Please send sample letter requesting the UN’s presence in Syria against the Bashar al-Assad terror regime
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BACKGROUND | FROM CARE2
Beheaded Woman’s Body Found in Syria: Is a Civil War Impending?
It has been six months since the uprising began in Syria when a group of teenagers were arrested for scrawling anti-regime graffiti in the southern city of Deraa. Protesters have demonstrated peacefully and called for President Bashar al-Assad to step down and institute democratic reforms — and been met with not only soldiers but tanks firing at them. At least 2,700 have died according to the United Nations. Now, with no sign of any sort of meaningful dialogue and no unified opposition with clear objectives, the fear is that the Syrian revolution will become a civil war. The creation of an exiled “Syrian national council” was announced last week in Istanbul. The council hopes to serve as a transitional body in the way of Libya’s National Transitional Council, which, now that Muammar el-Gaddafi has been ousted, has become the legitimate government of Libya. But the Syrian council faces, among many other obstacles, a huge credibility gap. Meanwhile, brutalities against protesters and civilians continue at an alarming rate. At the end of last week, a young woman, headless and mutilated, was found. Syrian security agents are thought to be responsible for her torture and death. According to Amnesty International, the young woman, 18-year-old Zainab al-Hosni, was from the central city of Homs and is believed to be the first woman to die in Syrian custody. Yesterday, squadrons of tanks surrounded Homs, which has been under siege for a week and faces shortages of food, water and electricity. Syrian security forces said they have killed four soldiers who were attempting to escape; reports that soldiers had deserted and were setting up ambushes for the Syrian military have led to a heightened armed presence near Homs. Dozens of soldiers have also defected in Hama, in central Syria, and in Latakia on the Mediterranean coast, say activists. Commenting on how the uprising in Syria is changing from peaceful protests to a possible armed conflict, the Guardian‘s Simon Tisdall says:
The belief that revolution could prevail through peaceful moral suasion and popular pressure was always misplaced, argued Gary Gambill in Foreign Policy. “There are no plausible circumstances under which a democratic transition would constitute a rational choice for the embattled dictator,” he said.
“The crux of the problem is Syria’s unique minority-dominated power structure … Alawite solidarity renders the loyalty of the internal military-security apparatus nearly inviolable, enabling Assad to mete out a level of repression far beyond the capacity of most autocrats.” To surrender power would be suicidal for Assad, he argued.
Tisdall also quotes Al-Jazeera’s special correspondent Nir Rosen, who was recently in Syria. A senior opposition figure said plainly to Rozen that ”In the end we cannot be free without weapons.”
The Syrian government has continued to claim that foreign conspirators are at the root of the unrest and that it is fighting against “armed thugs” who have killed more than 700 police officers and security forces. Speaking at the United Nations on Monday, Syria’s foreign minister, Walid Mouallem, accused the West of trying to foment “total chaos” in Syria and undermine the balance between the country’s many religious groups: “How can we otherwise explain media provocations, financing and arming religious extremism?” Mouallem said. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the violent crackdown of civilian protesters by Assad’s regime. But the council’s membership is divided between China, Russia and other emerging nations and the US and European nations who seek further action beyond the sanctions already in place.
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WHOM TO CONTACT
Public Inquiries
Visitors Services Department of Public Information
United Nations Headquarters Room GA-1B-57
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-963-4475
Fax: 212-963-0071
Emails: inquiries@un.org , dpi_dis_unit@un.org
CNN Webform HERE
BBC Webform HERE
***You must modify and shorten the letter for the webforms, which limit the characters allowed.
SAMPLE LETTER | COURTESY VICTOR S. POPALICIU
Dear Peacekeepers,
All free people from the world and the Syrian Nation demand the United Nations to stop the massacre of thousands of innocent Syrians who ask for freedom, justice, and peace!
Since 1945, the creation date of the UN as a peace-keeping entity that encompasses the world, this international organisation is the shield for nations against, war, injustice, and tyranny. Today the heart of the Syrian people is bleeding, thousands of innocent people – children, women, and men – are murdered in the streets and in their homes by the criminals sent by the Bashar al-Assad terror regime. The UN must take appropriate action to monitor and quell the human rights abuses that occur daily.
Millions of Syrians, indeed the whole Syrian nation, demand freedom, peace, justice, and a chance for their children to grow happily and freely in Syria, children who now need the shield of the UN peacekeepers. Their parents fight in the streets of Syria armed only with idealism and dreams against bullets and tanks. They fight and sacrifice their lives to protect their children and to protect Syrian aspirations of freedom! The Syrian Nation and all free people from around the world demand the UN to take action and protect Syrian people now.
In June 1945, the UN announced to the world that “future generations must be protected against the calamity of war and the fundamental human rights must be respected all over the world.” The Syrian nation is part of this future generation, it has the right to be free! The Syrian Nation, like all Nations, has the right to live in peace and justice!
History’s wind of freedom, the wind of change – the heart – beats in millions of people who have sacrificed their lives for centuries to be free and can be heard today in Syria. Millions of Syrian heroes fight today with empty hands against bullets and tanks, against the terror regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian Nation needs the UN shield NOW!
Thank you for reading this vital request.
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stop kilning Syrians people . The world should help Them. They deserve free dome.
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