Assad Slaughtering Syrian Christians

ICC Note:
“Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s security forces last week killed Husam al Murra, a Syrian Christian who had joined the Syrian Free Army, which is fighting to topple the regime in Damascus,” the Stonegate Institute reports.
By Hani Bader
2/27/2012 Syria (Stonegate Institute) – Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s security forces last week killed Husam al Murra, a Syrian Christian who had joined the Syrian Free Army, which is fighting to topple the regime in Damascus.
Assad is angry with the Christians in his country because most of them have refused to support his atrocities against the Syrian people.
He is also angry with them because many Christians have played a major role in relief work to help the victims of Assad’s bloody crackdown on his opponents.
At the beginning of the uprising, Assad’s government forced leaders of the Christian community in Syria to hold public events in support of the regime. The leaders were instructed to pledge their loyalty to Assad and condemn the opposition as a “bunch of terrorists backed by the Zionists and the US.”
But as Assad’s forces stepped up their massacres and repression of the people, most Christians began speaking out against the regime, especially on Facebook and other social media networking.
The killing of al Murra highlights the growing plight of Syria’s Christian minority, who make up less than 10% of the population.
This is a minority that seems to be caught between the hammer and anvil: Assad is persecuting and killing Christians, and Christians fear that if Muslim extremists come to power, they anyhow will be forced to relocate to the US and Europe.
The killing of the young man shows that Assad does not distinguish between one opponent and another in Syria — Muslims or Christians.
Al Murra is not the first Syrian Christian to be killed by Assad’s security forces since the beginning of the popular uprising nearly a year ago.
In recent weeks, several other Christian men have been shot and killed in different parts of the country. One of the victims was a priest from the city of Hama, who was killed while trying to provide humanitarian and medical aid to people injured by Syrian army gunfire.
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