The World's Media Is Elsewhere As Syria Burns

Men walk past damaged buildings in Homs July 4, 2013. (REUTERS/Yazan Homsy)

Selective Amnesia -- Daily Star

With the world’s attention turned to the rapid and undeniably enthralling events in Egypt at the moment, Syria’s battlefields are being dangerously neglected by the media and those supposed friends of the revolution, which is allowing the regime to up the scale and intensity of its massacres across the country.

The fierceness of fighting in Syria has reached unprecedented levels. At the moment it is focused in the central city of Homs, the heartbeat of the revolution, which has been held by the rebels for two years. From the air and on the ground, the regime is trying with all its might to wrest back control of the city, capital of a strategically located province.

This week government forces also destroyed the city’s official records building, another apparent attempt to wipe out the city and its history.

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My Comment: I concur with this analysis. I have been following the Syrian civil war since the beginning .... and the slaughter and destruction in Syria has now reached unprecedented levels .... but the global press is elsewhere (NSA and Edward Snowden, Egypt, the Martin-Zimmerman trial, etc.).