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Bashar al-Assad
Syrian opposition made an attempt to unite on Tuesday in a national council, but the mistrust and the divisions among them prevented them from presenting an unified force that could take over the country in a possible post-al-Assad era. Even though the opposition is fragmented by sectarian and ideological fight, they have been able to obtain serious gains against the regime. Still, they lack a clear leadership and a platform on which they may demand more freedoms and the ouster of the incumbent president.
The Syrian opposition met in Turkey, the neighbor of the embattled country, and the leaders gave very contradictory reports on it. Some of them said that a national council was formed, others said that there was no talk about this during the meeting.
Am opposition member in Turkey said that the opposition is structuring now, and that it was understandable for the people to move very carefully.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Human Rights Council met on Monday demanded that the crackdown be stopped, and that an investigation be launched into the allegations that more than 2,000 people have been killed during these months.
The UN Human Rights Council voted a resolution on Monday by 33 votes in favor, four against and nine absentations. The resolution was introduced by the Polish ambassador to UN, and it comes as a result of different violations of human rights in Syria. Russia, China and Cuba opposed the resolution and demanded that the mentioning of crimes against humanity be stricken out of the formulation.
Crackdown in Syria
According to the resolution, arbitrary executions, excessive use of force, killing and persecutions were all committed by the regime in Damascus for the last past months.
Experts say that the resolution adopted by the UN sends a strong message that the Syrian leadership cannot get away with what it did against the people.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said that the Syrian president failed to keep his promises, and demanded him to stop the crackdown on the citizens.
Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday against any possible international intervention in his country, and promised that elections would be held as soon as February 2012. Al-Assad said that the crackdown on people has stopped, or in his words, that the state contained the situation in the territory.
Even so, the Syrian human rights activists said that seven people were killed in the city of Homs on Monday, soon after the humanitarian aid agencies left the area. Syria permitted some humanitarian aid agencies to assess the needs of the civilians but accusations were made that the state was concealing things.
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