Vigil for Peace

See also about the vigil: Politics of international aid and Syria (22/3/2014) (this confirms earlier article, of 2/2/2014, by Tim Anderson: Syria: 'Human Rights Watch', key player in the manufacture of propaganda for war and foreign intervention), Human Rights Watch squinting on Syria(25/3/2014).

The conflict in Syria has become the worst humanitarian crisis_{#fnSubj1" id="txtSubj1">1} of our time. Friday 15 March 2014 marks the third anniversary of the crisis, three years of failure by the international community to end the appalling suffering. The Syrian people cannot wait any longer.

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#fnSubj1" id="fnSubj1">1. #txtSubj1">⇑ The estimated death toll since March 2011 is 130,000 Syrians killed. As terrible as this is, the death toll from the Iraqi conflict since 1990 has been far worse. Iraq was attacked and bombed in 1991 and invaded in 2003, after which a sectarian civil war was deliberately fomented by the occupiers. Sanctions, which were imposed upon Iraq from 1990, even denied medicine to sick Iraqi children and food to starving Iraqi children. As a result of these criminal actions by the United States and its "Coalition of the Willing" allies, including Australia, 1.3 million Iraqis sought refuge in Syria, according to Wikipedia. Had the Syrian Army, with the support of the Syrian people and Syria's allies, not fought so effectively against the terrorist mercenary invaders, the Syrian toll would be much higher. If Syria had been defeated, it would now be suffering sectarian killings and the the death toll would have been much closer to that suffered by Iraq. This toll is estimated to be at least many hundreds of thousands. One estimate puts the death toll as high as 3.3 million.