Read the Prologue "Humanity’s Orphan" to SYRIA BETRAYED: ATROCITIES, WAR, AND THE FAILURE OF INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY, by Alex J. Bellamy. In this work, Bellamy provides a forensic account of the world’s failure to protect Syrian civilians from mass atrocities. Drawing on interviews with key players, documents from the United Nations and other international organizations, and sources from the Middle East and beyond, he traces the missteps of the international response to Syria’s civil war.
