Laying Down Their Lives – Human Shield Formed to Protect Syria

Syrians from all walks of life have joined a human shield campaign to help protect the country from potential foreign military action.A group of people, including artists and athletes, participated in the campaign dubbed “Over our Dead Bodies” on Monday.The participants are shielding key facilities in the capital, Damascus, pledging to stand their ground until the military threats are stopped or they are killed.The organizers of the campaign said that they have received calls from all over the world asking for permission to join the movement. The campaign comes as amid threats of foreign military intervention in Syria.On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus categorically rejected having had any role in the chemical attack.The Syrian government announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.MORE>>+++ZenGardner.com



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