The violence in Syria is worse than most people realise
according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. Research by the organisation
has found that people detained by the Syrian government were tortured extremely
harshly, detainees were beaten, burned with acid and sexually abused. The
report also claims that torture in institutional, sanctioned by the highest
levels of the Syrian government. The organisation is calling for the
International Criminal Court to call for the arrest of top level Syrian
officials, in a similar style to what it did for Colonel Gaddafi and his
family. The only problem with this is that Russia, Syria’s ally, could (and
would) block any attempt to do so.
To anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of
attention to the Syrian conflict, this will come as no surprise. But
nonetheless it helps to apply pressure to Syria’s few remaining allies to
abandon the Assad regime and back Arab and Western Nations proposals for regime
change.
I still believe that the best thing that the UN could do,
would be a UN peacekeeping mission that would try and reconcile both sides,
this could plausibly get Russia on side and would be appealing to the West. Although
I believe regime change is inevitable, a peacekeeping force would be the first
step towards such an event.
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| Syrian Conflict has destroyed the country Source: Wall Street Journal |
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