World Issue’s Summative
By Cole Urech
One of the biggest areas of
concern is Syria. Syria has been in a bloody civil war for 2 years now and
showing no signs of stopping or even slowing down, displacing millions of
refugees. Syria has also been reported and investigated for using chemical
weapons which breaks international laws and it is a mutual agreement between
countries not to use Chemical weapons (which to this day they deny) even though
when the UN inspectors showed up they found that chemicals had been used even
on their own people. This has caused a huge alarm with the United Nations
Security Council, because the U.S. declared they’re “going in” to solve the
problem.
With all of the terrible things
going on in Syria it makes me wonder what the after affects will be world wide
good or bad, economically, health issues, housing, jobs and not to mention the
emotional aftermath of all the displacements. With all the millions of
displaced people that have fled into nearby Turkey, to live in refugee camps.
If the conflict comes to an end soon, some of the may stay in Turkey and with
more people means more jobs which would boost their economy and we in North
America will be seeing more [made in Turkey] on the stuff we buy more often
almost like a 2nd or 3rd China.
With the total deaths at over one
million on both sides of the conflict one would think there should be more news
about what is going on over in Syria. At one million deaths the Syria conflict
should no longer be called a civil war it should be called genocide because there
is a majority killing a minority. I
don’t understand how at first the world was in disbelief about what Assad
ordered to happen his people including women and children. When it breaks the
news that Syria used chemical weapons to kill more people the UN finally did
something useful and sent inspectors to inspect for weapons. This shows others
countries that they can get away with using chemical weapons. What is going on
in Syria could affect the world for better or worse. All of us will see the outcome
and after affects will be.
Hi Cole,
ReplyDeleteLots of crazy stuff happening in Syria. I was hoping you could clarify some things for me. In your article you say that there evidence for a Genocide and that a majority is killing a minority. How would you place the over all conflict using Genocide watch's 8 stages of genocide? Also I thought the Assad Regime was the "minority" who was killing people who were part of the ethnic "majority" but not part of the ethnicity in power.