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Wednesday 17 July 2013 - 08:30

Syrian crisis taking 5,000 lives a month, UN says

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Syrian crisis taking 5,000 lives a month, UN says
Ivan Simonovic made the remarks during a briefing to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.
 
"In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule," he added.
 
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. According to the UN, more than 90,000 people have been killed and millions of others displaced in the violence.
 
Damascus says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.
 
The Syrian government says the West and its regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey -- are supporting the militants.
 
The militants from a number of countries have been crossing into Syria to fight against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, contributing to an international effort to destabilize the Arab country.
 
Several international human rights organizations say the foreign-sponsored militants have committed war crimes in Syria.
 
The Syrian troops have recently conducted successful clean-up operations across the country, inflicting heavy losses on Takfiri extremists.
 
The Syrian Army’s push against the militants rattled their foreign sponsors.
 
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said on June 26 that Saudi Arabia is trembling with fear because of the Syrian Army’s recent successes against the militants.
 
In a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal insisted on June 25 that the militants in Syria must be armed with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons.
 
Zoubi said that the Saudi weapons and money is the main reason behind bloodshed in Syria, adding that Faisal “is lost in the Syrian blood.”
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