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Syria Decries War Crimes Petition
 [An Nahar] Syria's foreign ministry on Saturday decried a petition by 58 countries calling for a war crimes case against Damascus...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , in a letter to the president of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Security Council. "The Syrian government regrets the persistence of these countries in following the wrong approach and refusing to recognize the duty of the Syrian state to protect its people from terrorism imposed from abroad," it said. The ministry accused some signatories to the petition of funding, training and harboring "terrorists," a blanket term used to describe opposition forces trying to topple the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Horror of Homs... . Posted by: Fred 2013-01-20 |
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