This is another country that is undergoing massive strife, as the rebels take on the government forces. It is amazing how the Middle Eastern leaders, without ever having held genuine elections, seem to feel that they can cling onto power forever.

What is more frightening, in cases like this, is when they use their military weapons against their own people and you read horrific stories of snipers for example dragging women to the top of buildings and throwing them off to their deaths, and then shooting husbands or boyfriends that come and try to retrieve the bodies. Whole families have been executed and despite all of this, the Russian government led by Putin, continues to support Syria. The UN Peace delegation led by Kofi Annan, has given up which has annoyed Russia because they can now no longer pretend that there is actually a peace process going on, which has been their excuse for supporting the Syrian government. Approximately 80 to 100 people die a day, most of them being shot in the head at point blank range and sadly, and because of Russian support at the United Nations, nothing has been done.