Envoy urges UN action over ‘horror’ in Syria

By C. J. Refsland on January 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

“Pray for the people of Syria!”

Syria’s war has reached “unprecedented levels of horror”, said UN-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi on Tuesday after dozens of men were found slaughtered just ahead of a donors’ conference for the devastated country.

Brahimi told the divided UN Security Council Tuesday it had to act immediately to halt the carnage epitomized by the at least 78 young men, each killed with a single bullet and dumped in the Quweiq River in the battlefront city of Aleppo.

Hundreds of distressed people watched as muddied corpses were dredged from the river.

Syria “is breaking up before everyone’s eyes,” Brahimi told the council’s 15 ambassadors, according to reports after the closed-door meeting.

“Only the international community can help, and first and foremost the Security Council.”

The 22-month-old conflict has left well over 60,000 dead, according to the United Nations, but the Security Council has remained paralysed.

The Assad government’s legitimacy has been “irreparably damaged,” Brahimi said, before adding that the regime and the rebel opposition were committing “equally atrocious crimes”.

Threat to regional security

Brahimi also warned of the conflict spilling over across Syria’s borders. “None of the neighbours is immune to the fallout consequences of the conflict.”

“Syria is being destroyed bit by bit,” Brahimi told reporters after the briefing to the UN diplomats.

“And in destroying Syria, the region is being pushed into a situation that is extremely bad and extremely important for the entire world,” he added.

I couldn’t post this video here, because it was so graphic, but here is a link to the video showing the bodies of the men dredged from the river, again it’s very, very , graphic.

via Envoy urges UN action over ‘horror’ in Syria – SYRIA – FRANCE 24.