As Arab leaders on Saturday (June 2nd) called for United Nations action in Syria, at least 27 people were killed in violence across the country, AFP reported.
Foreign ministers from Arab League states met in Doha Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria. Ahead of that meeting, the Arab League committee on Syria requested Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, to set a time frame for his mission.
"We request Mr. Annan to set a time frame for his mission because it is unacceptable that massacres and bloodshed continue while the mission is on-going indefinitely," Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister, told a meeting of the committee attended by Annan.
"We demand the UN Security Council refer the six-point [Annan plan] to Chapter VII [of the UN Charter] so that the international community could assume responsibilities," he said, without elaborating.
Chapter VII of the charter outlines action the Security Council might take, including military force, in response to threats to international peace, breaches of peace and acts of aggression.
Earlier, Nabil al-Arabi, secretary-general of the Arab League, said he had asked the Security Council to take strong action to protect civilians in Syria. However, al-Arabi did not raise the subject of military intervention.
Annan, meanwhile, told the Arab ministers "the spectre of an all-out war with a worrying sectarian dimension grows by the day".
"The situation is complex and it takes everyone involved in the conflict to act responsibly if the violence is to stop. But the first responsibility lies in the Syrian government and President Assad," Annan said.
Also on Saturday, Syrian troops clashed with opposition forces across the country, killing at least 27 people, including 15 soldiers, 11 civilians and one member of the opposition forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
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عزيز صلاح
2012-6-7
Why did the Security Council not act, and why did it not issue an immediate resolution regarding the Syrians and their future? Bashar is striving systematically to wipe out his people and his nation completely, and he is employing the same tactic that Hosni Mubarak had in mind. This tactic is either Bashar or chaos and destruction. Bashar is looting the wealth of his people, and the Arab and other nations in the world should send medical aid and food supplies to the Syrian people. They should coordinate on this with the Syrian Transitional Council, with the help of human rights organizations. Bashar shows no respect for anyone and disregards any international resolution issued against him. What he is doing gives hints about the fact that he is backed by one of the major powers, and that is the source of his indifference and lack of concern. The Security Council should confront those countries that are supporting the Syrian regime and should fulfill its duties towards the helpless, unarmed Syrian citizens. Syrians are suffering a great deal, thus Bashar’s ouster should come sooner rather than later. Therefore, it is inevitable that Syrians resort to military solutions and lending a hand to the Syrian Free Army against pro-Bashar troops. Despite the fact that the Syrian Free Army is armed, however, their armaments are nothing in comparison with those of the Syrian army. The latter have all sorts of weaponry and military hardware at their disposal and have perpetrated crimes against their own people. Their crimes will remind vivid in the minds of the Syrians and will not be erased from their memory. No Syrian child will forget the killing of his parents by Bashar’s regime, which is indifferent about to everything. Bashar is not even fearful of god when he is oppressing his own people, thus, all countries should give no support to Bashar. This will weaken him and eventually topple him and his regime. We have all witnessed Bashar’s crimes, and we have seen the corpses of dead children lying everywhere. Syrians need military and medical support. They also need plenty of food supplies and equipped vehicles to rescue the life of Syrians everywhere.
سعود
2012-6-3
The horrible crimes of the Syrian regime against the simple citizens continued at the sight of the Arab rulers and the international organizations and they provide a chance after another. Despite the thousands of the pictures and scenes in the Arab and western mass media, the world sufficed with the condemnation of denial as well as threatening with imposition of sanctions and then going back whenever Bashar provides fake promises of change and invitations to the opposition inside and outside Syria to participate in the process of the alleged reform. This regime still lives in the past and resists the winds of change with the policy of suppression and silencing the opposition voices. Bashar also resists the will of the Syrian people who aspire to the freedom and getting rid of the corrupt people depending on the killing machine.
Jeda
2012-6-3
Very few people believed the version of the Syrian regime about Damascus bombings that took place in front of the headquarters of the Palestian Intelligence Branch. Very few people sent condolences to Bashar in order to sooth him, believing that the regime was innocent of this bombing, which harmed the civilians more than harming the thugs of the regime in this branch. However, very few people consider that the regime is performing the death dance with al-Qaeda inside Syria exactly as happened in Iraq for long years. Of course, the same thing took place in Lebanon and the regime there has been playing with the threat of terrorism and bombings over four decades in collaboration with the Lebanese and the Palestinian organizations in the Lebanese arena. Will we forget that in Lebanon there are ministers and members of the parliament who are responsible for the use of car bombs that killed hundreds of the Lebanese people? Terrorism and terrorizing are the only methods that are known to the Syrian regime, using the assassinations, kidnappings, and bombings. The regime of Hafez Al-Asad and his son led to the deaths of thousands of the Lebanese, Iraqis, Palestinians, and today Syrians. We all remember the horrible collaboration between the Iranian and the Syrian intelligence when they recruited fighters from all over the world including suicide attackers to cross into Iraq and spread death everywhere.
