Bashar Step Down!

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Bashar Step Down!

The United States of America has finally stepped up and demanded the president of Syria to resign his office by a statement made by Obama administration on Thursday, when new sanctions on Syria were announce with the purpose of putting a stop to the blood bath the regime in Damascus made in the country for the last two weeks.
In the statement, Obama said that the future of the people of Syria must be made by them but that Bashar al-Assad was standing in their way, preventing them from taking the future into their hands.
He added that Assad’s calls for reform were false as he continued the crackdown on the peaceful protestors in the streets of the great Syrian cities, and said it was about time Assad stood down.
The former set of sanctions prohibited U.S. entities to deal and trade with Syrian regime, and with Syrian petroleum companies. By the new set of sanctions, other Syrian companies have been added to the prohibited list, including the national General Petroleum Company, which is responsible for the transactions with gas and oil in Syria.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also said that the regime’s brutal repression must be stopped and reminded that the EU has maintained this idea on many occasions, but that the regime in Damascus turned a deaf year to their calls.

Bashar al-Assad

The call of Barack Obama for the Syrian president to step down comes the same day Bashar al-Assad announced that the crackdown on the protesting cities has stopped.
While al-Assad was telling these good tidings to the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Arab Organization for the Human Rights was announcing that 25 Syrian people were killed on Thursday.
The phone call Bashar al-Assad made to Ban Ki-moon comes before a UN Security Council meeting, where Ban Ki-moon is expected to call an international court to investigate the crimes committed by the Syrian regime, who is accused, unofficially and so far unconfirmed, of having killed more than 2,000 people since the unrest began five months ago.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared on Thursday Bashar al-Assad to Muammar al Qaddafi and said that he had told Qaddafi to stop but he kept on killing civilians.
These words could be taken to mean, on one hand, that Assad could face the same fate as Qaddafi, and, on the other hand, that Turkey had no objection to further action against the regime.
On a previous occasion, Turkish PM had stressed out that the Syrian problem was for Turkey an internal one, and that no one would take action against Assad without consulting Ankara on it.
Ban Ki-moon expressed his concerns at the escalation of violence in Syria and especially in the Mediterranean port of Latakia, where thousands of Palestinian refugees are said to have fled the camps fearing for their lives after the regime opened fire on the city from the sea.
Ban explained his conversation with Assad and said that he had told him that all police and security forces actions must be stopped immediately and that the Syrian president told him they had stopped completely.
The UN secretary general said that Assad promised he would carry out an entire set of reforms, including constitutional changes and elections, but the Western countries seem very little inclined to believe the president that chose to kill his own people in order to stay in office.

Protest against Bashar al-Assad

Ban also said that Assad agreed to a UN team in charge of monitoring on the ground the scope of the retaliation of the Syrian government against civilians.
There is a possibility that the United Nations Security Council refer the Syrian case to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, in which case, if necessary, an international arrest warrant could be issued in the name of Bashar al-Assad.
Meanwhile, FBI is investigating the way the regime in Damascus is intimidating the people who live abroad.

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