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UNITED NATIONS — The UN said its monitors in Syria were fired upon Thursday as they tried to reach the site of a new massacre that has ramped up fears of a drift toward all-out civil war.

In his strongest condemnation of the Syrian leader yet, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said President Bashar Assad had “lost all legitimacy”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 55 people were killed in Wednesday’s assault on Al Kubeir, a small Sunni farming enclave surrounded by Alawite villages in the central province of Hama.

Pro-regime militiamen swept through the farmlands, slaughtering women and children, activists said, as the opposition reacted by urging more armed rebels to bring down Assad’s brutal and defiant regime.

Al Kubeir incident comes after at least 108 people were killed in a May 25-26 massacre near the central town of Houla, most of them women and children who were summarily executed.

Addressing a special session of the UN General Assembly hours after the slaughter in Al Kubeir, Ban condemned the latest attack as “shocking and sickening” and laid the blame squarely on the Assad regime.

“The trail of blood leads back to those responsible,” he said. “Any regime or leader that tolerates such killing of innocents has lost its fundamental humanity.”

The UN said its four-vehicle convoy was hit by small arms fire in the nearby protest hub of Hama while en route to Al Kubeir. A vehicle was damaged but the observers were unhurt.

“The patrol was forced to withdraw to a nearby government checkpoint, said UN spokesperson Farhan Haq. “The monitors were not able to enter Al Kubeir today. They will try again tomorrow.”

Regime forces are accused of bombarding the tiny settlement of Al Kubeir before pro-militia thugs went on an afternoon killing spree, hacking, stabbing and shooting residents.

A resident from a nearby village told AFP the charred bodies of women and children still lay across Al Kubeir on Thursday.

“I saw something you cannot imagine. It was a horrifying massacre... people were executed and burned. Bodies of young men were taken away,” said Laith, who gave only his first name for fear of retribution.

“There are 49 confirmed and identified victims in Al Kubeir, the majority of them from Al Yateem family,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based observatory.

“Among the dead are 18 women and children,” he said, adding that six other people were also killed on Wednesday in a village near Al Kubeir.

Earlier reports from opposition groups had put the death toll at between 87 and 100.

A video posted on YouTube showed bodies of several children, including babies, wrapped in blankets and white plastic body bags. Some were charred beyond recognition.

Damascus denied responsibility and, as it has done repeatedly in the past, pointed the finger at “terrorists” backed by foreign forces.

“A terrorist group committed a heinous crime in the Hama region which claimed nine victims. The reports by the media are contributing to spilling the blood of Syrians,” state media said.

The White House condemned the “outrageous targeted killings of civilians” and said that, coupled with the regime’s refusal to let UN observers verify the reports, it was an “affront to human dignity and justice”.

The US is pushing for a full transfer of power in Syria but is coming up against strong opposition from Russia and China, whose leaders fear foreign intervention could set dangerous precedents for their own countries.

Expressing horror at the latest massacre in Syria, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the major powers that it was time to threaten “consequences” if Assad does not act to halt the strife.

The international envoy, who secured Assad’s agreement to a six-point peace plan, grimly told the UN General Assembly: “I must be frank and confirm that the plan is not being implemented.”

He warned that without change in Syria, “the future is likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence and even all-out civil war”.

Annan was due to brief the UN Security Council later in the day and was expected to call for the creation of a contact group bringing together the Western powers and Russia and China in a bid to force Assad into talks.

The envoy is considering proposing that Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia join the permanent members of the Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the US — in the group, The Washington Post and Le Monde reported.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the latest atrocity “simply unconscionable”, and said a solution to the crisis required a ceasefire, a transfer of power and the formation of a representative interim government.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed there would be no UN Security Council mandate for outside intervention in Syria, indicating Moscow would use its veto to block any military action.

Russia and China have vetoed two Security Council resolutions against Assad’s regime, but backed Annan’s blueprint to end the conflict in which the observatory says more than 13,500 people have died since March 2011.
 
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Charred bodies proof of Syria massacre — witness


NICOSIA — The charred bodies of women and children lay scattered in houses across farmland in central Syria after a brutal massacre allegedly carried out by pro-regime militiamen, a witness told AFP on Thursday.

"Burned bodies of children and women and girls were on the ground," Laith, a young villager, told AFP by telephone from near Al Kubeir, a small Sunni enclave in the Syrian province of Hama after the killings on Wednesday.

"I saw something you cannot imagine. It was a horrifying massacre... people were executed and burned. Bodies of young men were taken away," Laith said, his voice trembling.

He gave only his first name for fear of being targeted by regime forces.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 55 people were killed in the assault on the hamlet.

Laith, from a nearby village, said the killings in Al Kubeir, where not "a single demonstration" had been held against the Damascus regime, began at around 2:00pm (1100 GMT) on Wednesday, when it was surrounded by tanks.

