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    UN Accuses Syria Of Crimes Against Humanity

    Sky News – Mon, Feb 13, 2012

    The UN human rights chief has said that the organisation's failure to pass a resolution on Syria gave the Assad regime courage to "launch an all-out assault" on its people.

    High commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay told the UN General Assembly that the scale of deaths in the last year indicated that crimes against humanity have taken place and continue in the country and that they must not go unpunished.

    Despite the Arab League's request to the UN's Security Council for a joint UN peacekeeping force, the calls are unlikely to be heeded so long as Russia and China continue with their policy of no outside interference in Syrian affairs.

    Even British Foreign Secretary William Hague has admitted Western troops are unlikely to join the peacekeeping mission in Syria, despite saying he backs the idea of a joint Arab League-UN plan.

    The League demanded the UN's military presence, spelled out in a resolution adopted at a meeting of the League's foreign ministers. But Syria has already rejected the call.

    The League's meeting in Cairo at the weekend was full of impassioned pleas to save the Syrian people.

    Sky News foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said: "The Saudi delegation asked: 'Until when will we remain spectators?' But they know the answer.

    "Without a complete U-turn by the US and European states there will be no intervention until the Arab League decides to do it by itself.

    "As it has neither the stomach nor the army to do so, it will not be happening any time soon.

    "The League also disbanded its monitoring mission. The mission was already suspended, which appears to be one of the reasons why President Assad felt able to so dramatically escalate the violence 10 days ago."

    Marshall added that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the two Arab states taking the hardest line against Syria and led the calls to collapse the mission completely.

    If they had not pulled out their monitors in the first place it is possible President Assad could not have launched the full-scale bombardment of Homs that began on Friday, February 3.

    Today's UN meeting forms part of the ongoing search for some countries to find ways to pressure the Assad regime. 

    It will continue on February 24 with the first meeting of the new 'Friends of Syria' group. 

    This includes Arab and EU countries, and the USA.

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    • terry
      terry  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      Freedom fighters or Terrorists?
      As Syria is supported by Russia, the insurgents must be "Freedom fighters". If a similar situation was ever allowed to happen in Saudi, you can bet your last cent, they would be classed as terrorists.
      • Arthur
        Arthur 3 months ago
        It has always been the same Terry, and always will be. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. In Syria, in my opinion the bulk of them are freedom fighters.
      • jules
        jules 3 months ago
        Fraction of UN support the armed rebel the rest support ASSAD, remember Libya. So this fraction of rebel supporter pay Sky news to publish this propaganda..but how long should they pay for propaganda?..lol''
      • Frank R
        Frank R 3 months ago
        Syria is to Iran what the UK is to the USA.

        Russia, China and the USA have been fighting a variety of 'proxy wars' ever since the end of WW2.

        Hypocrisy is the main currency of international diplomacy but that has been the case stretching back for millenia.
    • ronald
      ronald  •  Sunderland, England  •  3 months ago
      LOOK AT LIBYA....those who nato helped are now butchering people
    • MARTIN
      MARTIN  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      Read agenda 21 people which will show you the UN doesn't exist for you the people
      • PAUL
        PAUL 3 months ago
        Been saying this for some time, some people are starting to wake up, thats why the globalists are rushing for total control and censorship now as more and mopre are seeing all the crud they are giving the normal decent people of the world.

        Global warming has been rumbled, the false flag attacks are been seen through, more and more people are seeing other things like flouride in the water, cancer viruses in the vaccines (amongst other things) and the blatant fraud of the global perverted elites as they use the financial system they created at the outset to implode. People are waking up, they now have to move faster and in doing that more people are seeing the lies. I work on one or two things most time I see people, asking opinions on things that are kept purposely off the MSM and it helps, some do go and look things up themselves and I have noticed more and more doing so.

