Syrian opposition chairman formally resigns

It called on “the international community to immediately act to adopt a new
mechanism, through the Security Council, to force the Syrian regime to put
an end to its crimes because as it is this regime only reacts to force”.

The bloodshed comes despite a more than month-old ceasefire crafted by Mr
Annan as part of a plan aimed at ending violence that has swept Syria since
March 2011, when a popular revolt erupted against the regime of Bashar
al-Assad.

The plan includes the deployment in flashpoint areas of around 300 UN
observers.

Mr Ghalioun, has led by consensus rather than through election since the SNC’s
founding last October.

He said after announcing his plan to step down that he would remain an SNC
member “hand-in-hand with the young people who struggle, the young people of
the revolution of dignity and freedom, until victory”, while urging all
opposition groups to unite ranks.

Hours earlier, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), a network of activists
on the ground, threatened to pull out of the SNC over its lack of
collaboration with activists in Syria and “monopolisation” of power.

The LCC also criticised the SNC over the strong influence that Syria’s Muslim
Brotherhood wields over the coalition.

More than 12,600 people, the majority of them civilians, have died since the
Syrian uprising began, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights, including nearly 1,500 since the putative UN-backed truce took
effect April 12.

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