Human rights violations, mass killings, destruction of infrastructure as well as heritage sites; Syria has seen all that the world’s most cruel and barbaric time would shy away from. Just for a background check; the Human Rights Watch has reported that the Assad regime has created an archipelago of torture centers spearheaded by the country’s intelligence agencies, followed by the armed forces. On the other hand, the opposition groups have been accused by the United Nations for brutal offences like torture, unlawful killings, kidnapping, rape and even the use of children in dangerous roles. All of the belligerents have turned out to be blood stained.
The civil war that started in March 2011 has constantly intensified, getting even more bloody and inhumane with every passing day. How unbelievable it is to see that an uprising that started with mere protests got so violent that the daily death toll has gone up to almost 150! Only in the last month of March 2013, the country saw more than 6000 deaths –a figure rarely met by any other man made tragedy. Perilously the figure includes 298 children and 291 women who lost their lives at the hands of something they possibly didn’t start, continue or want. The figures of rebels and government soldiers were averaging the same as each other with tolls between 1400 and 1500 for each side.
Regardless of the cause, a human life is a LIFE! Many of the dead would have been the whole world to somebody. The 6000 that died in March would have left tens of thousands of mourners in grief that would last a lifetime. An even more troublesome factor in all the mayhem is how the crisis is getting brutal day by day, for instance in the first nine whole months of the uprising, death tolls were far less than 6000. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights representatives are of the opinion that:
“If there is no solution, we think that the numbers will get worse in the coming months.”
It has been reported that the hostilities have now spread to newer parts of the country like the province of Daraa –not that the previous clashes in the major cities of Aleppo, Damascus and Homs were not brutal enough. The United Nations has reported that the estimated total count of deaths since the initialization of Syrian Crisis has topped 70,000.
My point in all this is not just to report the figures, anybody would do that; my concern is not that of Assad’s regime or the opposition, it is about the innocent children and the helpless females of a country that falls under our responsibility when it comes to Islamic duties –and human rights above that. The ever increasing tension between two parties with their own agendas –regardless of who is right and who is wrong; has spread murder, rape, kidnapping and torture throughout Syria. My concern is the child who grows up under the constant fear of a bomb that could turn his home into ashes.
I demand an end to this; even if that means throwing out every one of the pugnacious leaders that are carrying on the war along with their allies. There is a time when humanity has to be the ultimate agenda that should outweigh the rest –for Syria, that time is now.
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