Column — After Assad's Overthrow, Will Syria's Suffering End, or Begin Anew?
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The Syrian government has been overthrown and dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow. Assad, and before him, his father Hafez al-Assad, ruled Syria with extreme brutality for over 50 years. “Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale,” said Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard in a statement following the government’s collapse at the hands of several rebel factions. “This historic opportunity must be now seized and decades of grave human rights…
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