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Syrian army committing crimes against
humanity: Italian minister
Monday July 23, 2012 08:41:23 PM, AKI
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Brussels: The
Syrian army is committing crimes against humanity as well as
ethnic cleansing of the population in its bid to quell the revolt
against President Bashar al-Assad, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio
Terzi has said.
"This is an absolutely unprecedented assault, a massacre of its
own people," Terzi said in Brussels where European Union foreign
ministers Monday beefed up sanctions and an arms embargo against
the Syrian government.
"The army has gone far beyond the level of repression we have seen
other countries that have risen up in the Arab Spring. This has
the whiff of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity."
The Assad regime, dominated by the minority Alawite sect, has
drawn international condemnation for its bloody repression of the
16-month rebellion against its rule.
The Red Cross has defined the situation as a civil war and there
have been reports of sectarian killings, massacres and torture.
The UN Security Council last week extended its observation mission
in Syria for another month but Terzi ruled out NATO intervention.
Despite the bloodshed, Terzi claimed the situation in Syria was
not comparable to that in Libya last year, when the UN authorised
a NATO operation that helped rebels oust longtime leader Muammar
Gaddafi from power.
The EU Monday agreed to freeze the assets of 26 Syrians and three
firms close to Assad in the 17th round of sanctions and to inspect
vessels and planes suspected of carrying arms.
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