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Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be address

Hey, no one is without powers. Ours are very limited in situations like that, but amnesty international usually provides a set of honoraries that can be addressed in situations like that, as well as in depth information about the case, in this case: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/2603/2015/en/ Of course, writing someone is useless most of the time, but within the powers we all have is also the power to create awareness for a situation of massive injustice.

corndoge 11y ago
Millions of people being aware of Khartabil's situation doesn't mean anything if he's executed. Preventing that is the goal. It cannot be accomplished without force, or threat of force, or some other form of pressure that only world governments have the capacity to apply. And we are not any of those.
- maqr 11y ago
  We (the people) should probably be at least one of the governments. I don't know how these decisions are actually made, but I would think there'd be at least one government with one military team that would willingly rescue him. If anyone is in the military, what's the feeling when these kinds of things happen? It seems like there should be brave people volunteering for those kinds of rescue missions where someone really needs their help.
  - xlm1717 11y ago
    I imagine they feel similarly powerless. Sending brave people in there would necessarily force a military confrontation with Russia, which I think everyone would agree is a very bad idea.
tomjen3 11y ago
This thread has been linked from a front page thread, sorry to reply so late. According to Amnesty the letter writing campaign matters, because the government knows they can't hide what they are doing (and even though Assad is especially horrible, his regime must try to hide this, otherwise why sentence him in secret?) when sacks of mail starts to flow in from the entire world.

corndoge 11y ago

Millions of people being aware of Khartabil's situation doesn't mean anything if he's executed. Preventing that is the goal. It cannot be accomplished without force, or threat of force, or some other form of pressure that only world governments have the capacity to apply. And we are not any of those.

maqr 11y ago
We (the people) should probably be at least one of the governments. I don't know how these decisions are actually made, but I would think there'd be at least one government with one military team that would willingly rescue him. If anyone is in the military, what's the feeling when these kinds of things happen? It seems like there should be brave people volunteering for those kinds of rescue missions where someone really needs their help.
- xlm1717 11y ago
  I imagine they feel similarly powerless. Sending brave people in there would necessarily force a military confrontation with Russia, which I think everyone would agree is a very bad idea.

tomjen3 11y ago

This thread has been linked from a front page thread, sorry to reply so late. According to Amnesty the letter writing campaign matters, because the government knows they can't hide what they are doing (and even though Assad is especially horrible, his regime must try to hide this, otherwise why sentence him in secret?) when sacks of mail starts to flow in from the entire world.