Syrian troops kill 6-year-old fleeing into Jordan

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The boy, killed in the early hours Friday, was the first Syrian shot to death by border guards while trying to escape into neighboring Jordan from the bloodshed of their homeland's 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. The slaying underlined not only the dangers of the passage, but the fine line Syria's neighbors have to tread in trying to help Syrians while avoiding being dragged into the conflict

"The criminal Bashar is the reason," she said, slapping her face with her fists as she wept. She wore a veil over her face and a traditional Muslim head-to-toe robe. "Bashar is killing his people and the whole world is watching and doing nothing

The Jordanian border official said he believed that amid the firing, the boy was specifically targeted because he was closest to the fence. "It looks like a sniper targeted him to scare the others," the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

The whole shooting appeared to be an ambush by the Syrian troops, who were likely tipped off to the escape plan by an informer in Daraa, said the two FSA members who helped organize the dash for the border.

@white_swan53 Said


I can not imagine living that sort of day to day life.

@sAeGeSpAeNe Said

It is not much different than what I had to witness while stationed in Berlin, back in the 1960s. The city was divided by the wall, and those who sought freedom in the West were often made victims. The East Germans had patrol boats on the waters, armed with machine-guns, and would fire on anyone trying to swim to the other side. Elaborate set-ups with mine-fields, and trip-wires, strung between posts of a barbed-wire fence, would trigger an automatic spray of bullets on anyone attempting to get across...

Evil is as evil does......

@white_swan53 Said

All because a couple of a** wipes are having a power struggle , right?
Does 'evil' even come close to describing the reality of what you seen and what these people talked about in the article are living though ? Is there even such a word that can ?

@sAeGeSpAeNe Said

I don't know the answer to your question.

Unless you are one of the oppressed, you really haven't got a clue as to the nature of the 'reality' that they experience, and the only ones that could tell you, with any degree of certainty, about the living conditions and how it feels to live under the thumb of a tyrant,... those people are either dead or effectively silenced.

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"The criminal Bashar is the reason," she said, slapping her face with her fists as she wept. She wore a veil over her face and a traditional Muslim head-to-toe robe. "Bashar is killing his people and the whole world is watching and doing nothing