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April 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Moscow backed the resolution after successfully insisting on including one
Russian officer in the observers group.
Sergei Ryabkov, deputy foreign minister, said Russia would be “substantially”
represented in the mission.
“The specifics of our participation in the observers mission are being
worked on right now,” Interfax quoted Mr Ryabkov as saying.
“Without a well-functioning observers mission working in the field, it is
impossible to obtain a reliable and objective picture of what is happening.”
Russia has been the focus of some Syrian protesters’ outrage for previously
refusing to condemn President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for violence that the
London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday had killed
11,117 people.
Moscow has in recent weeks been more critical of Assad in public and condemned
him for failing to pursue some of Russia’s recommendations for ending the
violence.
Russia on Monday also hosted members of the National Coordinating Committee
for Democratic Change – a splinter opposition group that was not invited to
the latest Friends of Syria meeting in Istanbul.
Its Chairman Hassan Abdel Azim said on Tuesday that Assad had lost his
authority and that talks with his regime were possible only under strict
observance from foreign groups such as the Arab League and the European
Union.
“The Syrian dialogue needs powerful and influential sponsors,” Mr
Azim said.
He called Annan’s peace plan Syria’s “last chance to put out the flames
of fratricidal carnage.”
Mr Azim’s group is a Syrian-based alliance comprised of socialists as well as
Arab nationalist parties and Kurds.
While the overall level of violence is down since the ceasefire formally took
effect Thursday, the regime has stepped up attacks. The number of people
killed every day has also risen steadily since a brief lull that coincided
with the start of the truce. At least 26 people were reported killed on
Monday.
In violence on Tuesday, army tanks shelled the southern town of Busra
al-Harir, killing at least two people, said the Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group. The town, about 45 miles
south of the capital of Damascus, is a stronghold of the rebel Free Syrian
Army.
Regime forces also shelled the Khaldiyeh neighbourhood in the central city of
Homs, a centre of the rebellion against Assad, according to the Observatory.
Homs has been under continuous regime attack, with only a short break on the
first day of the ceasefire, activists said.
The regime appeared to be pushing to take control of the last rebel-held
districts in Homs, said activists in the city. Khaldiyeh was shelled from
three sides on Monday, and half of the nearby district of Bayada fell under
the army’s control over the weekend. Activists said Monday that the Free
Syrian Army was holding its ground in the Qarabees and Jouret al-Shayah
neighbourhoods.
On Monday, at least five people were killed in Homs shelling, the Observatory
said. Across Syria, at least 26 people were killed Monday, including 10 in a
daylong gun battle between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in the
northwestern town of Idlib, the group said.
Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, said at least 55
people were killed Monday, including 26 in Idlib.
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