An article in the American Foreign Policy magazine said that the violence initiated by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not ended yet, and will not end for decades to come, and that it has become impossible to count the victims of this violence.
The article - written by Lebanese-British journalist Oz Qatarji on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the first protests against the Syrian regime in the capital, Damascus and Aleppo, in March 2011 - stated that the violence initiated by al-Assad constituted the largest human-made human disaster since World War II.
He added that the violence of the Syrian regime reached an incomprehensible level, to the point that the United Nations officially abandoned the attempt to count the number of dead in January 2014, after its last attempt to estimate the number issued by the then special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura, which was estimated at 400 thousand Killed.
A terrifying human cost
Qatarji pointed out that it is impossible to know the actual human cost, which includes those who later died from their wounds or died from diseases that could not be prevented, or died of starvation as a result of the brutal siege, or hundreds of thousands of Syrians who disappeared, were executed, or were tortured to death in the death camps. Affiliate to the system.
He added that the circle of suffering goes beyond the dead, as there are rape victims, victims of torture, children with psychological trauma, widows and displaced people, "it is a list without end."
He said that the world is no longer interested in counting, but the least that can be done by those outside the conflict is to talk about the exact initiation of violence and name the perpetrators.
Qatarji went on to say that the only promise that the Assad regime has made is to implement the slogan of its militia to stir fear in the hearts of the Syrian people, "Assad or no one. Assad or we burn the country."
Syria is a burnt rubble
Syria has now ended up in burning rubble, with Bashar al-Assad sitting at its summit, parts of which are ruled by militias backed by Russia and Iran.
Aside from "Assad or no one," the Syrian people now have Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Russian Vladimir Putin, who are "interlocking warlords who depend on daily violence to maintain their influence."
The writer emphasized that the regime's allies in Iran and Russia will not finance the reconstruction, and instead are looking to the European Union and others to pay the bill for destroying the country's infrastructure, indicating that the West will not open its coffers and will not drop the sanctions without making progress towards the political transition that has torched the country by the Assad regime. To avoid it.
He said that Assad is not interested in reconstruction, but rather is interested in rebuilding his security situation and continuing to use aid as a weapon of war, "something that the United Nations has shamefully enabled him from its office in Damascus from day one."