May 2012
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#Syria set to become failed state: Israeli...
(Reuters) - Syria is heading for collapse and will become a “warehouse of weapons” for Islamist militants as it descends into chaos, a senior Israeli army commander said.
“Syria is in civil war, which will lead to a failed state, and terrorism will blossom in it,” said Major-General Yair Golan, making a rare public appearance at a conference at Bar Ilan University on...
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#Syria Leaders Challenged to End Syrian Slaughter
Wednesday’s London Times.
LONDON — Bernard-Henri Lévy, the flamboyant French philosopher who gave himself the credit for spurring international military intervention in Libya last year, called on Wednesday for France to rally its allies behind similar action in Syria.
In an open letter to President François Hollande, France’s most public intellectual called for measures, including a no-flight...
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#Syria faces 'catastrophic civil war': UN's Ban
DAMASCUS — UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Thursday that Syria risks a “catastrophic civil war” following a massacre that sparked global outrage, as the US slammed Russia for resisting UN action against Damascus.
Armed Syrian rebels upped the ante meanwhile by threatening new action against the Syrian regime unless it falls in line by midday (0900 GMT) Friday with a six-point peace...
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#Syria What Bashar Assad Knows
By DOUGLAS MURRAY
British Foreign Secretary William Hague described the killing of at least 108 people last Friday in the Syrian town of Houla as “deeply disturbing.” The U.K. talked of summoning the Syrian chargés d’affaires to the Foreign Office. Meanwhile Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg used an interview over the weekend to escalate the rhetoric...
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#Syria Witness: The Street Revolution Grows More...
Mousab Alhamadee introduced himself to us as a media liaison for the opposition Local Coordination Committees (LCC) of Syria. A former translator who joined the revolution, he says he is now attached to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in an undisclosed location outside of Hama.
The Syrian government restricts international reporters from entering the country. To get stories out of Syria, we are...
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#Syria Opening Remarks of Joint Special Envoy For...
OPENING REMARKS OF JOINT SPECIAL ENVOY FOR SYRIA’S PRESS CONFERENCE – DAMASCUS, 29 MAY 2012
Good afternoon.
As you know, I arrived in Damascus yesterday and I met President Assad this morning. I had earlier met the Foreign Minister, and I have also had a range of other meetings with opposition and civil society figures.
In my meeting with President Assad, I conveyed in frank terms the grave...
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#Syria Pro-Assad militia likely responsible for...
Tue, 29 May 2012 16:46 GMT
Source: Reuters // Reuters
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Tuesday that militia supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were probably responsible for killing people with small arms and knives in the massacre of 108 civilians in Houla.
“Part of the victims had been killed by artillery shells, now that...
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Annan warns #Syria of grave concern, West pulls...
By Joseph Logan
BEIRUT | Tue May 29, 2012 9:11am EDT
(Reuters) - Peace envoy Kofi Annan expressed “grave concern” to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday and Western nations threw out its envoys to protest against a massacre of 108 civilians, many of them children, in the town of Houla.
France, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain...
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#Syria Annan Meets Syria’s Assad to Urge...
International peace envoy Kofi Annan has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to urge compliance with a cease-fire torn by clashes between government troops and rebels.
A U.N. spokeswoman said Mr. Annan would raised two main issues in Tuesday’s meeting: his six-point peace plan for Syria and the killings of at least 108 civilians in the flashpoint town of Houla last...
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#Syria Houla: How a massacre unfolded
At least 108 people were killed in Taldou, the majority of them women and children
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The village of Taldou, near the town of Houla in Syria’s Homs province was the scene of one of the worst massacres in the country’s 14-month-long uprising on Friday.
United Nations observers on the ground have confirmed that at least 108 people were killed, including 49...
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Syrian defectors accuse Assad relatives of...
Jonathan Miller
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 May 2012 16.56 BST
UN observers at a morgue holding victims of the Houla massacre. Photograph: Shaam News/AFP/Getty Images
New evidence has emerged that members of Bashar al-Assad’s family and inner circle are directly ordering the commission of crimes against humanity in Syria. Experts in international law consider it “preposterous...
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#Syria : UN enquiry should investigate Houla...
(New York) – Kofi Annan should push Syria’s government to allow the UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry access into the country to investigate the May 25, 2012, killing of at least 108 Houla residents, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of an impending visit by the UN envoy to Damascus. The Syrian government has so far refused entry to the UN-mandated commission. Human Rights Watch also reiterated...
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Can Annan/UN Afford to Look Away from #Syria...
Posted on 27 May at 10:02
UN Observers under Kofi Annan and General Robert Mood’s command are witness to a crime that now Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has taken note of: “This appalling and brutal crime involving indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force is a flagrant violation of international law and of the commitments of the Syrian Government to cease the use of heavy weapons in...
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Syrian opposition calls “battle of liberation” if...
Syrian opposition head Burhan Ghalioun called on Sunday for a “battle of liberation” against the regime until the United Nations takes action under Chapter Seven which allows military intervention.
“I call on the Syrian people to lead a battle of liberation and dignity, relying on its own forces, on the rebels deployed across the country and the Free Syrian Army brigades and...
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US condemns #Syria massacre and looks for Russian...
Matt Williams in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 May 2012 15.33 BST
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The UN team in Syria described the attack in Houla as ‘indiscriminate and unforgivable’ but declined to directly point the finger at Assad’s loyalists. Photograph: Shaam News/AFP/Getty Images
Secretary of state Hillary Clinton has said the perpetrators of the Houla massacre must be held...
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#Syria United Nations ceasefire in tatters after...
The bodies of people whom anti-government protesters say were killed by government security forces lie on the ground in Huola Photo: Reuters
By Colin Freeman, and Ruth Sherlock in Beirut
6:50PM BST 26 May 2012
In one of the bloodiest incidents to date in the 15-month long uprising, 92 people were killed after a 12-hour regime assault on Houla, in the central province of...
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#Syria : children slaughtered as regime unleashes...
Martin Chulov Beirut
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 26 May 2012
Two UN observers arrived in the central Syrian town of Houla early on Saturday to inspect the aftermath of an 18-hour regime assault, which activists claim has left close to 100 people dead.
Residents had sent a series of urgent pleas for assistance from midday on Friday as Syrian military positions which had encircled the town for...
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