Secretary general condemns Syrian regime as details emerge of village massacre and deepening sectarian tension
Martin Chulov in Beirut
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 June 2012
"The Syrian regime has "lost its fundamental humanity" and no longer has any legitimacy, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, said on Thursday as he described a massacre of around 90 villagers as "shocking and sickening" and demanded that the killers be brought to account.
Using some of the strongest language yet to condemn the government of Bashar al-Assad, Ban said UN monitors were shot at trying to get to the scene of the massacre on Wednesday.
The massacre, in the hamlet of al-Qubair, near Syria's fourth city of Hama, comes less than three weeks after more than 100 people were killed in Houla – an event that has sharply increased sectarian tensions and appears to be sending the country sliding towards civil war.
A loyalist civilian militia known as the Shabiha was widely accused of carrying out the Houla killings. Witnesses to the massacre in al-Qubair insisted that the Shabiha, whose members are largely from the ruling Alawite sect, had again been responsible.... "
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yeah, unlike those free syrian army car bombers of damascus...and their gulf, zionist and american backers.
neither side has any humanity.
the so called opposition embraced a stupid, though deliberate strategy that would only encourage outside intervention and internal sectarianism. they fell right into the conspiracy.
in particular, they launched a premature, sectarian armed struggle -- without mass popular support -- that would only make the situation worse for everyone, and encourage outside manipulation.
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