Posted on 04/29/2011 6:27:10 PM PDT by Nachum
Another 62 shot dead in cold blood in the streets today, just the latest in a series of Friday post-mosque slaughters. Good enough for a unanimous vote by the UN Human Rights Council? Why … no:
At an Special Session in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, members of the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution condemning Syria’s human rights abuses and calling for a UN Mission to investigate the violence…
The resolution expresses “grave concern with respect to alleged deliberate killings, arrests, and instances of torture of peaceful protestors by the Syrian authorities,” and “unequivocally condemns the use of lethal violence against peaceful protestors by the Syrian authorities…”
The US resolution was revised to win more support; initial language calling for an official Commission of Inquiry to investigate the violence, as was called for in Libya, was changed to instead be handled by Human Rights Council staffers, though language still suggests a gathering of evidence, saying the “mission” will “investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law and…establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated, with a view to avoiding impunity and ensuring full accountability.”
Twenty-six countries led by the U.S. voted yes; nine, including China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Russia, voted no while another seven, among them Saudi Arabia, abstained. The U.S. also announced new sanctions on top Syrian officials, which won’t do anything to stop the shooting but will at least drive home the administration’s disapproval.
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The next steps are “miffed” “peeved” and “irked”.
Syria massacres it’s citizens wholesale.
Obama and all the other world troublemakers need a visit from “Dinsdale”.
Soon as they figure out how to blame Israel.
I was not paying attention , but now there is no oil there correct.
This is what happens when a supposedly international peace organization allows countries that have absolutely mp omterest im human rights to chair and sit on such a committee.
You reap what you sow.
They won’t write a letter, they will just demand US troops to die for the poor Syrian peoples.
Ya, all in CAPS!
Well next thing you know they will be double mad. Probably want to bomb somebody that may do something like that.
Well next thing you know they will be double mad. Probably want to bomb somebody that may do something like that.
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