My last post was September of last year. I’m obviously not keeping up. Here are updates to posts from last year I'm publishing so I can move on to other things.
Syria June-July 2018
In early 2017 I watched a graphic documentary, “Cries of Syria.” I learned how the rebellion started in 2011 with the arrest and torture of 15 boys in the city of Daraa because they wrote graffiti on a school wall. The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt inspired them to write, “Doctor, you’re next,” referring to President al-Assad’s medical degree. One of the boys, 13 years old, died. His parents were told after their child’s mutilated body was returned to them, “you can always make more.”
