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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Dozens of wounded are without treatment because all the hospitals have
fallen under the control of Shabiha. The dead are the lucky ones.”
Homs witnessed one of the bloodiest battles of the uprising earlier this year
when government forces drove rebels out of its Baba Amr district shortly
before the deployment in April of 300 unarmed UN observers under a ceasefire
plan brokered by Kofi Annan, the international envoy to Syria.
The presence of the monitors tempered the violence at first, but a series of
civilian massacres blamed on the Shabiha has led to a major escalation the
fighting which they have seemed powerless to stop.
After a growing number of incidents in which the monitors have themselves come
under fire, the United Nations announced it was suspending the observer
mission, dealing the most severe blow yet to international efforts to
prevent Syria from descending into civil war.
Maj Gen Robert Mood, the head of the mission, blamed both sides for the
suspension decision.
The decision will give renewed impetus to Western efforts to advance a new
initiative that calls for an immediate political transition in Syria based
on Mr Assad ceding power – a proposal strongly opposed by Russia.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said that the suspension of the observer
mission “call[ed] into serious question the viability of the UN mission.”
With 84 deaths reported across the country over the weekend, the opposition
Syrian National Council criticised the suspension of the observer mission
and demanded that the UN send a fully-fledged peacekeeping force in its
stead.
Although most civilians have fled opposition districts of Homs, more than
1,000 families remain there, making immediate intervention imperative to
save their lives, opposition groups said.
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