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‘A slowly unfolding disaster’
THE WASHINGTON POST
KHALIL ASHAWI/REUTERS) - A resident walks his bicycle through damage and debris on a street Deir al-Zor, eastern Syria November 29, 2013.Picture taken November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)
By Fred Hiatt, Monday, December 2, 12:00 PM
March 2011: Syrians demonstrate in favor of democracy. Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, responds with ferocity. By May, 920 Syrians have been killed.
Aug. 4, 2011: President Obama issues a “presidential study directive” that says preventing mass atrocities is “a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility. . . .”
“Governmental engagement on atrocities and genocide too often arrives too late, when opportunities for prevention or low-cost, low-risk action have been missed. . . . In the face of a potential mass atrocity, our options are never limited to either sending in the military or standing by and doing nothing.”
Aug. 18, 2011: Obama says, “For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.”
A White House fact sheet explains: “Our goal is to put an immediate stop to the Syrian government’s use of violence against civilians and its policies of mass arrests and torture.”
January 2012: The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the U.N. refugee agency, has registered 9,500 Syrians who have fled their country. By February, 7,500 Syrians have been killed.
April 23, 2012: Obama speaks at the Holocaust Museum. “[W]e have to remember that despite all the tanks and all the snipers, all the torture and brutality unleashed against them, the Syrian people still brave the streets. They still demand to be heard. They still seek their dignity. The Syrian people have not given up, which is why we cannot give up.
“And so with allies and partners, we will keep increasing the pressure, with a diplomatic effort to further isolate Assad and his regime, so that those who stick with Assad know that they are making a losing bet.”
April 26, 2012: Registered refugees number 50,015. Several times that many are internally displaced — inside Syria but no longer in their homes.
Aug. 20, 2012: President Obama holds a White House news conference . “On Syria, obviously this is a very tough issue,” he says. “I have indicated repeatedly that President al-Assad has lost legitimacy, that he needs to step down. So far, he hasn’t gotten the message.”
Aug. 30, 2012: There are 186,933 refugees.
Jan. 2, 2013: A report commissioned by the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) documents 59,648 Syrians killed.
Jan. 10: The number of refugees reaches 501,872.
April 5 : The number of refugees has doubled, to 1,034,654.
April 30: Obama speaks about Syria again during a news conference. “I think it’s important to understand that for several years now what we’ve been seeing is a slowly unfolding disaster for the Syrian people. And this is not a situation in which we’ve been simply bystanders to what’s been happening. My policy from the beginning has been that . . . the only way to bring stability and peace to Syria is going to be for Assad to step down. . . . Obviously, there are options that are available to me that are on the shelf right now that we have not deployed. And that’s a spectrum of options.”
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