Doctors Without Borders: President Bashar Assad

President Bashar Assad: The Syrian conflict, which began as a largely peaceful uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011, has triggered a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale, killing more than 100,000 people, driving nearly 7 million more from their homes and devastating the nations cities and towns. With the country now carved up into rebel- and regime-controlled areas, providing desperately needed food and medical aid has become a colossal and dangerous task, according to 660 News. The United Nations Security Council issued an appeal in early October for immediate access to all areas of the country to deliver humanitarian aid, including across conflict lines. Still, organizations that provide assistance continue to struggle to reach all the people who need it and BEIRUT A general director of Doctors Without Borders called Tuesday for greater access for humanitarian aid to Syrians suffering in their countrys civil war, and urged the international community to show the same urgency to help them as it did to address dismantling Syrias chemical weapons stockpile. You have an industrial-scale war, but you have a very kind of small-scale humanitarian response, said Christopher Stokes, a general directors for Doctors Without Borders. There is a recognition that greater humanitarian access is needed for life-saving assistance, but at the same time we dont see the mobilization. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.