As U.S. Deliberates, Syria Human Rights Abuses Mounting -- Bloomberg
Syrian cities have been razed to the ground. Doctors operate without anesthesia. Children are raped and murdered. Houses are burned with families inside.
“This is the reality of Syria today,” Valerie Amos, the top United Nations humanitarian aid official, told the UN Security Council yesterday in the first of three testimonies.
Civilians are bombed while waiting in line for bread, she said. Waste is piling up, there is often no running water and, with summer nearing, there is a high risk of a cholera outbreak. Amos described a lawless country plunged into chaos more than two years into a bloody civil war pitting President Bashar al- Assad’s regime against rebel forces seeking his ouster.
Even so, descriptions of hardships confronting the Syrian people “cannot even begin to give you the real picture of the horrors being meted out every day,” Amos said.
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