By writing this article, I would like to inform you on the syrian conflict.
I didn't know a lot of the situation in this country before I began to write, but I've done some research and it help me to learn a few.
First of all, the Syrian political regime is a parliamentary republic. The syrians vote often to elect their president, their representants. In Theory, it seems like a real democracy (even if both of executiv and legislativ powers are given to the same governement), but in facts there isn't a real democraty because president Hafez al hassad (the last president) ruled 30 years and the actual president (bachar el Hassad, his son...) has already ruled for 12 years.
The politcal opposition should be well supervise in this country which has the 12th biggest army of the world...
Since the begining of the year 2011, there has been some demonstrations against the actual president and for more democracy. Theses demonstrations belong to the movement of "the arabe spring". The actual president grants some social advanced and some rights like the one to demonstrate peacefully to please the people. But demonstrations continue and there are suppress with violence and blood. In some cities like Deraa, Hama, Homs which are the headquarters of contestation, the army has been used.
To explain these interventions, the president Bachar al Hassad denounces an international conspiration to destabilize the country, so the revolt of the population doesn't come from the syrian population but from others country. This argument has some echo in Syrie, and the governement which is nationalist use it widly.
But the situation is going worst, in december 2011, syrian NGO estimated that the repression cost five tausend lifes of civil people. In May 2012, The syrian office for humain right publish a new toll: 12000 civil would have been killed.
In front of this Civil war, the ONU condamn the political of the Syrie. An intervention armed, like in Lybia in the begining of the year, is in the mind of severals president of country member of the ONU council like France, but China and Russia keep their veto for an armed intervention. May be they have some interest selling guns and bullets to the libyan army.
The civil war in Syrie spreads now in Libanon, and it takes out again religious differencies between chiites, sunnites and christians.
