Saturday, March 6, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
A million hungry souls - Brutal transfer committed by Syrian regime finally recognized by UN - 'Syria can no longer hide the immense transfer it has embarked on in respect to more than one million of its miserable citizens, after a UN report two weeks ago exposed the bitter truth successfully concealed thus far: More than 300,000 Syrian families have been uprooted by authorities from their homes in eastern Syria and abandoned in the country’s major cities without any means of making a living. The reason: An illogical policy of forced agricultural in the east of the country that included forcing residents to grow water-hungry corps such as cotton and wheat; this prompted water wells to dry up completely and led to deep hunger...' [Important. Read it all.]
Color me indifferent. The UN does not care what Arabs do to one another even the one time out a thousand they bother to note that it happens. They will use this to point out that they are 'unbiased' and 'fair' which of course is claptrappery.
Don't miss the point. This is more about water usage and population transfer as a weapon than it is about the usual hypocrisy.
Probably the only way to really deal with is with international cooperation, and to effectively share resources people will have to start working together.
I don't think there's a lot of time to lose. With the best of intentions creating pipelines, desalinization plants and other means of transferring water to regions in need, relief is years off, maybe decades.
The Syrian government doesn't care. It's not even necessarily in their interest. The people exist for the use of the regime. The regime doesn't exist for the people.