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Wednesday 30 January 2013

Massacre in Syria

The Syrian crisis is getting out of hand on a daily basis and the world watches on just as it was during the Rwandan genocide. Massacres continued everyday and the latest is that of the killing of about 71 people in Aleppo.

The bodies were found littering the street of Aleppo. Syria risks becoming a kind of Somalia in the Middle East. The bickering of World Powers with Russia and China on one hand supporting an end to the crisis by Syrians themselves and the United States, Britain, France and Turkey on the other urging the former two to do more to restrain Assad's assaults.

The UN special enjoy, Lakhdar Brahimi continues to lament with no action on the ground to salvage the situation. In as much as Western intervention is an anathema, Russia should do more to prevail on Assad to end the massacre with the best being his stepping down for good.