In Syria, a bloody civil war is laying waste to some of the world s most magnificent ancient cities.

In the blood and drama of the events, however, we might miss a significant element of the story.

That terrible human tragedy took us back to the gory events of 26 February 1992.

If Europe s vigilance breaks down, violent conflict will become a possibility once again.

Internet companies close accounts and delete gory videos they share information with law enforcement.

Thousands of miles from the bloody fields of France, 26 young New Zealanders who died there are remembered on a granite cross.

Our purpose is to urge all peace loving peoples not to forget that bloody war or to allow such a tragedy ever to happen again.

These are people who, like the Hitler Youth, turned over their bloody page of history and never looked back.

The bloody battle for control of Syria between forces loyal to President Al Assad and the factions that are opposed to his rule entered its third year in March.

Although China clearly instigated the bloody border clashes, America sided with Mao s regime.

Nour still has hope for salvation he has kept his dreams and plans for the future alive despite the tragedies he has bore witness to during the war.

Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century?

Both sides accept that working with local partners for peaceful democratic change today is the best way to avoid violent revolution or military action tomorrow.

The bloody attacks in London and Sharm el Sheikh clearly demonstrate that terrorists continue to commit acts which should be unanimously condemned and whose eradication requires concerted action by the international community.

Quoting from advocacy material of the Bangsamoro people, it was stated that Only a war against poverty, injustice and discrimination can heal the festering wounds of conflicts and scorch the ground that breeds terrorism.

With Iraq rapidly descending into bloody chaos, the prospects for holding successful democratic elections in January, as the US and the Iraqi interim government have promised, look bleak.

With an eye on the events of the American Revolution forty years earlier, revolutionary leaders began bloody wars of independence against Spain, whose armies were ultimately unable to maintain control.

Though FUNAI identified the area as an Indigenous homeland back in 1993, the land hasn't yet been completely handed over because of a series of disputes and deadly conflict between rice farmers and indigenous people.

The bloody end to the schoolhouse hostage crisis in North Ossetia, and recent clashes in Georgia between government troops and separatist forces, have put the troubled Black Sea region on the front pages of newspapers once again.

I saw live bullets being fired at the main gate, ambulances on campus, and massive amounts of tear gas thrown at the marchers condemning the Egyptian security forces' bloody actions at Rabaa el Adaweya Square.

to substitute for age old rivalries the merging of their essential interests to create, by establishing an economic community, the basis for a broader and deeper community among peoples long divided by bloody conflicts and to lay the foundations for institutions which will give direction to a destiny henceforward shared .

It involves the introduction of the rule of law and democracy against a backdrop of poverty among urban and rural people and an international security system which has been greatly shaken since the violent attacks of 11 September 2001.

The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.

There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of legitimacy of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.

The deepening political crisis, the extreme rigid stance taken by the polarized political parties and the pending general election coming up on January 5, 2014 that the main opposition parties have boycotted, all point to another vicious cycles of bloody confrontations between the current government and its oppositions.

The recent events in Syria, while bloody and depressing to many people, have also brought about an explosion of blogs, Facebook pages and articles that try to satirize the events, and point out the absurdities in the official narrative sometimes in very unorthodox ways.

On April 29, protesters marched from 400 on feet from the southern city of Bougi.

Much has changed since the Nazi era. The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world s most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.

This recognition has already dampened US policymakers support for the Arab Spring uprisings witness Obama s hesitation to intervene in Libya and his unwillingness, at least so far, to involve America directly in Syria s bloody civil war.

Yet we will remain defiant. President Duterte, who is now on an official trip in China as part of his moves to forge a more independent foreign policy, has promised to investigate the incident and make an official pronouncement upon his return on October 21. Nine police officials involved in the bloody dispersal have been dismissed from service.

Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence building measures or, in the case of the long dead Road Map, through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.

Moreover, does anyone, for example, want to see China return to the years of bloody warlordism of the early twentieth century? Not likely. Thus clear principles are needed, as neither self determination nor the inviolability of national borders can be treated as sacrosanct in every case.