Hundreds of Syrians have died in the days since Moscow and Beijing blocked the UN resolution backing the Arab League’s plan for President Bashar al-Assad to step aside. Among the dead are not just those fighting pro-regime forces, but scores of ordinary civilians. These people would probably have died regardless. But their deaths, the more than 5,000 that went before, and those yet to come, render even more incomprehensible Russia and China’s decision to block condemnation of the Assad regime’s vicious hold on power.
自莫斯科和北京方面否決聯合國(UN)針對敘利亞的決議以來,已有數百名敘利亞人喪生(這項決議支持阿拉伯聯盟(Arab League)提出的、要求敘利亞總統巴沙爾•阿薩德(Bashar al-Assad)下臺的計劃)。在這些人中,不僅有與政府軍戰鬥的人,還包括數十名平民。這些人或許無論如何都會死去。但他們的死亡,以及之前5000多起、未來還會發生的死亡,使人更加令人難以理解,爲什麼俄羅斯和中國要阻止人們譴責阿薩德政權對權力的罪惡掌控?