"They [Syrian troops] started to shell Al-Kubeir, and did not stop until 8:00pm," he said.

Pro-regime militiamen, known as shabiha, from nearby Alawite areas entered Al Kubeir, he said.

"They had guns and knives... They went there from nearby villages like Asileh, which is Alawite," he said of the offshoot of Shiite Islam from which Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family hails.

Laith said he had heard that the bodies of some young men from Al Kubeir were taken to Asileh.

"I heard from people I know in that village that last night [Wednesday] the shabiha militiamen drank and danced around their corpses, chanting songs praising Assad," an emotional Laith claimed.

He said the murders were triggered when a farmer from the area wanted to enter Al Kubeir but was turned away at a checkpoint between Asileh and Al Kubeir.

"The farmer still managed to get into Al Kubeir, and that's when regime forces started to deploy around the farmland," Laith said.

He vented his fury at UN observers for not arriving at the scene on Wednesday when they were called "about 30 times, begging them to come to Al Kubeir to see what was happening".

"But they did not come. They might as well be working with the shabiha. We just can't take this any more... people are being killed, everything is a set-up, a lie. We only have God to rely on. Only God will help us."

Activists from Hama also blamed the shabiha for the murders in the hamlet, where some 150 shepherds and farmers lived.

"I think they [the regime] used the thugs to deliver a message to the Syrian people that 'either you are with us or against us'," Abu Ghazi Al Hamwi — not his real name — told AFP via Skype.

"People who do not take sides are a target, because the regime is running out of options on how to stop the revolt. The regime tries to prove this is a war, not an uprising. And this is how they do it."

He said Al Kubeir was a Sunni enclave near Asileh and other Alawite villages.

"The violence is worst in areas where Sunni and Alawite live near each other. The regime is trying to break society in half," he said.

Hamwi said he spoke to a survivor of the massacre, who pretended to be dead after being hit on the head with a stick.

"He played dead in order to survive. He could barely speak. He was in a very bad shape. You can imagine, he'd just lost 35 members of his family," Hamwi said.

He also blamed UN observers for not heading to the site of the massacre quickly.

"When the army deployed there, and the shelling of around 20-25 houses started, activists called the UN monitors, who said they could not go because it was late in the day. For me that means they are just not professional," Hamwi said.

Another Hama-based activist, Mousab Al Hamadi said: "The regime wants to create a sectarian clash in the country. The regime wants to burn down the whole country."

Hamadi said Syrians had lost faith in the international community.

"Everyone here is depending on the FSA [Free Syrian Army]. The international community has failed" us, he said, referring to rebel forces.

Hamadi said there was no FSA presence in Al Kubeir which he said had not been reported to have taken sides in the uprising.

"For 40 years we have lived under oppression. We know more massacres like this may happen. We are ready to go to the end, even if it means half of the Syrian people might get killed," Hamadi said.
 
The ethnic cleansing starts,

a small Sunni farming enclave surrounded by Alawite villages in the central province of Hama.

The shabiha seem determined to start a civil war, the UN observers are being shot at Sunni's are being butchered for their farms and assad tells jokes about the dead. The Bosnain war took 6 years i wonder how long the innocent will be butchered before some thing is done in Syria?
 
China is only protecting its security as they probably feel the sunni rebels are al qaida who will eventually create trouble in east turkistan, but why does russia support this massacre is not clear.
 
BlackEagel GCC should send their regular armies into syria & stop seeking support from west as we in the west are really fed up of fighting zionist wars,

on a lighter note: 9/11 attackers were all saudi nationals.
 
China is only protecting its security as they probably feel the sunni rebels are al qaida who will eventually create trouble in east turkistan, but why does russia support this massacre is not clear.

China is doing what is right, it is standing against another massacre of syrians in the name of freedom peace and democracy powered by zionist controlled media.

If Israel has so much problems with syria, then it should send its elite IDF troops in syria instead of using innovative media techniques to rally people opinions on a war with Syria.

War with syria is suicidal as it is, We have russia, china, iran all of these are tired of zionist hyprocracy & double dealings, if a full blown war with syria breaks out iran will join, if iran joins the mighty daddy USA will join, russia, china, india and the whole of GCC will fall in the war - lets not fall for the zionist thugs like blackeagel who want to see the world destroyed.
 
BlackEagel GCC should send their regular armies into syria & stop seeking support from west as we in the west are really fed up of fighting zionist wars,

on a lighter note: 9/11 attackers were all saudi nationals.

GCC are seeking for international support to legitimize miltary intervention in Syria. KSA and GCC vowed to be the spearhead in any military operation. I think it's a matter of weeks as Bashar has lost the very little sanity he had and has just started using chamical weapons to obliterate anti-regeme areas. Iran which is the backer of this regime is the next on the list of targets as you know. I suppose. Iran has killed every tiny possibility of peace.
 
