{"id":321,"date":"2011-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"UN urged to issue resolution on Syria bloodshed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nUN urged to issue resolution on Syria bloodshed
\n<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nWorld
\nleaders must take immediate concrete action to respond to the crisis in Syria,
\nAmnesty International said today, amid reports that the death toll since mass
\nprotests began in March had risen to more than 1,600 people.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe call
\ncame ahead of a key UN Security Council debate set for Wednesday at which
\nSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to deliver a report on Syria.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nSome 53
\npeople are said to have been killed across Syria since Saturday, bringing the
\ntotal number of reported fatalities to over 1,600 people. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nAt least
\nfive civilians were reportedly killed in the central town of Hama on Tuesday.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“Any honest
\nexamination of the facts of the horrific situation in Syria should be more than
\nsufficient to  <\/span>persuade the Security
\nCouncil to come up with a legally-binding resolution, not just a meek statement.
\n <\/span>A mere diplomatic appeal to the Syrian
\nauthorities to end the ongoing violence against civilians will fall far short
\nof what the situation demands,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s
\nDirector for Middle East and North Africa.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“The UN
\nmust also impose a complete arms embargo on Syria as well as freezing the overseas
\nassets of President Assad and his senior associates,” <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian
\ngovernment is facing increasing pressure to end its crackdown on anti-government
\nprotesters, amid widespread international condemnation. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nTurkey’s
\nforeign minister met President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Tuesday in a
\nreported attempt to persuade the Syrian leader to end the violence against
\ncivilians.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a rare
\nmove, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah summarily recalled his country’s ambassador
\nfrom Damascus on Sunday and condemned Syria’s brutal crackdown on protests,
\ncalling for an end to the army’s “killing machine”. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nMost Arab
\ncountries have also condemned the violence, leaving Syria increasingly
\nisolated. The Gulf Co-operation Council, made up of Saudi
\nArabia, Kuwait,
\nthe UAE, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar, has denounced the excessive
\nuse of force against the demonstrators, while the League of Arab States has
\nvowed to <\/strong>use “step-by-step
\npersuasion” to resolve the conflict.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nA joint
\nBrazilian, Indian and South African official delegation was due to arrive in
\nDamascus on Tuesday to urge the Syrian authorities to end the violence. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nKuwait and
\nBahrain have also recalled their ambassadors to Damascus.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nMany of the
\nmore than 1,600 people killed are reported to be protesters and local residents
\nshot by live ammunition from the security forces and the army. 
\nThousands of others have been arrested since the protests began, with many
\nbeing held incommunicado at unknown locations.
\n“The crimes committed by Syrian security forces appear to be part of a
\nwidespread, as well as systematic, attack against the civilian population, and
\nso to amount to crimes against humanity” said Malcolm Smart.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n“The UN
\nSecurity Council must also refer the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of
\nthe International Criminal Court, as it did with Libya’s government in
\nFebruary, following the violent repression of protests there,” he added.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/news-and-updates\/un-urged-issue-resolution-syria-bloodshed-2011-08-09<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nWorld
\nleaders must take immediate concrete action to respond to the crisis in Syria,
\nAmnesty International said today, amid reports that the death toll since mass
\nprotests began in March had risen to more than 1,600 people.The call
\ncame ahead of a key UN Security Council debate set for Wednesday at which
\nSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to deliver a report on Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}