Hey Bashar, don’t fucking make your people play dead while you send your fucking militia out to fucking mass murder them, you fucking asshole.

Ali el-Sayed fell to the floor and soaked himself in his brother’s blood as gunmen linked to the Assad regime murdered his family.

When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother’s blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

The Syrian boy tried to stop himself from trembling, even as the gunmen, with long beards and shaved heads, killed his parents and all four of his siblings, one by one.

The youngest to die was Ali’s brother, 6-year-old Nader. His small body bore two bullet holes — one in his head, another in his back.

“I put my brother’s blood all over me and acted like I was dead,” Ali told The Associated Press over Skype on Wednesday, his raspy voice steady and matter-of-fact, five days after the killing spree that left him both an orphan and an only child.

Read more @ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0530/Boy-played-dead-to-survive-Syrian-massacre

Hey Charles, don’t fucking use blood diamonds to fund a civil war that kills tens of thousands of people and funds mass rape and torture. Oh and Ratko Mladic was here first so you’re gonna have to be his bitch.

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands —Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and a once-powerful warlord, was sentenced on Wednesday to 50 years in prison over his role inatrocities committed in Sierra Leoneduring its civil war in the 1990s.

The judge presiding over the sentencing in an international criminal court near The Hague said Mr. Taylor had been found guilty of “aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history” and that the lengthy prison term underscored his position at the top of government during that period.

“Leadership must be carried out by example by the prosecution of crimes, not the commission of crimes,” the judge, Richard Lussick, said in a statement read before the court.

Mr. Taylor was the first head of state convicted by an international court since the Nuremberg trials after World War II.

Read more @ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/world/africa/charles-taylor-sentenced-to-50-years-for-war-crimes.html

Report from Al Jazeera English on the UN Condemnation of the Houla Massacre. Hey Assad, don’t kill your fucking people.