Syria: When will the West act? | Left Foot Forward

Syria: When will the West act? | Left Foot Forward

clipped from article: More than 5,000 – five thousand – people have died since demonstrations, huge outpourings of public disgust at President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, began in March, with several thousand Syrians detained, injured and tortured. Not even patients and doctors are safe from Assad’s death squads, who appear to be finding ever more heinous ways to silence the protesters’ voices.