Matthew Franklin Cooper writes:
Over the past two weeks, the town
of Rableh in Syria, home to over 12,000 people, most of them Christians, was
being held under siege by FSA insurgents. They would not allow in either food
or medical supplies, so those inside were subsisting on bread and water, and
could not treat their wounded and dying. Anyone daring to leave the town would
be shot at by insurgent snipers, as would anyone attempting to bring food or
water into the town. Only earlier
today were the Syrian regulars able to chase the insurgents from Rableh,
and allow for the infrastructure of the town to be repaired.
Progressive Catholic
and evangelical
voices had been calling for some international attention to the situation in
Rableh. However, I could find no secular sources outside Russia
Today, The Voice of Russia and the Canadian National
Post which would even touch the subject. It is not one which fits in
with the preordained Western media narrative of the hip, peaceful demonstrators
being mown down senselessly by the bloodthirsty, iron-fisted Assad regime. But
this incident, and the lack of coverage, is indicative that a good deal more is
going on in Syria than we are being allowed to see. If we truly want to aid the
causes of peace and human rights in Syria today, we need to look far more
carefully before we leap toward actions we may have good cause to regret.
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