assad, who vows he will not step down, will not surrender his obligations to the Syrian people to the malevolent machinations of foreign terror. For it is foreign-back terrorists who have killed over two thousand of his soldiers and police.
In Syria, as elsewhere in the Middle East and most Muslim countries of the world the choice is there: either an iron-fisted dictator or chaos resulting from sectarian violence, tribal-based hatred, anger and victimization - and a third choice, becoming increasingly popular; combine both to introduce to feverishly unstable states some semblance of order: firmly fanatical Islamist rule.
Labels: Middle East, Political Realities, Syria, United Nations
posted by Pieface @ Monday, March 12, 2012
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