Government urged to promote the removal of Assad regime

Minister Eamon Gilmore has been very active and very visible in promoting the right to protest and to fair treatment of Irish citizens in Egypt.

While I have no reason to criticise this, I can’t help comparing the severity of what has been happening in Egypt over the past few weeks with the extreme suffering of Syrian anti-government protesters which has been going on for several years.

I’m sure there are Irish Syrians who have been victims of the Assad regime, or whose families are enduring violence and extreme hardship in Syria and surrounding countries.