Friday, April 06, 2012

SYRIA - As the 'Cease-Fire' Nears

"In Syria, Shells Rain Down Days Before Cease-Fire Deadline" PBS Newshour 4/5/2012

Excerpt

JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Amid much diplomatic talk, the killing continues. The current and former secretaries-general of the U.N. seemed to be offering different assessments of what's going on. And while the world's major powers keep discussing the issue at the U.N. Security Council, they are not budging from their differing views on what to do next.

Shells rained down on cities across Syria today, days before a cease-fire deadline. Activists said a government assault on Duma, a suburb of Damascus, was one of the fiercest yet, all of this as United Nations peace envoy Kofi Annan said he expects the shooting to stop by April 12.

He addressed the U.N. General Assembly via video link from Geneva.

KOFI ANNAN, former U.N. Secretary-General: We must silence the tanks, helicopters, mortars, guns and stop all other forms of violence too, sexual abuse, torture, executions, abductions, destruction of homes, forced displacement, and other abuses, including on children.

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