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Has the UN simply failed in Syria, or is it complicit in the regime's crimes?
Syrian children huddle around a fire during winter season in Idlib, Syria on 30 January 2021 [Muhammed Said/Anadolu Agency]
February 6, 2021 at 1:13 pm
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, the conflict rages on with no apparent end in sight. The role of the United Nations, the international organisation created to keep the peace and promote human rights in the world, has clearly been a dismal failure. Whilst no one claims that the Syrian conflict is the death knell for the UN, it is becoming increasingly difficult to imagine how the organisation can move forward from here. A litany of failures by the organisation has resulted in the Syrian people feeling abandoned by the international community. An argument could be made that the UN did not simply fail, but is complicit in the murder of Syrians on a huge scale.