Syria the Killing Continues and No Body Cares

Defying Crackdown, Syria Protesters Return to Streets in Stalemated Contest of Wills
The government and its opponents in Syria claimed victories on Friday in a relentless contest of wills whose stalemate may deprive both of a decisive blow in the two-month uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
There is no oil and the European countries support this fanatic secular government.

The government said it had subdued some of the most restive locales — namely Baniyas on the Mediterranean coast and Dara’a in the south — after deploying tanks and soldiers and arresting thousands. In the face of growing international condemnation and a reeling economy, though, it offered at least the facade of compromise, saying it would begin what it called a national dialogue next week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/middleeast/14syria.html?_r=1&