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The time has come for world leaders to find a solution to end the horrific carnage and barbaric reign of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The civilized world can no longer sit back and believe it's someone else’s problem. That approach was attempted with devastating results before both world wars.
The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, to dethrone the tyrannical dictator has claimed over 400,000 lives, according to a Feb. 2017 Amnesty International report. And that total grows every day.
However, that number may not include the 13,000 prisoners the regime has executed in Saydnaya Prison over the past five years. Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs for the U.S. State Department, told USA Today 50 people a day are being hung at the prison.
This kind of genocidal slaughter can only lead to more horrific and diabolical thinking as it did in Nazi Germany in World War II.
Regrettably, Assad’s plans came to light May 15. The New York Times reported Assad is constructing crematoriums near the notorious Saydnaya Prison where political prisoners are held and tortured.
“We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place inside the prison," Jones told the Times. "If you have that level of production of mass murder, using a crematorium would allow you to handle that number of corpses coming out of the prison.”
USA Today compared photos of the prison from 2013 and 2017. They show outside the building construction of large discharge stacks, probable air intake vents and a probable firewall.
None of this is any surprise to former Syrian Army Colonel Al-Hammadi, now a spokesman for the northern division rebel group. Speaking with ABC News from Turkey May 16, he said “Satan can take lessons from the Assad regime.”
Consequently, Assad finally discovered the same problem that led to the down fall of Adolph Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich. Once you ramp up the killing of your political opponents, prisoners of war, traitors or those pesky Israelis, bodies start becoming a problem.
Individual graves take to long to dig, mass graves are easily found, and the stench of decaying corpses has a tendency to draw unwanted attention. Massive, well run, efficient crematoriums can solve those problems very easily as history has shown. Plus, ash can be disposed of simply in an arid dessert country like Syria.
Most news outlets carried some type of report regarding the crematorium situation, but where is the out cry from world leaders? Where is the call to action?
Nikki Haley, American ambassador to the United Nations, told the New York Times, “The attempt to cover up mass murder in the Assad crematorium is reminiscent of the 20th century’s worst offenses against humanity.”
Notice she did not mention Nazi Germany. Notice she did not mention it happened in World War II. Notice she did not say who, or what religious sect was being exterminated. Why? Because she might offend Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. That would not have been the politically correct thing to do.
Therein lies the problem. Being politically correct will not solve this problem. We all know a true brutal dictator will do anything possible to hold on to his power and control the masses at any cost.
In 2013 Assad used chemical weapons and the world turned its back. President Obama drew a red line against using such weapons, but quickly erased it before tripping over it. When Assad used chemical weapons in April, President Trump fired 59 Tomahawk missiles in to the base where the chemical attack was launched, and everyone was happy.
Amazing how history has a way of repeating itself. No one thought it could ever happen again, but here we are.
No one questions the dreadful silence more than Israel. The Israeli Times reported, Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s Yesh Atid party, paralleled the failure to protect the Jews during World War II, and our knowledge of Syria’s crematoriums today. He said, “Why did the world know what was happening, but do nothing? Well now we know, and we’re not doing anything!”