UN officials expressed concern that the situation was rapidly devolving into a civil war in Syria today, with violence between Assad regime soldiers and defectors escalating following months of crackdowns on civilian protesters.
Protesters were still among the 36 people slain today, but rights groups also reported at least 25 soldiers were killed in the fighting. The rest of the slain were in the town of Banash, near the border with Turkey.
The United Nations also announced that once again they are raising the number slain since the latest protest movement began, saying they now believe more than 3,000 people have died.
As the violence continues, the international community continues to debate the situation at the UN Security Council, with NATO member nations demanding unspecified “measures” against Syria. Both Russia and China continue to oppose any UN Security Council threats, citing NATO’s use of a similar resolution on Libya as an excuse for a war.
Over a million people are killed in Iraq.., everywhere US and EU militarism regime been enggaged people been killed by hundred of thousands if not more.., that is from Vietnam war to present wars conducted by US and NATO militarism regimes in Afghanistan in Pakistan and now in Africa.., why is it that no one from EU or for that matter from US democratic party asks the ICC to investigate the matters. Second.., why is it that US and EU are always in terms with changing regimes in nrothern part of persian Gulf and letting the Saudis and UAE do what they want not even questioning their inhumans acts.., or for that matter peoples democratical rights from Jordan to Saudi Arabia and beyound. Why is it that Sweden which use to be considered one of the "democratic" countries in the world is cooperating with dictators as US and rest of the EU wanting to "change the world" and therefore they need to be involved with NATO bombing operations in Libya.., if nothing else one could call it the growth in social political neo fascism happening in US and EU. Close the democratic party there is no democracy coming out of this party.., so goes for Social democrats in Sweden.
The UN, up to this day, does not dare to officially declare the number of casualties of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by America and its allies. The same invasion and occupation which the UN chief declared illegal. The UN does not dare to officially declare the number of the civilian deaths caused by the NATO bombings of Libya which is also being carried out illegally by abusing the UNSC resolution of the no fly zone over Libya. So much for the UN.
As for the so called unrest in Syria. After Russia and China vetoed the American, French, English resolution on Syria, the trio have given Saudi Arabia and Jordan and Turkey a last chance to raise the level of violence in Syria hoping to force some kind of action on Syria by UNSC. Syria is being flooded with Saudi financed weapons by Turkish and Jordanian smugglers turned "revolutionary hands". The motivations of the Western trio are obvious. It is as usual geared toward the next major war in the Middle East. But what is also more interesting and important is the motives of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey. Of the three Turkey is the most back-stabbing, vicious and treasonous. What Turkey is obviously has its sights on is a Kurdish country comprised of entire Iraqi Kurdistan and the parts of Syria that Turkey hopes Syria will lose to the NATO invasion of Syria. The solution that the Turkey has for its "mountain turks" problem is to give them a country outside of Turkey. However, the landlocked geography inhabited by the Kurds do not make it a viable solution as it is now. By chopping off a part of Syria and attaching it to the Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdish nation as envisioned by Turkey will have access to open waters of the Mediterranean. That way the the "mountain turks" can either move there or just become plain turks. What the Turks do not understand is that their position is far shakier than the Europeans have pictured for them. If Turkey is persistent enough it will not only not gain its long held wish of getting rid of or assimilating the "mountain turks", it will also lose a lot of what is knows as Turkey.
But that is all in the future. What is important now is that Syria will be the grave of Salafies and Wahabies of Saudia Arabia and Egypt. The Egyptian faction is already feeling the heat, and it will not be long before it is exposed throughout the Middle East and the world for the traitors they are and have always been.