UN: Death toll in Syria rises to 2,600.

Z.O.D!!!

"GENEVA — At least 2,600 people have died in the six months of unrest that has swept Syria, the UN's top human rights official said Monday, as a panel was named to investigate abuses in the Arab country.
The figure released by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay adds to evidence that Syrian leader Bashar Assad is continuing his crackdown on anti-government dissidents despite international pressure.

"According to reliable sources on the ground, the number of those killed since the onset of the unrest in mid-March 2011 in that country has now reached at least 2,600," Pillay said. She added that her office continues to be denied access to Syria.
"The situation in Syria is still dire," Pillay told reporters after a speech at the UN Human Rights Council.
Last month, the Geneva-based body held an emergency meeting at which it voted overwhelmingly to demand Assad's government end its bloody crackdown.
"From the time that the Human Rights Council passed its resolution and the Security Council has addressed the matter, the situation in Syria has worsened and peaceful protesters have been killed," Pillay said, adding that she was "shocked" by the rising death toll.
The council on Monday named three independent experts to lead an international investigation of allegations of human rights abuses in Syria.
They are Turkish women's rights expert Yakin Erturk; former UN investigator for Myanmar Sergio Pinheiro of Brazil; and Karen Abu Zayd, a U.S. citizen and former head of UNRWA, the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees."


Supposeably 400 off the amount of people who lost their lives in the September 11th attacks, when is the International community going to take its head out of the sand and actively do something about this massacre....if the real death toll is remotely close to this figure, Bashar al-Assad has to be removed from power sooner rather than later.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=140395286

Nodin

I'd say its actually far worse than that, given theres 10,000 or so been detained.

czx

Nodin wrote: »

I'd say its actually far worse than that, given theres 10,000 or so been detained.

Who's going to remove him?

jugger0

Z.O.D!!! wrote: »

Supposeably 400 off the amount of people who lost their lives in the September 11th attacks, when is the International community going to take its head out of the sand and actively do something about this massacre...

And do what exactly? do you want the yanks to bomb them or something?

mike65

Syria will solve itself one way or the other, no one is going in as Iran/Turkey/Israel/Lebanon tinderbox makes it impossible.

wes

Thats pretty horrible. Hopefully the Syrian people will over thrown, that tyrant Assad and bring him and his regime to justice.

Billy86

Can somebody explain to me why there has been no help from abroad here? Nevermind the NATO-type air campaign in Libya, but even condemnation or something to 'urge' it on? Are Syria a much, much, much bigger military power than I had thought, or is there something else up here? This has been going on for a long while now, and most other nations seem almost petrified to say or do a thing about it.

I know they have links to Iran, but the two don't even share a border as best I know?

RoryMc23

Billy86 wrote: »

Can somebody explain to me why there has been no help from abroad here? Nevermind the NATO-type air campaign in Libya, but even condemnation or something to 'urge' it on? Are Syria a much, much, much bigger military power than I had thought, or is there something else up here? This has been going on for a long while now, and most other nations seem almost petrified to say or do a thing about it.

Israel prefers Assad in charge of Syria rather then an unknown quantity.

Temptamperu

There is some oil in Syria, mybe the US will "liberate" them

Sunnyisland

Rory Mc 23 wrote: »

Israel prefers Assad in charge of Syria rather then an unknown quantity.

Its not just Israel that prefers a stable government/country in syria,Turkey,lebanon,Iran, all need and and want a stable government there,Any international force especially by the us would be seen as very suspicious for the use of a better word by the syrian people and most likely turn into a iraq like civil war,There are also many thousand PLO members living there.

Nodin

czx wrote: »

Who's going to remove him?

The Syrians or no one. It's more complicated than Libya, and direct intervention would be a bad idea.

Manic Moran

Billy86 wrote: »

Can somebody explain to me why there has been no help from abroad here? Nevermind the NATO-type air campaign in Libya, but even condemnation or something to 'urge' it on? Are Syria a much, much, much bigger military power than I had thought, or is there something else up here? This has been going on for a long while now, and most other nations seem almost petrified to say or do a thing about it.

Russians and Chinese are more actively opposed to intervention in Syria than in Libya.

NTM