        I hope we reach a tipping point soon before the cell door shuts.
    • up theirs!
      up theirs!  •  Maidenhead, England  •  3 months ago
      What a beautiful World......shame, about the human race................
      • Vin
        Vin 3 months ago
        It is not the human race it is the capitalist class in pursuit of profit
      • kevin
        kevin 3 months ago
        you sound like prince philip lol!
      • John
        John 3 months ago
        Nothing wrong with capatalism. There will be corrupt in any system.
    • John
      John  •  3 months ago
      Why do people always look at government or the UN to supply their needs. This is why people are loosing their freedom, because like a bunch of sheep they dont want to take care of themselves and want to pawn the responsibility off onto the government. And guess what? the government will jump to have the opportunity to nanny you like a child. This is exactly what we see in the British welfare state, an inability for people to take care of themselves. This is why we are disarmed, divided, and battered by taxes and legislation. But all this is supposedly done for our own good. Really? Maybe its done for their own good.
      • Sniper
        Sniper 3 months ago
        Thicko the people of Syria are trying to tend to their own needs but their government is killing them for doing so
      • John
        John 3 months ago
        Well thicko mybe if they had firearms they could have #$%$ back you donkey, oh yea and by the way they are sending rescue with your taxes dimwit.
    • Vin
      Vin  •  3 months ago
      US and UK have lied before EVERY war in order to get our sons and daughters to fight and die for their profits
      • PETER O
        PETER O 3 months ago
        They die for the "chosen" vile beasts on two legs.
      • Sniper
        Sniper 3 months ago
        So seeing people in Syria being blown up is just lies, get a life numbnuts innocent people are being killed in cold blood
      • loneranger_96
        loneranger_96 3 months ago
        Well if Britian would not arm the rebels and if america would not arm them maybe therewould not be the trouble there is there today Salty Sam numb nuts you are need in the front line.....
    • keith
      keith  •  Ramsgate, England  •  3 months ago
      when is Mr Bleir and Bush being prosicuted for crimes in iraq #$%$ i forgot the winers arnt war criminals only the loosers
    • Troll
      Troll  •  3 months ago
      If this was happening in the UK or US they would be classed as terrorists but because the West wants to see Syria fall they are classed as Freedom Fighters. The US and UK best stop meddling in Middle Eastern politics as it will only end in tears!
    • B
      B  •  3 months ago
      Have just watched the BBC and ITV news - both completely supporting the Islamic revolutionaries. When people said our media were biased and as dishonest as that in totalitarian countries I used to say it was untrue. But if they're so blatantly taking sides here, maybe we SHOULD question them more.
    • B
      B  •  3 months ago
      Its a civil war - large factions supporting either side. Why is the West siding against the Christians and educated liberal classes, and in favour of the Islamic fundamentalists?
    • john ward
      john ward  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      The UN is waste of space.....overpaid morons.Expenses list as long as my arm i bet..
    • UK
      UK  •  Leeds, England  •  3 months ago
      UN is two faced , double standard new world order agenda!

      if any one thinks the above is not true i suggest they do a little bit of their own research!
    • RAY
      RAY  •  3 months ago
      The West is arming the Syrian rebels. The West is sending in Al Qaeda which is a proxy army for the CIA or possibly Saudi Arabia. Do not fall the MSM propaganda anymore. Do not be manipulated anymore.

      WMD anyone?
    • MARTIN
      MARTIN  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      Read agenda 21 people the UN isn't as freedom loving as some think
    • DVDman
      DVDman  •  Victoria, Canada  •  3 months ago
      and what is happening in Zimbabwe etc is all sun and roses is it, choosy logic, it really offends me
    • weapons of mass-humanitar ...
      weapons of mass-humanitar ...  •  London, England  •  3 months ago
      The cat is out of the bag. Never again will this generation be fooled and manipulated by the liars in the Foreign Offices of USA, France and UK, nor the crocodile tears of the UN "You-cannot-have-a-veto-unless-you-sell-billions-of-dollars-of-weapons-a-year" Security Council. No one believes the fake news (week-long "bombardments" of mortars and rocket-fire that comprise no more than a couple of explosions, of uncertain origin, and a few isolated plumes of smoke - yep, thanks for that not-so-clever-editing SkyNews / AFP / Reuters et al - but we know what a real bombardment looks like, we have seen band of brothers) , no-one for a second believes the fake London-based "Syrian Observatory of Human Rights", no one believes there is a real "Syrian Free Army" when the only video we see of them are terrorists skulking around corners with shiny-new RPGs and S-N-I-P-E-R Rifles. And no-one believes that the Arab League has the interests of the majority in Syria who support Assad, why else does the League not call for elections..
    • Uncle Tom
      Uncle Tom  •  Sheffield, England  •  3 months ago
      Why don’t the Arab League show some backbone and sort this mess out them self’s
    • James
      James  •  Birkenhead, England  •  3 months ago
      The Bilderberg Group just won't stop pushing their agenda...
    • PAUL
      PAUL  •  Birmingham, England  •  3 months ago
      Oh.. look, that old chestnut. When will they get it that no matter the lies more and more people are waking up to the lies that the UN, US and EU are pedaling. More are waking up to the fact that the people behind these organisations do not have the majority of the peoples well beings in mind. They want perpetual war and incresing lack of freedoms and more and more control. Anyone who doesnt thing this gets sorted and they keep the wars going.

      Lets have more people realise what is going on and ignore these perverted lie pedalers in the main stream media. Assad might not be perfect, but he ran a secular country as did Gaddafi which meant that all religions were protected from persecution. Now we have wholesale persecution of any non muslims in the areas they have liberated, all with the aid of Al CIAda, that lovely western backed, trained and funded group of freedom fighter/terrorists.

      That this lie ignores the fact that the crime against society is the perpetual march to a globalist post tech medical dictatorship where they bring in total control of the family and bring us all down to a feudalistic level of subserviance. Many will say its all doom mongering, I wish it was, but I am really worried for our kids futures when I see what is going on in the world.
    • Stephen
      Stephen  •  Reading, England  •  3 months ago
      This is a bit rich, some of the biggest mass murderers in history crying about crimes against humanity, these pathetic right wing extremists should be removed from power and their countries expunged from the map
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