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Syrians Are Dying. World Turns Its Back

I remember reading the book " We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda " and finding it incredulous that with all the information readily available that a genocide was imminent that the world, including the United States sat back and allowed close to 1 million people to die by stick, stone and fire at the hands of their fellow countrymen. Sure a host of the world's government officials later on when the coast was clear expressed regret and sorrow for what happened, but that did nothing to comfort the pregnant women who were disemboweled and their babies who were bayoneted, or the many who were packed into churches side by side with their children and forced to watch them die as the marauders set the building aflame. A similar scene is occurring right now in Syria, and like Rwanda the world's governments are well aware of what's going on but don't have the guts to step in to do something about it. Close to 70...