Bashar al-Assad and Dmitry Medvedev

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Bashar al-Assad and Dmitry Medvedev

Russia is showing signs of slowly shifting its position toward the regime in Syria, as the crackdown on the population that protests against Assad’s regime is growing more and more violent by the hour, living behind scores of dead people.
On Thursday the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev reminded that he sent a personal letter to Bashar al-Assad in which he had warned him to implement changes demanded by the people, telling him that otherwise he was bound to suffer a “sad fate.”
He also told Assad that he needed to negotiate with the people, to reinstall peace in the country and to make sure that things get back to normal.
Now that the situation has escalated and a lot of people are dead, the president of Russia adds, Russia will have to make some decisions, without specifying what kind of decisions he had in mind.
He said that as the situation was changing for the worse, the Russian approach on Syria must also change.
In the past few months, Russia has warned al-Assad that he was using instruments from “40 years ago,” but also warned against any military intervention in Syria, opposing a U.N. resolution on the Arab state.
Opposition to the UN resolution however seems to have been abandoned earlier in the week, when Russian ambassador to the U.N. said that it would be possible for Russia not to oppose a condemnation of what happens in Syria.
On Wednesday, after months of pressure applied by Germany and other powers in the UN Security Council a presidential statement, which is weaker than a resolution, condemned the crimes committed by Assad’s regime in Syria, and demanded that the violence against the population be stopped immediately.
A special U.N. envoy to Syria will be dispatched so that he may convey the message to the authorities in Damascus. Russia did not oppose the U.N. statement.

Crackdown in Syria

Human rights group already condemned the message for being much too soft and demanded a legally bounding resolution that would condemn the atrocities of the regime and impose an embargo on arms to Syria.
They also slammed the U.N. for not backing the investigation into what happened in this country since the crackdown started, provided that the government in Damascus has prohibited international observers to gather information in the field.
Meanwhile, the Western leaders consider further sanctions on Syria after the first Friday of Ramadan was a bloody one in the Muslim country, leaving 24 people dead, killed by security forces.
Democratic leaders, though excluded a military intervention, consider the opportunity to freeze the regime’s assets, and some even took steps toward this decision.
However, Bashar al-Assad is fighting for political survival, and probably for survival at all, and is much unlikely that he could be stopped by freezing assets.
Under the pretext that the demonstrators were nothing but a bunch of thieves, instigated by the Americans and the Zionists, Assad launched a military attack on Hama, the city that staged the protests against him, as they did back in the 1980s against his father.
His army killed more than 100 people in the first day of intervention, and more were to come during the week.
The death doll raised to some 1,600 people killed, and thousands wounded or missing during five months of protests.

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