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Syrian regime accused of ‘new massacre’
Syria’s government faced fresh western censure on Monday in the wake of opposition claims of hundreds of people being killed in a new massacre during recent fighting in the Damascus countryside.
William Hague, foreign secretary, called reports of the killings a reminder of the “callous brutality” of the Assad regime and “the terrible climate of impunity” in Syria. He said there was an urgent need to end the 25-month conflict, which has claimed more than 70,000 lives, displaced 2 million Syrians and destabilised the wider region.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, a network of anti-regime activists, said government forces had killed 350 “martyrs” in Artouz, south-west of the capital, on Sunday. Three days earlier 100 people had been killed. The figures could not be independently verified as the area is inaccessible to the handful of foreign journalists and NGOs in Damascus.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some victims were summarily killed. Videos posted online showed rows of corpses wrapped in bloody blankets. SOHR said there were reports of as many as 250 dead.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr…w-massacre
2013-04-22 19:45:08
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