Syria compared to London riots

“I am not repeating what he said I am saying we care about the human
rights of our people but we cannot do everything alone. There are third
parties in the domestic crisis in Syria.” Mr Jaafari appeared to be
referencing a statement made by Mr Cameron in which he said he would “not
let any phoney concerns about human rights get in the way” when it came
to publishing pictures and prosecuting wanted rioters.

Mr Jaafari’s comments brought a withering response from Sir Mark Lyall Grant,
the UK ambassador to the UN, who said: “Coming from a representative of
a regime that is now responsible for the deaths of well over 15,000
citizens, the Syrian Ambassador’s comparison of his regime’s response with
what happened in England last summer was utterly grotesque.

“It just goes to show how untenable the position of the Syrian regime has
now become, and how desperate are the few remaining people willing to defend
it.” Mr Jaafari is not the first Syrian figure to compare what is
happening in Syria to the riots in Britain.

Earlier this year President Bashar Assad’s father in law, Fawaz Akhras said: “When
the London riots burst out and Mr Cameron said he would get the army out,
now would you compare that to Homs?

“What would you do? Just watch them killing you? You have a
responsibility to ensure the security of your people.” When it was
pointed out that the British authorities had killed no one during the riots,
Dr Akhras told The Telegraph: “We are not as sophisticated as the
Metropolitan Police or Scotland Yard.”

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