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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Report: Syrian operation can be Crime against humanity - voice of America

An image taken from footage uploaded on YouTube shows hundreds of thousands of Syrian anti-government protesters flooding the streets of the central city of Hama on July 1, 2011 An image taken of uploaded images on YouTube shows hundreds of thousands of Syrian anti-government demonstrators in the floods in the streets of the central city of Hama on July 1, 2011

Amnesty International, explains the forces of Syrian security may have committed crimes against humanity during a deadly month last in a town near the Lebanese border.

Citing the evidence, the Group of accused London-based rights Syria of rounding of the scores of male residents of Talkalakh and torture, most of them, at least nine people die in custody.

In a report released Wednesday, Amnesty said that the attack appears to be part of a "widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population," which constitutes crimes against humanity.

The Group urged the United Nations Security Council to refer to the international situation in Syria to the Criminal Court.

On Tuesday, the Syrian Government forces opened fire on civilians in the Centre of the city of Hama, killing at least 11 people. The militants, said that the shooting took place after that troops tanks to the outskirts of the city in apparent preparation for assault.

In response, the residents implemented dozens of road and burned debris dams to prevent tanks ringtone now advance the city. Hama residents burning tires and garbage cans and established sand barriers and other obstacles to block the onslaught expected.

Security forces also mounted a second attack Tuesday in the Northwest of the Idlib province.

The United States and Britain urged the Syria to immediately withdraw its forces from Hama and other cities.

Reuters quoted a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry Tuesday that the call to the Security Council of the United Nations to take a stand firm against what he called "unacceptable, fierce army crackdown the Syria.".

Hama is one of the centres of opposition to the autocratic rule of 11 years President Bashar al-Assad and was the site of an anti-Assad Friday gathering that attracts hundreds of thousands of demonstrators.

Monday, soldiers sealed off the coast of the city and raided houses, one month after the withdrawal of the forces of the Government. At least 20 people were arrested in the ongoing suppression of the Syria on dissent.

Unlike its European partners and the United States, the France said that Mr. Assad has lost his legitimacy to rule. But a French campaign for their condemnation of the repression of the United Nations has met with resistance, Russian and Chinese.

But the Minister for Foreign Affairs Alain Juppe - who held talks in Moscow last week-, said Tuesday, and there are signs that Russia begins to question his policy of the Syria. Juppe said that he tried to sway his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, but that the Russia is always threatening to veto any United Nations resolution against the Syria.

Rights groups say the forces of Syrian security killed in less than 1 300 civilians since mid-March in trying to suppress the uprising against the Government. The Syrian Government said terrorist and Islamic militants have killed hundreds of security during the same period.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

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