The senators, who are regarded as foreign policy “hawks” in Washington,
expressed their “repugnance and anger and disgust at the behaviour of Bashar
al-Assad and the recent massacre of innocent women and children”.
A massacre last week in which 108 people, mainly women and children, were
killed in the central region of Houla, has caused international outrage but
so far few signals that more aid will be sent to the rebels.
Many Western governments ordered out senior Syrian diplomats in an apparently
coordinated protest at the Houla killings, but Russia criticised the
ejections as “counter-productive”.
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus this week with no apparent
concessions from the Syrian leader.
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