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May 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The security council condemned in the strongest possible terms the
killings, confirmed by United Nations observers, of dozens of men, women and
children and the wounding of hundreds more in the village of (Houla), near
Homs, in attacks that involved a series of government artillery and tank
shellings on a residential neighbourhood,” the statement said.
“Such outrageous use of force against civilian population constitutes a
violation of applicable international law and of the commitments of the
Syrian Government under United Nations Security Council Resolutions.”
The wording was carefully designed after objections from Russia to anything
which accused Syria directly of responsibility for the deaths of so many
women and children. The Assad regime said that “armed groups and
terrrorists” carried out the killings, though activists and residents
of the town said they were attacked by Alawite gangs from two neighbouring
villages.
Alexander Pankin, the Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, said the
circumstances were “murky” and said there was no clear evidence to
show that Damascus was guilty.
The security council was briefed directly by Maj Gen Robert Mood, the head of
the UN monitoring mission, who visited Houla on Saturday and Sunday and
counted the bodies. He updated from 92 to 108 the number of dead in the
attacks, including 49 children and 34 women.
They began with army shelling and then continued with raids on houses in
Taldaw, one of the settlements that makes up Houla, and the apparently
cold-blooded killing of residents with knives and gunfire. Videos posted
online showed rows of children’s bodies, some horribly disfigured, and
weeping mothers.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said observers found clear evidence of
the use of artillery and tank shells, which only regime forces possess.
He said that “other forms of violence, including shootings at close range
and severe physical abuse” were used, though the detailed circumstances
were unknown.
Western nations were more direct. “It seems quite clear that the massacre
in Houla was caused by heavy bombardment, by government artillery and tanks,”
the British ambassador, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, said. “The fact is, it is
an atrocity and it was perpetrated by the Syrian government.”
France’s deputy ambassador, Martin Briens, said: “With this new crime,
the assassin regime of Bashar al-Assad is taking Syria deeper into horror.”
Sir Mark said it was time to discuss the “next steps” though it
remains unclear what options other than further sanctions by individual
governments the international community has, given the opposition of Russia
and China to any form of concerted action.
The rebels themselves are now calling for the West to act independently, and
called for a “battle of liberation” against the Assad regime.
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