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February 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The West immediately dismissed the vote as “a sham”.
Even as some cast ballots for what the government has tried to portray as
reform, the military kept up shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs,
which has been under attack for more than three weeks after rebels took
control of some neighborhoods there. Activists and residents report that
hundreds have been killed in Homs in the past few weeks, including two
Western journalists.
The Red Cross spokesman said the humanitarian group had been unable to enter
the besieged Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr since Friday, describing the
humanitarian needs there as “very urgent.”
Activist groups said at least 29 people were killed on Sunday, mostly in Homs.
At least 89 were reported killed on Saturday alone, one day before the
referendum. Activists estimate close to 7,500 people have been killed in the
11 months since the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent began.
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State called Sunday’s vote “a
cynical ploy.”
“It’s a phony referendum, and it is going to be used by Assad to justify
what he’s doing to other Syrian citizens,” she said in an interview
with CBS News in Rabat, Morocco.
Speaking to reporters in Rabat, Mrs Clinton called on Syrians in business and
the military who still support Assad to turn against him.
“The longer you support the regime’s campaign of violence against your
brothers and sisters, the more it will stain your honor,” she said. “If
you refuse, however, to prop up the regime or take part in attacks … your
countrymen and women will hail you as heroes.”
More than 7,600 people have been killed in violence sweeping Syria since
anti-regime erupted in March 2011, according to rights monitors.
Syrians were voting on Sunday on a new charter in the face of opposition calls
for a boycott and deadly violence that Washington has said made the exercise “laughable.”
The new text ends the legal basis for the five-decade stranglehold on power of
the ruling Baath party but leaves huge powers in the hands of the president.
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