Syria Solutions

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Regarding Syrian children and adult civilians being used by government military as human shields:
     It takes more than a UN List of Shame.

It takes more than U.S. proclamations of disgust and disfavor. 

     It might need Arab League intervention efforts now. 10 PM/EST update_AL offer rejected by Syria_6/13/12.

     It might require what other civilian armies of civil wars have used --non-national military helpers.

     The U. S. Department of State is expressing formal concerns and, most recently, strong disfavor. Solid action is needed, yet what kind? Could it start, at the least, with independent U. S. end to military helicopters now going to Syrian government from Russia. Helicopters are made by the same supplier for U. S. military, Department of Defense, according to reports* on this under-reported part of the Syria story. Hillary Clinton does give U. S. endorsement for Arab League plan.  

The most pressing human issue is mostly on the ground, as civilians, including children, are being arrested, tortured, and killed by Syrian military, and others are used as human shields.

     Yet, the facts still are not convincing the above entities what is not only do-able but workable. One hopes for some brainstorm among the international leaders...aware of inevitable intensification with any action that might be taken. I have edited this more in effort to face the realities, while still hoping the powers might go beyond talk to some, even one, action to push against, to thwart, or to seriously damage. 

Many are praying for the people of Syria.

Note on another side: Opposition forces and Christians in Syria: Qusayr (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian Maurice Bitar was killed in Qusayr, near the town of Homs where the Christian population - about a thousand people out of 10 thousand who lived there before the beginning of the violence - has been forced to flee after the 'ultimatum launched by an armed faction in the opposition forces led by General Abdel Salam Harba (see Fides 09/06/2012).

*CNN

*Examiner

Text copyright (c)2012 Opinari Writers

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The Value of a Name - Mogama

A good name is more desirable than great riches; 

to be esteemed is better 

than silver or gold

(Proverbs 22:1 NIV).

Cover by Adazing.com

by MOGAMA

From his book

"If you're ever put at gunpoint, and the gunman says, 'Your name or  your money,' give the robber your money and keep your name, especially if it's a meaningful, good name.

"That's how much people should cherish their names. Slave masters must have known the value of personal names to identify and esteem a people. That's why one of the first things a slave master did was to replace the name of his slave. That new name helped to purge the slave's memory of personal value, and that began to reduce the slave to little more than the master's property.

"If loss of name devalues a person, then there is little difference between a slave with a foreign name and a refugee with a fake name."

From Refugee Was My Name, revolution violence, Pub. 2012, Opine Publishing. 

(c) 2011 Mogama

Change

Faith is much more demonstrated in going where we do not know than sitting where we have been used to.

~ Mogama

Mogama (M.G. Matally) is finishing his forthcoming book: Refugee Was My Name, a personal journal of the Liberian civil war and the internally displaced and refugees of Liberia, from 1989.