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Syrian opposition appeals for international help
Syria’s opposition appealed for international backing on Sunday, a day after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad to end his bloody crackdown on an uprising that has raged for almost 11 months.
Meanwhile, a repot from Sofia quoted US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as vowing on Sunday that the US would strengthen existing sanctions against the Syrian regime and seek further ones to dry up funding and arms shipments.
“We will work to seek regional and national sanctions against Syria and strenghten the ones we have. They will be implemented to the fullest to dry up the sources of funding and the arms shipments that are keeping the regime’s war machine going,” Clinton told journalists in Sofia on Sunday.
The double-veto at the Security Council outraged the US and its European allies as well as Arab leaders, and intensified fears among regime opponents that Assad will now unleash even greater violence to crush protesters, feeling that he has protection by his top ally Moscow.
A Syrian state-run newspaper vowed Sunday that Damascus will press its crackdown on the uprising until stability is restored. Early Saturday, regime forces bombarded the restive central city of Homs in what activists said was the deadliest incident of the uprising. They reported more than 200 killed, but the regime denied any bombardment. In new reports of violence on Sunday, the Britian-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops and army defectors clashed in the northwestern province of Idlib and the southern province of Daraa and said nine soldiers were killed in Idlib.
A report from Canberra quoted officials as saying a mob ransacked the Syrian Embassy in Australia after reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Syria’s nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent.
Syria’s opposition appealed for international backing on Sunday, a day after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad to end his bloody crackdown on an uprising that has raged for almost 11 months.
Meanwhile, a repot from Sofia quoted US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as vowing on Sunday that the US would strengthen existing sanctions against the Syrian regime and seek further ones to dry up funding and arms shipments.
“We will work to seek regional and national sanctions against Syria and strenghten the ones we have. They will be implemented to the fullest to dry up the sources of funding and the arms shipments that are keeping the regime’s war machine going,” Clinton told journalists in Sofia on Sunday.
The double-veto at the Security Council outraged the US and its European allies as well as Arab leaders, and intensified fears among regime opponents that Assad will now unleash even greater violence to crush protesters, feeling that he has protection by his top ally Moscow.
A Syrian state-run newspaper vowed Sunday that Damascus will press its crackdown on the uprising until stability is restored. Early Saturday, regime forces bombarded the restive central city of Homs in what activists said was the deadliest incident of the uprising. They reported more than 200 killed, but the regime denied any bombardment. In new reports of violence on Sunday, the Britian-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops and army defectors clashed in the northwestern province of Idlib and the southern province of Daraa and said nine soldiers were killed in Idlib.
A report from Canberra quoted officials as saying a mob ransacked the Syrian Embassy in Australia after reports of the bloodiest episode yet in Syria’s nearly yearlong crackdown on dissent.
