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THIS TYPE OF PERSONALITY WOULD ACT LIKE ASSAD, THE DICK HEAD IN SYRIA, IF HE COULD

In a new escalation against freedom of expression and media work in Syria, the Office of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) in Damascus was raided on Thursday 16 February at... more

We, the members of the Mandaean community in the United States of America and their friends, are asking our government to take the moral, legal and historic responsibility to save the Iraqi Mandaean refugees in Syria and Jordan. More than 90% of them fled Iraq for good. Our hope is to resettle them in America as a persecuted group in order to save the future culture, traditions, and faith of the Mandaean community. 

Without the help of our government, the Mandaean people, who are without a country, and protection cannot defend themselves are headed towards annihilation.

Mandaeans are considered the smallest and most vulnerable ethno-religious minority in Iraq and Iran. We number fewer than 60,000 people in the world, scattered around the globe as a result of our intervention in Iraq. We follow the teachings of John the Baptist and practice baptism in flowing water as our central ritual. Our teachings expressly forbid us from carrying weapons, even for self-defense. Instead, the Ginza Raba, the chief Mandaean holy book, teaches us to oppose injustice bravely with words and knowledge, not iron. We therefore live our lives solely by peaceful means.

In November 2011, Syria started to plant landmines along its border with Lebanon. As Syria is not a party state of the Mine Ban Treaty, they are not held by an international treaty to stop. However, since these landmines are being used to kill their own people, it is a crime against humanity and must be stopped.

The CBC News reports that Syrian troops have been planting landmines to stop people from fleeing into Lebanon from the violence that has gripped their country since the beginning of the year. Syria is using these landmines to keep their terrified citizens from leaving and from preventing anyone outside from coming into the country. While a Syrian official claims that the landmines are being planted to prevent arms smuggling into the country, it does not justify their actions.

Regardless of the reason for using them, landmines carry not only immediate, but long term consequences with them. They are a brutal and unnecessary tactic as the people that will suffer the most from these landmines will be innocent civilians.

Killings, bombing, and terror in Norway, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Chechnya, Latin America, Spain, Japan, as well as government-sponsored terrorism in Syria, Libya, Yemen, and some... more