Junk it will be much easier to tal to you if you wore your pakistani flags.

In any case, indeed china is doing what is right, i.e. protect national interest even if that means death of innocents. something the likes of you keep blaming the west of doing.

Looks like your real problem with the west is something else, even though you have decided to enjoy their free medical.
 
If Israel has so much problems with syria, then it should send its elite IDF troops in syria instead of using innovative media techniques to rally people opinions on a war with Syria.
You missed it. As a practical matter, Israel doesn't have problems with Syria, or hasn't for some years. If you exclude the reactor the Israelis destroyed in 2007, I don't think Israel has had a direct military conflict with Syria since 1982, and the border has been quiet since 1973.

I, however, do have a problem with the Assads; Syrians deserve a chance for better, and I've said so for years. Most Israelis, citing the likelihood that Hezbollah would be the next ruler, disagreed. Only recently have Israelis caught on that that might not be the case at all.

if a full blown war with syria breaks out iran will join, if iran joins the mighty daddy USA will join, russia, china, india and the whole of GCC will fall in the war

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...ying-assess-syria-massacre.html#ixzz1x9mkDTy3
And in the disaster that follows Iran will blame the zionists for Iranians' own flawed decision-making. But the only "Zionist plot" I've heard of in connection with the Syrian Revolution is the preparation of refugee camps along the border, presumably to house fleeing Alawites.
 
GCC are seeking for international support to legitimize miltary intervention in Syria. KSA and GCC vowed to be the spearhead in any military operation. I think it's a matter of weeks as Bashar has lost the very little sanity he had and has just started using chamical weapons to obliterate anti-regeme areas. Iran which is the backer of this regime is the next on the list of targets as you know. I suppose. Iran has killed every tiny possibility of peace.

International support which is never coming ? lol you make my day you know US & Europe is dying of debt burden & you expect support :rofl: i mean really ? :D

Bashar has lost little sanity chemical weapons :blah: :blah: ( just like saddam had WMD) :rofl:

may be GCC has a big responsiblity on their shoulders to carry on the invasion on their own - democracy to Jordan, Viva la democraciya
 
Every time the activists witnessed and claimed it is pro-regime militant who did all the killings:undecided:
It is really weird that they never show us the convincing convincing proof。
 
You missed it. As a practical matter, Israel doesn't have problems with Syria, or hasn't for some years. If you exclude the reactor the Israelis destroyed in 2007, I don't think Israel has had a direct military conflict with Syria since 1982, and the border has been quiet since 1973.

No i haven't missed anything - Israel has problems with whole world not just Syria.

I, however, do have a problem with the Assads; Syrians deserve a chance for better, and I've said so for years. Most Israelis, citing the likelihood that Hezbollah would be the next ruler, disagreed. Only recently have Israelis caught on that that might not be the case at all.

And in the disaster that follows Iran will blame the zionists for Iranians' own flawed decision-making. But the only "Zionist plot" I've heard of in connection with the Syrian Revolution is the preparation of refugee camps along the border, presumably to house fleeing Alawites.

Syrians deserve a better chance just like the black Arficans deserved a better chance than getting burnt down in the shining becon on democracy in middle east? Africans In Israel Attacked by Zionist Government and Racist Mobs

I dont have problem with israelis wanting to live in israel or even wanting to have a state of their own if the two state settlement is made -
 
Every time the activists witnessed and claimed it is pro-regime militant who did all the killings:undecided:
It is really weird that they never show us the convincing convincing proof。

Convincing proof? just go to youtube and type "Syria", you will find (literally) tens of thousands of proofs. So UN and Arab monitors as well as the whole world are lying?
 
I meant legitimacy my friend, the coming days will tell everything, you are just fooling yourself. :cool:

looks like you have pressed the panic button, take a chill pill....................

Convincing proof? just go to youtube and type "Syria", you will find (literally) tens of thousands of proofs. So UN and Arab monitors as well as the whole world are lying?

youtube :rofl: all the videos made in by artists in news rooms? heyyy look the al-jazeera staff seems to have left the news channel, too much vomit ?

Al Jazeera reporter resigns over "biased" Syria coverage | Al Akhbar English

Al Jazeera exodus: Channel losing staff over

Al Jazeera Staff Quit Over Network

John E. Jones - Al-Jazeera employees resign over the channel

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/12/al-jazeera-exodus-channel-losing-staff-bias-94271/

Al Jazeera channel losing staff over 'bias' on Syria

Al Jazeera reporter resigns over "biased" Syria coverage | Al Akhbar English

Al-Jazeera correspondents resign over biased coverage of Syria - YouTube (yayyyy finally youtube video)

Sir junk is Irani shia son of bi*ch Abii

ouuu look where you were hidiing :rofl:

Sir junk is Irani shia son of bi*ch Abii

ouuu look where you were hidiing :rofl:
 

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