Syria’s war without end is a triumph for man’s inhumanity to man

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By The Canberra Times
Has any country had a more unfortunate history since the end of World War Two than Syria?
While some African nations, such as Angola, might be able to give the war-torn state a run for its money, it would have to be a close run thing.

Granted its independence from France, which had ruled the territory since 1920, in 1946, the new republic enjoyed three years of democracy before undergoing three separate coups in 1949.

This marked the beginning of a succession of dictatorships, interspersed with periods of military rule, that continues to the present day.

A loosely defined aggregation of widely disparate peoples, cultures and territories set out under the self-serving Sykes-Picot agreement to carve up the Turkish empire between Britain, France and Russia in 1916, Syria was always going to struggle to achieve unity.
Has any country had a more unfortunate history since the end of World War Two than Syria?

While some African nations, such as Angola, might be able to give the war-torn state a run for its money, it would have to be a close run thing.

Granted its independence from France, which had ruled the territory since 1920, in 1946, the new republic enjoyed three years of democracy before undergoing three separate coups in 1949.

This marked the beginning of a succession of dictatorships, interspersed with periods of military rule, that continues to the present day.

A loosely defined aggregation of widely disparate peoples, cultures and territories set out under the self-serving Sykes-Picot agreement to carve up the Turkish empire between Britain, France and Russia in 1916, Syria was always going to struggle to achieve unity.
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