صباح شامل
2012-6-3
The developments accelerate in the Syrian arena, and the date of finishing this issue internationally is approaching, at least in our opinion, after submitting the final report on the compliance of the Syrian regime with the plan to solve the crisis in Syria by the UN envoy Kofi Annan. In addition, many parties started realizing that the regime is bluffing and all the tricks of the regime are totally known to the youngest observer of the situation in Syria, to the extent that the planned bombings became one of the methods of the mass punishment of the demonstrators and accusing them of the responsibility for the explosions at the same time. Nevertheless, we wished that the regime in Syria would preserve any hope in the possibility of reaching a political solution to the crisis. However, it responded by closing all the roads in the face of solving the crisis. We have said before that the first drop of blood to fall in any Arab state will be the beginning of the end of its regime. The zealous Arab cannot endure to see his people slaughtered before his eyes while he watches calmly. We have seen a clip in the recent days that proves that the international strike against the regime became closer than ever and that it became inevitable. The international system works on finishing all the justifications and elimination of any sympathy for the regime in Syria before directing the deathblow to it. We saw the Syrian soldiers burying a Syrian citizen alive because he refused to say, “There is no God but Bashar”. When I watched this clip, I could not shed tears as usual, but I was filled with the feelings of suppression, humiliation, and disgust at this regime, which became so degenerated and criminal. The regime did not suffice with silencing the people, killing the demonstrators, torturing the opposition, but it even buried them alive because they refuse to kneel before it. There is no power except with God the Almighty. Indeed, the land of Syria has many freemen.
حبيب احمد
2012-6-3
The world wants to recognize the Syrian opposition, but they do not know what parties they should recognize? There are many parties, many speakers, and many factions that speak in the name of the opposition. This means that the alternative to the current regime would be much worse. None of those who sympathize with the suppressed people wants the period after the fall of the regime of Al-Assad to witness a civil war that burns everything. They want a united people under unified leadership that can build the state and achieve the pluralism and freedom to which all the Syrian people aspire. In short, if the Syrian opposition did not want foreign hegemony over the country after the departure of Al-Assad or a fierce civil war.
عاطف
2012-6-3
Moscow urges all countries that have influence on the armed opposition to inform it in a strongly-worded tone that it is not allow to commit any provocative actions and that is must abide by the truce declared on April 12". Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Wednesday, "His country proposed to hold talks in Moscow between Syrian authorities and opposition of the auspices of the United Nations. Bogdanov added According to the Russian magazine. "IP Premiere" that "Russia has proposed the start this dialogue in Moscow, due to reservations of the opposition (delegates of the opposition abroad) regarding traveling to Syria and the rejection of the Syrian regime to hold the meeting in Cairo under the auspices of the Arab League
ابو نشاة
2012-6-3
All the youth who are enrolled in the compulsory military service in Al-Assad’s brigades must refrain from joining these gangs, because they will either kill their people or receive severe punishment or even assassinated if you refused to comply with the orders and die in vain. Join the Free Syrian Army to die as martyrs and sacrifice your souls for the sake of the home, land, people, and honor or to achieve the victory and enjoy the blessings that were stolen from you and live with honor on the land of your grandfathers.
اضحك
2012-6-2
The Arab citizen is in desperate need of laughter, and this is why we bring him this news. The Sudanese president says that his country has strong relations with the Syrian regime, yet "these relations do not stop Khartoum from expressing its opinion. We are talking about the necessity of bringing about reform in Syria." President Omar al-Bashir is directing Bashar al-Assad to the necessity of reform. He advises al-Assad, saying: "The stability and security of Syria for Sudan is a vital thing, but this cannot be achieved except through a government based on its basis." The “basis” here is not, of course, the al-Qaeda organization – “Qaeda” means base in Arabic; it rather means the people and the citizens. This is coming from a president who came to power through a military coup. He has been in power for almost two decades. Sudan was divided during his reign. He is being pursued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. About two million people were killed in his country due to wars and campaigns of suppression, whether in Darfur or elsewhere. Most of his political opponents are arrested, pursued or threatened. Yet, he is giving advice to Bashar al-Assad; moreover, he is asking him to introduce reforms and talking about the necessity of having a government in Damascus stemming from the approval of the public!! Indeed, when it's gotten this bad, you can only laugh. “The worst disaster is the one that brings laughter.” I don't think there is any place in the world that has as much black humor as our region. The sad thing, or the funny thing, as both of them are the same, is that the Sudanese president says: "We exist in Syria through the observers committee to convey the true situation. For sure, we are with the Syrian people and we want security and stability for Syria, because it is a very important country among the opposing countries." By this, he refers to Commander Mustafa al-Dabi, the head of the Arab League observer mission. Some of this mission attended the solace marquee, a place to offer condolences, that the al-Assad regime set up for those who were killed in the suicide operations committed last Friday in Damascus, which the Syrian opposition claims were planned by the regime.
ابو سالم
2012-6-2
This gang is risking everything and it has gambeld with people's blood , their freedom, properties and security. Today, I warn again, they are risking the whole nation, its unity as well as its existence. The most important motto of the revolution must be the establishment of the state institution, based on citizenry, rights, duties, justice and freedom. Let the gang leave with its criminal approach.