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The U.N. should intervene to help stop the killing that is going on in Syria
Information: 1. The Syrian Uprising began last year when young school boys around the ages of 12-14 wrote the word "freedom" on their school walls. They didn't do this for any political reasons, just to be mischevious. When the government found out about the writing, they found and tortured the boys. All but one of the boys returned. This sparked nationwide protests. After a while, the Uprising turned into protests to overthrow the government. 2. Since the Uprisning began, more than 9,000 protestors and civilians have been killed. 3. Major countries like Russia have been suffering from the Uprising. Syria is one of the five largest buyers of Russian defense equipment, recieving 6% of all arms sales. Also, Russian oil companies have natural oil investments in Syria. The leaders of these companies fear that if power comes to the Uprising, they will lose these investments. 4. The Syrian Uprising is part of the "Arab Spring", which is the upheval in the Arab world that is going on now in which protestors are trying to overthrow their governments.

This is a picture of graffit written in arabic that translates to "Down With Bashir al-Assad" in English. This was written during the early part of the Uprising.