Government, during the arab spring of 2011. The spark came in the Southern City of daraa, where Security Forces beat a group of teenage boys. Their crime scrawling anti assad slogans on their school wall. From there, the protests spread, the regime cracked down violently, and fighting erupted. Its since grown into a full blown civil war, with the rebels seizing large chunks of territory. In all, more than 70,000 syrians have died. Russia its warships seen today docking in beirut before moving on to syria continues to supply arms to the syrian military. Other nations have called on assad to step down, but been reluctant to intercede. Today in brussels the European Union rejected a push to lift its embargo on arms to the rebels, over the objections of france and britain. Assad is still in place, he is still being strongly supplied and strengthened by others and we need to put pressure on to bring about the transition that is necessary for the syrian people, necessary for the stability of
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