Syria’s opposition calls on UN to prevent ‘massacres’
Head of the Syrian National Council (SNC) and Syrian opposition chief Abdelbasset Sida speaks during a news conference in Abu Dhabi early on Sunday July 29, 2012. — Photo Reuters
BEIRUT: Syria’s main opposition group called on Sunday on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the fighting in the northern city of Aleppo, saying that the regime is planning “massacres.”
“The Syrian National Council calls on the UN Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the situation in Aleppo, Damascus and Homs,” the SNC said, adding that the “regime (of President Bashar al-Assad) is preparing to storm and commit massacres in Aleppo.”
As fighting raged in a major regime offensive on the city, the SNC warned that Assad’s army was preparing “massacres of the type committed in Houla, Al-Kubeir and Treimsa,” in reference to attacks on villages in the central provinces of Homs and Hama.
The UN Security Council should “take action to provide civilians with the needed protection from brutal bombing campaigns,” the SNC statement said.
It also called on “countries which are friendly to the Syrian people to take serious steps towards the establishment of a no-fly zone, and the creation of safe zones where two million displaced people can seek protection.”
Syria is being places into the dark ages the islamic world can stop this immediately
however the islamic world is to concerned about their own independent states yet with in one week
you could have a large conference chaired by religous, Political and economic as well as human rights groups primerily from the islamic world this would be the start of a great endavour to becomig a unified peaceful ummah
and an example of real faith and the harmony it has intailed for the last 1400 years this will for definate stop the killing of innocent Syrians who have nothing to do with this civil unrest in the county
if peace needs to return to Syria then the opposition needs to
sit down with the Syria's current government in Islamabad Pakistan and formulate a framework
in which all the issues could be discussed.
If both sides do not find a consensus then it is likely that Syria will go into a total civil war based on Sectarian lines
Pakistan being a country which comprises of various ethnic minorities can really push this forward
If Pakistan with its contacts with the richer Gulf states and Saudi Arabia can be a bridge between the two factions
why does Pakistan not give this a try. If the Syrian foreign minister is in Iran he can also travel to Pakistan
Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria. I wonder who is next. I foresee a peaceful neighbourhood for Israel. It may come at a cost of millions of sacrifized innocent Muslims.