UN General Assembly passes resolution criticising Security Council, Syrian government

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UN General Assembly passed a resolution Friday (August 3) criticising the UN Security Council for inaction and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its use of violence, AFP reported.

The vote, which passed by 133 votes to 12 votes, with 31 abstentions, was drafted by Saudi Arabia shortly after the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan resigned from his post.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said ahead of the vote that the Security Council had become "paralysed" by divisions over Syria.

"Now, with the situation having worsened, they must again find common ground," he said.

Meanwhile, Syrian armed forces on Saturday (August 4th) bombarded the opposition-held Salaheddine district of Aleppo from the air and the ground.

"It was the most violent shelling of Salaheddine since the outbreak of fighting in Aleppo," on July 20th, said Col. Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army.

Regime forces also shelled the Sayf al-Dawla district of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

At least 60 people were killed across Syria on Saturday, including eight in Aleppo, the Observatory said, reporting violent clashes and regime shelling in the capital city Damascus and in Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria.

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    مظهر خالد الحميد

    2012-8-15

    The foreign countries must protect the Syrians from the repeated terrible crimes against them, perpetrated by the Assad’s regime. Unfortunately, there are some countries which do not hesitate to help the Syrian regime through providing it with weapons that are used in the commission of genocide against the Syrians. These crimes are perpetrated before the Arab and the international communities. In fact, there are some countries which are able to put an end to those crimes. In this respect, the Arab countries must seek to prevent the arrival of ships laden with arms to the Syrian regime. The Arab troops must confiscate the weapons needed by the Syrian regime to continue its repressive operations. Indeed, the regime would collapse easily when it runs out of ammunition. Thus, the Arabs must seek to prevent the arrival of arms to the Syrian regime in every possible way. Besides, the Arab Governments must send aid to the Syrians and support the Free Syrian Army. In fact, this is their moral duty since they sought to reach compromise with the Syrian regime rather confrontation. The regime did not give up. Thus, it is inevitable to use force against this unjust regime which is responsible for many crimes against our brotherly innocent people in Syria. The Syrian regime has become so tyrannical that it should receive a firm response in order to save the Syrians. I supplicate Almighty Allah to help our brothers in Syria who are subjected to exaggerated repression. The brave Syrian people are resisting the regime’s violations. However, the Syrians cannot tolerate oppression any longer. They desperately need our support. They expect us to rid them of the oppression of the Syrian regime which stole their money and denied all their basic rights. I supplicate Allah Almighty to protect the Syrians and to make the end of the Syrian regime so close. I hope that this regime will receive a horrible fate. In fact, this regime must pay for its crimes. Many Syrians lost their loved ones. They lost everything because of the crimes of Assad against them.

  • شاكر

    2012-8-15

    The crimes that occur in Syria are terribly harsh for the residents of this country. The Syrians are exposed to terrible suffering every day. Their life is marred by the repressive practices exercised by the ruthless Syrian regime against the innocent people. Indeed, the Syrian regime is trying to annihilate the brotherly Syrian people in a brutal and barbaric way. May Allah help the Syrians who are exposed to daily shelling by the troops of the Syrian regime. The latter are using all the lethal weapons against innocent people there. The Syrian opposition needs the help of the Arabs who should send their troops to support the Free Syrian Army. We seek the eradication of the Syrian regime in order to restore the past situation and position in the country.

  • عماد عبود

    2012-8-15

    It has been shown that the criminality of Israel, which the regime claims to combat, compared to what Bashar is doing is nothing but a simple joke with our brothers in Palestine. In fact, this Revolution has been scandalous for this regime which is no longer able to find something to hide behind after everything has been exposed. Indeed, the lies and deception with which it used to use as a cover for long years have been exposed within a few months.

  • حذام بدر حسين

    2012-8-10

    We strongly condemn the shameful position of all the Arabs that the Arab governments and states have shown toward the free, brave and struggling Syrian people. We all condemn and we do not accept at all what has happened, in terms of the shameful attitudes resulting from the Arab countries, their governments and their presidents. All the Arab people feel shame and disgrace toward what is happening to the Syrian people, to whom no one could provide any assistance. Hence, and after we have denounced the shameful position of the Arab states towards the Syrian people, we call on all the Arab leaders and all the Arab people to assist the brave Syrian people in many ways, one of which is to help the numerous Syrian families who have left Syria and emigrated to any other Arab state to protect themselves from the intrigues occurring in their country, caused by the offender Bashar Al-Assad. Therefore, the Arab states must help these refugees, care about them and provide them with all the material assistance they need.

