Syria’s main opposition group said on Saturday that it was pulling out of international talks and demanded world action to stop the slaughter of Syrians, after missiles slammed into the city of Aleppo, killing dozens.

The Syrian National Coalition’s decided to boycott talks with world power after announcing plans to form a government to run “liberated areas” of Syria, AFP reported.

Coalition chief Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib said the group’s withdrawal from meetings abroad was “a message of protest to all governments of the world, Arab and non-Arab, that can see how the Syrian people are being killed, while they merely look on.”

He was speaking as the conflict, which has cost the lives of more than 70,000 people according to the UN, is set to enter its third year, with no end in sight.

Condemning the “international silence” on the bloodshed in Syria, which it charged “amounts to participating in two years of killings,” the opposition said Friday that it would not attend meetings in Italy, Russia and the United States, according to AFP.

It singled out Damascus ally Russia for blame, saying its leaders were “ethically and politically responsible because they continue to support the (Syrian) regime with weapons.”

The group had been due to attend a Friends of Syria meeting in Rome on Thursday, while Khatib had also been invited to Moscow, and to the United States.

“We cannot visit any country until there is a clear decision on this savage, aggressive regime,” Khatib said of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to AFP.

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