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| Sarkozy Says France Will Not Stay Silent on Syrian 'Scandal' |
| 2012-01-21 |
| [An Nahar] President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... declared Friday that La Belle France cannot stand silently by and allow Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad to put down the pro-democracy revolt in his country. "We cannot accept the ferocious repression by the Syrian leadership of its people, a repression that has led the entire country into chaos, and a chaos that will help faceless myrmidons of all kinds," he said. In March last year Assad's regime was rocked by a popular uprising, part of the so-called Arab Spring pro-democracy revolts sweeping the region, and his security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown. At first he faced mainly unarmed Mass Street protests, but armed rebel groups including army deserters have now sprung up as well. Last month under mounting international pressure, Assad agreed to allow observers from the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... monitor the crisis, and pledged to send his troops back to their barracks. But the violence has continued. Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said on Thursday that Syrian activists report that 506 civilians have been killed by security forces and a further 490 jugged since the observers arrived. |
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| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-21 01:25 |