U.N. Official Rebukes Syria

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:47:14 +0000

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U.N. Official Rebukes Syria Over Violence
By Rick Gladstone and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, Feb. 13/14, 2012

The top United Nations human rights official offered a grim appraisal of the Syrian conflict on Monday, accusing the government there of interpreting the repeated diplomatic failure to end the violence as a green light to escalate deadly attacks on its political opponents with indiscriminate brutality and “overwhelming force” over the past 10 days.

The appraisal, delivered in a tone of cold frustration by the official, Navi Pillay, the high commissioner for human rights, was presented at an unusual meeting of the 193-nation General Assembly devoted entirely to the Syrian conflict, despite strenuous objections from Syria and a few of its dwindling number of allies, notably Iran and North Korea [....]

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By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 4:09 PM EST, Tue Feb. 14, 2012

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U.N. Official Rebukes Syria