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Syria’s minority communities are being butchered. Where is the outrage?
The demonstrable truth as these words are being written is that the people of Iraq were far better of under the rule of Saddam, the people of Libya under the rule of Gaddafi, and now also the people of Syria under that of Assad.
In Syria reports have emerged of entire families being butchered in their homes, along with hundreds of young and not so young men being massacred in the street. This at the same time as in Western chancellories sanctions are being lifted in service to the steady but sure normalization of relations with the country’s new barbarous regime.
Death squads — despatched to the predominately Alawite-populated Mediterranean coastal enclave of Latakia in the north west of Syria in response to a brief uprising there against the rule of Muhammad Abu al-Jolani in Damascus— have engaged in an orgy of slaughter. Video footage has emerged of mass executions of Christians, Alawites (Alawi is an off shoot of Shia Islam) and others.
