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By Dana Berzinjy:
The United Nations (UN) has ignored the Syrian people and it is not taking serious action to protect them. As usual the Russian government is supporting the Syrian dictatorship, in the same way that it supported the executed former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein before 2003.
I am wondering why the UN does not support the Syrian people in the same way that it has helped the Libyan opposition parties and people. Everybody knows that the coalition forces helped the Libyan opposition to destroy Gadhafi’s forces: the coalition has successfully achieved its objective in knocking out Gadhafi’s government.
But why is the UN not directing the coalition forces to Syria, in order to help these defenseless people, capture the dictator and disable and stop the Syrian army from murdering its own people?
Could it be that the coalition countries are more concerned about securing more business and making more money than protecting the rights of human beings? A country like Italy, for instance, will get around $1.5 billion from the contract that the coalition made with the Libyan opposition parties. I believe the other countries, such as the United States of America, United Kingdom and France will get an even bigger share from this contract because they participated in this war more directly than Italy.
If this is not the case, why does the UN now turn a blind eye towards the vital issue of Syria? If the UN really wants to spread freedom and democracy to Libya and all of the Middle East, why does it not support the Syrian people and promote democracy in Syria in order to rescue these people from being abused and killed by the Syrian butchers?
Supporting the Syrian people is even more important than it was to support Libya’s people, because in Libya the opposition was already armed and better able to protect the population from Gadhafi’s regime. But in Syria there is no strong armed opposition to protect the people from the regime’s savage troops. The World is silent and turns a blind eye to the Syrian genocide. The World is therefore indirectly supporting the Syrian regime in its crimes against innocent civilians.
In addition, the Iranian fascist regime is also sharing in the crimes and genocide of the Syrian dictatorship by giving them aid such as army personnel advisors and by sending bombs and artillery in order to destroy Syrian Revolution.
French and UK leaders have arrived in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, to offer more help to the Libyan opposition. In addition to the money released by the European banks, for example, Italy has released Libyan money and given it to the Libyan opposition. But the Syrian people have been excluded from all of this support.
20 years years after the Russian revolution against communism, the current Russian government still has the communist mentality and supports any dictators that kill their own people. For instance, during the uprising in 1991, and even before the collapse of the former Iraqi government, the Russian government shamelessly supported Saddam’s dictatorship and wanted to save the regime from collapsing and it did not support the UN’s Resolution against the Iraqi government. Even though millions of Iraqi people were killed during Saddam’s rule, the Russian government selfishly and foolishly supported him. This story repeats itself today with Russia making the same mistake as before. The Russian government opposes any economic sanctions that the UN considers imposing on the Syrian butchers.
Russia’s envoy to the UN was on the RT (Russia Today) TV channel on 15th September 2011, at 11.30pm Australian time, and he was not supporting the struggle of the Syrian people nor the struggle for freedom and democracy. Instead he claimed that putting more restrictions on the Syrian government would encourage the opposition and the people of Syria to make the situation worse, making it become like Libya. But the Russian representative has forgotten that more than 3000 people have been killed up to the present time by the Syrian dictatorship. An average of 20 people are being killed every day and thousands of innocent people are injured and are suffering without any medication from the World. More than half a million Kurds are living in Syria even to this day without citizenship. These people have lived there and in the Middle East for thousands of years – even before the existence of the Arabs in the Middle East – but now they have became refugees in their own home country and they have no rights as human beings. The inaction by the UN and Russia is effectively a form of support for genocide against the innocent, unarmed and defenseless Syrian people.
