Four years ago today protestors across Syria staged a 'Day of Rage' as the agitation of the Arab Spring spread across the Middle East.
In a country that knew little about political dissent the protests were small, numbering from a few hundred to a few thousand. The reaction of Bashar al-Assad’s government was to blame events on forces hostile to Syria, to lock up activists, and to shoot to kill.
Now there are over 210,000 people dead, half of whom are civilians, over 30,000 detained or disappeared, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and 11.4 million refugees, half of which are children, according to the UN.
