Unrest in Syria

Title/Link: Dozens killed in Syria as Jordan king tells Assad togo

BBC

Date published: Nov. 15, 2011 Date accessed: Nov. 15, 2011

Summary: The unrest in Syria causes people to continue to lose their lives; troops were killed in the clashes with traitors near Jordan border. The neighboring Arab country’s king suggest a way out to the unrest: the president of Syria should step down from his power and saying that hurting the people would bring no good to the country. As a result, the supporters of President al-Assad were outraged, gathering outside the Jordanian embassy in Damascus late on Monday. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that three protesters climbed the fence and took down the Jordanian flag; however, the no one was injured because of the incident. The United Nation says that the protest in Syria took more than 3500 lives already. The Syrian government blames the gangs for the loss.

Response: The events that are currently happening in Syria can be related to the French Revolution. When people are unhappy about the government, they rise up and protest for what they think is right. The government will somehow put down the protestors and maybe shift the blame to other people to make the world believe that the government itself is not taking part in the killing. Something must be done to stop the unrest; like what was done in the French Revolution, the 3^rd Estate took down the ones that had power, the 1^st and 2^nd Estates. In this case, the government has the power, but not satisfying the majority of the population so the population should have the right to take out the government.

Vocabulary:

Defector

1.       more than 30 troops were killed in clashes with suspected army defectors

2.       a person who gives up allegiance to one state or political entity in exchange for allegiance to another

3.       The Russian defector was sentenced to death because of his actions.

Conspiracy

1.       it was illegal and vowed to overcome "conspiracies" against Damascus.

2.       an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.

3.       The teachers uncovered the conspiracy and suspended the participants.

Severely

1.       Syrian government has severely restricted access for foreign journalists.

2.       Harsh; unnecessarily extreme; serious

3.       His brain is severely damaged because he fell from a high place and landed on his head.