Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad

Syrian security resumed its crackdown on protesters in the city of Homs, and reports indicate that they are rounding up organizers all over the country, prompting the UN secretary general to demand international action.

People residing in Homs have told the international media via Skype that armored vehicles are once more in the streets of the city and snipers watch from the top of the buildings.

Two people have been reported dead in Homs on Tuesday, including an 15-year-old boy, as the security forces opened fire at a checkpoint. Residents discovered five bodies in the streets, probably from the attacks on Monday.

Arrests of prominent rebellion leaders were made in Damascus, Deir al-Zour, Daraa, and Hama, according to the saying of an activist network.

People fear that the government will launch an attack the size of the one launched by Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, who stormed Hama in the 1980s and left some 10,000 dead.

That is why calls for armed resistance have become more insistent in Homs, as people see the security forces killing their families, though activists fear that this would be just the excuse Bashar al Assad needs.

International pressure against the regime increases after the European Union announced last week a ban on oil, which would cut off a major currency reserve for the regime.

In New Zealand UN secretary general spoke of international coherent action that must be taken in order to prevent Assad from killing more innocent people. Ban Ki-moon said it was too late for Bashar’s regime to do something to make things right, as it is too late to be the one to implement democratic changes.

It is expected that UN secretary general’s words would give European and American members of the UN security council reasons to demand the freezing of Assad family’s goods and imposing a travel ban. Russia and China are expected to defend Damascus at the UN, and the other BRIC members, India, Brazil and wannabe South Africa, are expected to show concern over sanctions.

More than 2,000 people were killed in the five-month confrontation between the people and the regime of Bashar al-Assad without any serious measure taken by the international community against this regime.

Crackdown in Syria

Two weeks ago, al-Assad announced that the crackdown on civilians was over, after he had killed 100 people in one day in the city of Hama, at the beginning of the Ramadan. Assad promised new elections in February next year and reforms, but his army continued killing people almost every day since then.

International community, especially the United States, seem to have mounted a far disproportioned response to what is going on in Syria as compared to their reaction toward what went on in Libya, where a NATO intervention was approved in February and succeeded in toppling the leader Muammar al Qaddafi far before the number of civilian deaths reached 2,000.

In Egypt, United States president Barack Obama was forced to renounce the ties with the traditional ally in the region before the number of dead was of 800.

Syrian president appeared to be given time to put an end to the situation, any end. After a meeting with Assad, Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu had said that it would take up to two weeks until situation would return to normal. At exactly two weeks after that statement, Assad announced the ceasefire on his own citizens.

UN Human Rights have condemned the atrocities in Syria and sent people on the field to investigate what was going on, and to gather evidence that would serve the possible issuance of an international arrest warrant in the name of the president.

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