On April 15th, 2011 reports from the Human Rights Watch stated that protesters in Syria are being tortured for protesting the government. Of the nineteen people that were interviewed by the Human Rights Watch, seventeen said that they were beaten during their arrest and also while being held as a detainee in Daraa. Not only were they victim to beatings, they also witnessed daily beatings in the prisons by the mukhabarat. Among those being beaten were women and children of all ages. Those interviewed also told Human Rights Watch that other detainees were subjected to other forms of torture such as electro-shock, beatings with cables and whips, starvation, hunger, and sleep deprivation.
This amount of brutality issued by the Syrian State Security Force is unnecessary and uncalled for. What more uncalled for is the lack of help that these protesters are receiving. In my opinion, the United Nations should be using the power that they displayed in helping to end the same type of abuse in Egypt to end this suffering. By having the United Nations step in and enforce the international policies against human rights violations, the United Nations would send a message to the rest of the world saying that human rights abuse will not be tolerated no matter where it happens. Earlier in the year, Secritary - General Ban Ki-moon was criticized for being slack on enforcing laws against human rights violations and promised that things would change during the year but one success is clearly not enough to end world human rights issues.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/15/syria-rampant-torture-protesters
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