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Syria, 22 months into its uprising, presents an unconscionable picture.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations special representative for Syria,
summed up the disaster in a leaked report
to the Security Council on Jan. 29. He spoke of “cities that look like
Berlin in 1945.” He decried the 60,000 killed, the massacres, the
700,000 refugees (rising to one million in a few months), the more than
two million internally displaced and the tens of thousands of detainees.
He warned of neighbors including Jordan and Lebanon collapsing under a
further flood of refugees.
“I am sorry if I sound like an old, broken record,” Brahimi told the
Security Council. “But I seriously don’t see where else one should start
or end except in saying that things are bad and getting worse, the
country is breaking up before everyone’s eyes; there is no military
solution to this conflict — at least not one that will not destroy Syria
completely and destroy also the nation of Syria; Syrians cannot
themselves start a peace process, their neighbors are not able to help
them; only the international community may help.”
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