Alan A.
Harry's place
26 July 10
Syria, of course, is a dictatorship where dissidents are arrested and tortured, where no freedom of speech or assembly exists, where Kurds are massacred. The regime killed an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 civilians in its own city of Hama in 1982. Syria supports terrorist groups attacking in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and for many years Turkey. Syria has imposed an imperialist yoke on Lebanon, a country that never threatened it. Its media feature the most vicious anti-Western and antisemitic propaganda. B. Rubin The Truth About Syria
Albarn proudly boasts:
Gorillaz have become the first ever big British band to play in Damascus in Syria.
Damon Albarn, Bashy, Kano and former Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, were among those who performed a one-off show in the Syrian capital on Sunday.
Damon told Newsbeat it was something he’d wanted to do for some time: “I’m surprised that no one has ever come here before.
“For us it’s just a wonderful experience”
The tour has an important political message:
Damon told Newsbeat why he chose pollution as a theme: “I think the world is becoming like a plastic beach. It’s not a prediction, it’s something that exists now.
“We’ve got to accept that it’s got to be cool to recycle.”
Here is the Wikipedia page summarising the human rights situation in Syria:
The human rights record of the Syrian Arab Republic has been found lacking by a number of different sources.
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