Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond by Peter J. Hoffman & Thomas G. Weiss

Author:Peter J. Hoffman & Thomas G. Weiss [Hoffman, Peter J. & Weiss, Thomas G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781442266148
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Syria: Endless Atrocities and Stillborn Humanitarianism

Many of the issues in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya arise again in Syria (map 6.3), where the civil war grew from local dissidents as part of the 2011 Arab Spring protest wave; anti-government agitation was directed at a long established authoritarian regime. The Assad family has ruled Syria since Hafez al-Assad, then defense minister, seized power in 1970. His son, Bashar, took over in June 2000 when his father died. In mid-March 2011, the first large-scale anti-government actions took place in the city of Daraa. Since then the initial uprising morphed into a modest, then full-blown civil war and then a regional and global proxy war. Humanitarian conditions reached deplorable levels and continue to deteriorate for the population of 23 million: by late 2016, estimates indicate close to a half-million dead, 6.3 million IDPs, 4.8 million refugees (mostly in Jordan and Turkey), and 13.5 million in need of assistance (including 4.9 million in hard-to-reach areas).25

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