Brahimi to meet Assad in Syria

2012-09-11

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday (September 11th) that Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria, will meet Syrian President Bashar Assad when he travels to the country.

"Special representative Brahimi is soon going to have a meeting with Syrian authorities including President Assad, and he has already been engaged with the key stakeholders," Ban said during a news conference in Bern.

Also on Tuesday, at least 36 people -- 33 of them civilians -- were killed in continuing violence across the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Twelve people were killed throughout the Aleppo province, including five during shelling of the opposition stronghold of Sakhur, the Observatory said.

Syrian forces shelled al-Hajar al-Aswad in Rif Dimashq, Kfar Zeita in Hama province and Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor, killing at least 16 people.

Clashes south of Damascus in Babila and Yalda and in Idlib province also killed at least two men, the Observatory said.

In the capital Damascus, an explosion hit the Mezze district overnight, and pro-regime gunmen fought opposition fighters in the Barzeh district.

Clashes also broke out south of the capital in Tadamun and in the nearby Yarmuk refugee camp, the Observatory said.

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حسن عموري

2012-9-12

If governments keep silent, peoples must not do the same. The latter should urge their governments to move in order to find a solution in order to settle this conflict in a peaceful way whether political through the International Organizations to maintain the rights and seek to achieve this through an international gathering of the brotherly Arabs and an attempt from the part of the Arab League to find a role in organizing the political life. In fact, the least thing which could be done here is opening the door for these refugees who have been repressed by their brother Syrians and have been unfortunately oppressed by the Regime and neglected by the governments of their brotherly countries. In so doing, we can save face since we have not become dull, changed and lost our identity as Arabs as well as our human values which peoples around the world have always envied us for them. In fact, this issue should not be confined to rescue the refugees but it should rather escalate to the top even if we resort to military intervention in order to impose the will of people given that our religion has imposed on us the support of the right before being imposed by the nature of political life.