SYRIA: The international community condemns massacre of Hula

SYRIA: The international community condemns massacre Hula
?????? AFP ? Convictions multiplied Saturday after the massacre in Houla, where UN observers have counted a hundred deaths, including over 32 children, the Secretary General of the UN accusing Damascus to violate international law and its commitments.

???? Kuwait: call for arming the rebels after the massacre of Syrian Hula Hundreds of Kuwaitis, including MPs, protested Saturday in front of the Syrian Embassy to denounce the massacre of Hula, Syria, and seek weapons of Free Syrian Army (SLA). The Islamist MP Jamaan al-Harbash urged Arab Gulf States and Turkey to intervene to protect civilians in Syria and warned that if governments could not act, ?they should open the door to the peoples of the fight.? Falah al-Sawwagh, another Islamist parliamentarian, called for sending arms to the ASL and called the Kuwaitis to exert pressure on their government to provide greater assistance to the Syrian people.

Paris, London and Berlin have also denounced the killings, but noted the call by the Syrian Army free (ASL), composed mostly deserters, to conduct ?air raids? against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The opposition accused the authority to have committed the massacre that would have done, according to Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), 114 dead, including 32 children.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan?s envoy condemned ?in strongest terms the death, confirmed by the UN observers, dozens of men, women and children ?at Hula, in central Syria, said Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for Mr. Ban.

?This terrible and revolting crime, in which force was used indiscriminate and disproportionate, is a flagrant violation of international law and commitments made by the Syrian government to cease its use of heavy weapons in cities and violence whatsoever, ?still felt MM. Ban and Annan, adding that ?the perpetrators of these crimes must be tried.?

Damascus, General Robert Mood, Chief Observer, also condemned ?the brutal tragedy? and said that the observers had counted over 92 dead, including 32 children under 10 years, adding that teams were pursuing the count on site.

The opposition has attributed the massacre to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, while the official SANA news agency accused of ?armed terrorist groups? to have ?burned and blew up houses Friday night (? ) to believe that the Syrian armed forces bombed the area. ?

According to the OSDH

, the bombing began Friday afternoon on the outskirts of Houla and continued until Saturday at dawn.

General Mood has not appointed officials, but stressed that ?observers have confirmed (?) the use of artillery fired from tanks.?

ASL is mainly composed of soldiers who deserted with their arms, while the army tanks are still deployed in cities in violation of the Annan plan intended to end the violence.

Warning against a ?civil war?, General Mood has called on the government ?to stop using heavy weapons? and ?stop resorting to violence?, also urged ?the opposition to s? refrain from using violence ?to achieve a? political solution ?.

? The Annan Plan will go to hell ?

Meanwhile, ASL no longer felt bound by its commitment to the Annan plan, six weeks after agreeing to a cease-fire under the plan, technically entered into force April 12 but been consistently ignored.

?Unless the Security Council of the UN to take urgent decisions to protect civilians, the Annan plan will go to hell,? said the ASL.

Previously, General Mustapha al-Sheikh, head of the Military Council of the ASL, called ?urgently friendly countries from Syria to form a military alliance outside the Security Council of the UN, to conduct targeted air strikes against gangs of Assad. ?

the approach of Mr. Annan?s visit to Syria planned for earlier this week, the condemnations of the massacre of Houla have multiplied.

Berlin said he was ?horrified and shocked?, while Paris has condemned the ?atrocities? inflicted on the Syrians.

?I take immediate contacts to meet in Paris the Group of Friends of the Syrian people,? announced the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius.

His British counterpart, William Hague, called for ?a strong international response? and announced his intention to seek an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the UN ?in the coming days.?

Meanwhile, the Gulf Cooperation Council has ?condemned the massacre in Houla by Syrian regular forces? calling the ?international community to shoulder its responsibilities to put an end to the bloodshed in Syria.?

United Arab Emirates for their part, asked for an urgent meeting of the Arab League while in Kuwait, several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the Syrian Embassy to demand the arming ASL.

Elsewhere in Syria, the violence is Saturday 20 dead, including five soldiers, according to OSDH, which has reported numerous protests over the killing of Hula.

According to the OSDH

, more than 12,600 people have died since the beginning of the revolt against the regime, mostly civilians killed by government forces.

Moreover, the fate of 13 kidnapped Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria on May 22 was uncertain when Beirut was announced Friday they were released and were in Turkey.

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