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May 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Annan went further, saying that there might have been an increase in
government repression. Diplomats who attended the briefing reported him as
being particularly concerned that torture, mass arrests and other human
rights violations were “intensifying”.
“Troops continue to press against the population, yet more discreetly,”
one diplomat said in summary of the report, which was not released publicly. “He
cited limited progress on the military front. The onus remains with the
government to prevent further militarisation of the conflict.”
He added that the plan was not an “open-ended commitment but a possible
last chance to avoid civil war”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the death toll on both
sides, gave new figures for the number of deaths yesterday. It said almost
12,000 people had died in total, of whom 8,515 were civilians, 2,690 were
soldiers and 720 were soldiers who had defected to the rebels.
More than 800 of those had died since the ceasefire began – 589 civilians, 213
soldiers and 29 defectors.
Nothing Mr Annan or the ICRC said yesterday is likely to affect the immediate
course of the conflict. There is no sign that either Russia or China are
ready for tougher action against Mr Assad, nor that the rebels or their
spokesmen abroad in the Syrian National Council are willing to accept Mr
Assad continuing in power.
Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the UN, insisted despite Mr Annan’s
comments that the situation was “moving on in a positive direction”.
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