ASSAD’S BRUTALITY IN SYRIA

The Wall Street Journal

  • APRIL 26, 2011

Notable & Quotable

Writer Farid Ghadry on Assad’s brutality in Syria.

  • Syrian writer Farid Ghadry on his blog, April 24:

It is unconscionable to think that people are dropping like flies on Syrian streets, the injured are hiding in private homes to avoid capture or cold-blooded murder, the funeral procession are being shot at with many killed at a time they bereave the dead, the detained are tortured and many die and are buried in mass graves, yet the international community seems only willing to extend words of comfort. . . . Then comes [Turkish Prime Minister] Erdogan who thinks Gaza is tragic with its people under siege and tyranny while Syrians, under his buddy Assad, enjoy comfort and freedom. Where is your humanitarian flotilla to Syria Erdogan? . . . Are Gazans better people than Syrians? Is Assad too dear a friend for you to bother? And where are the Hamas Palestinians who seem to forget everyone else’s tragedy except their own?

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