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Jamal Saidi / Reuters
Syrian children carry pictures of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khatib and hold candles during a protest in front of the United Nations building in Beirut on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The Syrian boy, who activists say was tortured and killed by security forces, has emerged as a powerful symbol in protests against the rule of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad which have been met with a bloody crackdown.
From NBC News:
BEIRUT — The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that pierced the skin of a small torso and went straight toward the kidney; and finally, the broken neck and severed penis of a 13-year-old boy, his mangled body contorted on a plastic sheet. Full story
Richard Engel joins msnbc to discuss the latest crackdown on anti-government protesters in Syria.
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I am heart broken. There are so many things I could say. I am angry and broken to hear such horriific torture happened to a young child. And to hear of more children taken and treated in the same manner. Please let there be a God somewhere to comfort them. No child should ever know and experience what that innocent Beautiful boy went through. Where is the humanity in people?!? I hope that the people who has done this, the ones who did this.. looking at the boys eyes as he cried.. die a million deaths!
God! America WAKE UP and stop living in the bubble we created to keep as spoiled and selfish.
don't call this "regime change." That is an old cliche used by dictators in self preservation. It is not unilateral and indeed justified.
Doctor Martin Luther King said it best from his jail cell with a letter. He wrote a letter after he was arrested for protesting and marching. He said that any law that is not just must be challenged. Assad may be a sovereign, but, he is not a just sovereign. In this new world, there is no longer room for dictators.
"You can blow out a candle, but, you can't blow out a fire....." [Peter Gabriel's "Biko"]