  • عصام كامل

    2012-8-8

    The Arab world is one because all of them are brothers. They must help each other regardless of who they are even if there are differences between the countries. We see that they are united and realized in Syria by the existence of a free army against the Syrian army, and against the coward regime of Bashar. This army is working on overthrowing the corrupt and the unjust regime. It works on establishing a free civic state with a constitution that guarantees the sovereignty of the Syrian people through the material and the human support to the free army to resist and defeat the corrupt army, and also through persuading the men of the clans and the tribes who are in the corrupt and oppressive regular army to refuse the orders to shoot and kill their brothers of the same country. They should stop killing, robbing and raping their women. They should make them immediately split from this corrupt and oppressive army whom the corrupt regime of Bashar is trying to make of them a tool to put out the Syrian revolution as the people of the free Arabic Syrian tribes comprise half of the population of Syria, and that they are dispersed throughout the cities, towns and villages in Syria, and beyond. As for the displaced people of Syria who escaped the murder, the injustice and the suffering, they take refuge in the neighboring Arabic countries. They must help them and make them brothers to us.

  • شهاب كريم

    2012-8-7

    The Arab States must move quickly in order to send weapons to the military forces represented in the free Syrian army that represents the only shield to resist injustice and protect the Syrians from the continuing violations of the Syrian regime towards the civilians. There must be a firm and clear response from the Arab countries for the elimination of the Syrian regime. The Syrians do not need any military strikes from foreign forces but they need to be provided the necessary weapons to make the powers equal and that the response would be mutual. The Syrian revolution has been and still is peaceful. However, this peaceful feature may not continue as they must defend themselves and eliminate the juggernaut Bashar and his associates. They will not do this without an appropriate force to respond to them. The States must send this military assistance quickly so that the Syrians would work and succeed in resisting the regular army that did many violations which the Syrians have suffered from. They are weary of Bashar and his crimes and want to put an end to him for freeing their country, and for their lives to continue in freedom and justice.

  • شوقي احمد

    2012-8-7

    Why did Saudi Arabia not react to all of what is happening? Why does it stand like this and does not do anything to help these innocent people who are killed every day? Their blood is shed and without any right. Where is Jordan? Where is Iraq? Where is Egypt? Where are Tunisia, Algeria and all the Arabic States? We say they are busy internally with the revolutions and the internal conflicts but the Foreign Affairs of the other naughty Arabic States have the right and a really significant right from all the Arabic States. Let us forget about this. Where are the rest of the other Islamic and major States, like Turkey and Iran, which are major Islamic States that know the law of Allah and that killing a human being unjustly is forbidden? Why do they not provide military assistance to get rid of that dog and leave the State ruled by a national Presidential Council? It completes the process and helps the State again to stand up for its continuity and no for deleting the features and forms of the countries from maps and history.

  • موسى حبيب

    2012-8-7

    The Islamic, the Arab and the international world stand idly towards what is happening in Syria but we do not know why. Are the Syrians people who do not belong to us? Do they come from another planet? Are they not human beings? Are they iron machines that do not feel anything? Where are the rights organizations with regards to what is happening? Where are the human rights, the United Nations and the international courts? Where is all of this? We see every day death, destruction and havoc which are spread in the whole Syria. Why do we stand like this and see what happens with our eyes and still remain silent? Couldn't the world help this aggrieved State with this killer and irreligious pig that is very easy to be disposed of? It can work if we do not need the whole world because the world has Western foreign countries that do not care about the conditions of the Arabic States or the conditions of the Muslims in anything. Why did the Arabic States not react towards this?

  • غازي

    2012-8-5

    The territories of the beloved Syria in the recent times have become as a land that sank in the blood of its people. This is not just an analogy or a metaphor about the brutality or horribleness but this is also a method of real report and facts on the decent Syrian territory. Indeed, the land of the beloved Syria has turned into remains of a country having sunk in the blood that is shed from the dear victims of its citizens by its governor and its protector Bashar al Assad because he is refusing the objection of the rebels and it is because of his oppression exercised against the Syrian citizens. Every right recognizes that Bashar Al-Assad should be prosecuted for what he had done to his people.

  • عدي جواد

    2012-8-4

    The Arab-Muslim world is powerful. It has all the capacities and resources which enable it to become a great power in the world. However, it sticks to weakness due to hatred, malice and rancor spread among the sons of the silent Arab world towards the strife, conspiracies and conflicts taking place in Syria. In fact, Arabs are silent towards the murder, torture, devastation and destruction taking place in Syria. It is an odd silence which makes us wonder: where is the Arabic pride and manhood? Where is the love of brothers and where is solidarity among Arabs? Arab peoples must join efforts and stand together in order to protect and save Syria. It is a human and moral duty for the Arabs. They must protect and save brotherly Syria.