The indifference to human suffering that is a deeply embedded feature of the United Nations Security Council. Nearly 600 hospitals have been bombed since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, according to Physicians for Human Rights. Two years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the count at 560,000 people. A separate organization, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, counts another 98,279 people who have been “disappeared” by the Assad regime into its dungeons. In the NATO capitals, the callous indifference to Syrian suffering is not new, and there have already been consequences.

Source: National Post February 05, 2020 19:52 UTC