I got this from Amnesty International:
Dear Tracy,
Devastating brutality. Shattered families, shattered futures. Syria is descending further into chaos -- a human rights catastrophe in the making.
"They killed my sons, the dearest things I had... How can a mother endure such pain?" The words of one mother interviewed by Amnesty researcher Donatella Rovera after her three sons were dragged from their home, brutally killed and burned.
She is one of many mothers in Syria who right now are facing the unendurable. And her story is just one of many heartbreaking, firsthand accounts of cold-blooded killings and destruction gathered by Amnesty International on the ground in Syria , documented in the new report Deadly Reprisals.
The bloodshed must end. There are no easy solutions. But one thing is certain -- there must be accountability for these attacks on Syria's civilians.
Urge U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call for UN Security Council action on Syria, while there is still hope.
There is much more that world leaders can do to stop the wanton assault
on Syrian civilians before the crisis deteriorates even further,
including:
Devastating brutality. Shattered families, shattered futures. Syria is descending further into chaos -- a human rights catastrophe in the making.
"They killed my sons, the dearest things I had... How can a mother endure such pain?" The words of one mother interviewed by Amnesty researcher Donatella Rovera after her three sons were dragged from their home, brutally killed and burned.
She is one of many mothers in Syria who right now are facing the unendurable. And her story is just one of many heartbreaking, firsthand accounts of cold-blooded killings and destruction gathered by Amnesty International on the ground in Syria , documented in the new report Deadly Reprisals.
The bloodshed must end. There are no easy solutions. But one thing is certain -- there must be accountability for these attacks on Syria's civilians.
Urge U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call for UN Security Council action on Syria, while there is still hope.
There is much more that world leaders can do to stop the wanton assault
on Syrian civilians before the crisis deteriorates even further,
including:- Freezing the assets of President Bashar al-Assad and other senior Syrian government officials
- Ensuring an effective arms embargo to stop the flow of weapons to the Syrian government
- Referring the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Syria's people are crying out for our help. There is more we can do -- and it's time to act.
For peace and justice,
Sanjeev Bery
Advocacy Director, Middle East & North Africa
Amnesty International USA
P.S. Join us tomorrow for an exclusive inside account of the Syrian crisis from Amnesty researcher Donatella Rovera, who recently returned from the country. Get your questions ready -- the live online chat will run at
amnestyusa.org/amnestylive from Noon-1PM Eastern/9-10AM Pacific on Friday, June 15.
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