UN makes record Syria appeal to avert ‘greatest humanitarian crisis in history’ – Telegraph.
And world leaders rushed to take out their checkbooks and make checks for a total of $6.5 billion. After all, if the behavior of world leaders over the last three years proves anything it’s that they deeply believe in the pricelessness of human life.
Stories of Syrian Refugees encapsulate the Arab World’s new Nakba – While some societies evolve, we stumble on from one Nakba to the next. We can blame the world as much as we want, and we will have a point, but change will not come until we acknowledge our part in our repeated victimization. “Canned” responses and ideologies will not produce the needed change.
AFP: Syria war crimes evidence implicates Assad: UN.
A message to Assad ahead of Geneva 2: prepare to leave office willingly, or you will be prosecuted for war crimes. The problem with this message is that the messenger, be it the UN or the international community at large, has no credibility. Previous behavior patterns indicate a willingness to back down in the face of impunity.
A panel with the Syrian activist Ammar Abdulhamid, The New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation’s Andranik Migranyan, and the New America Foundation’s Anne-Marie Slaughter took place on October 6 as part of The New Yorker Festival 2013. The panel was moderated by Steve Coll, the New Yorker staff writer and the dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, and was attended by around 200 participants. The photos were just released.
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The Ammar Abdulhamid Archive 