Can international law save the Syrian people

Syrian people The Syrian people are the inhabitants of the Syrian Arab Republic and their ancestors who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry (mainly Aramaic and Arab). The term also refers to the citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic, regardless of ancestry, mother tongue, ethnic identity, or culture. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years.

The Syrian people is split in between two identities, that is the Arabic identity and the Syriac identity, Muslims and Arabic speaking Christians describe themselves as Arabs while Aramaic speaking Christians majority and Muslims minority prefer to describe themselves as Syriacs or Arameans, also a few, mainly Syrian nationalists, describe themselves as only Syrians.

Vocabulary Ancestors: A person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. Mother tongue: The language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood. Linguistic: Relating to language or linguistics. Susceptible: Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing. Asphyxiating: A condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking.

The Current State of Syria Syria is more than a divided country with Assad on one side and the opposition on the other. The opposition itself consists of various factions, ranging from the Kurdish Supreme Committee to Islamic groups associated with Al-Qaeda. But beyond the people behind the conflict, the physical geography creates unique problems unseen in conflicts arising from the Arab Spring.

Tabler, who spent several years in Syria and around the Middle East, indicated the vast amount of space that exists away from urban centers. This leaves much of the land ungoverned and susceptible to extremist groups There is indeed a danger of the spill from neighboring countries inundating power vacuums within Syria itself.

Syria also has not signed the treaty on the International Criminal Court - the "Rome Statute" - that makes it a war crime to use "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices" in war. Neither has it signed the Convention Against Torture. Syria signed but never ratified the Convention on Biological Weapons. These treaties therefore do not apply.

The Syrian government has repeatedly broken the first of these commitments, and if it was responsible for the chemical attacks last week, then it has clearly broken the second as well. But the problem is that, legally, the Gas Protocol regulates only wars between states, not civil wars. It does not govern how a government behaves inside its own territory. In other words, under its current obligations Syria is forbidden from using gas against its neighbours but not against its own people. The Geneva Conventions are important, but they say nothing about chemical weapons.

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