Syria to Join U.N.'s Human Rights Council As They Slaughter Their Own Citizens in the Streets

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The horror and depravity of the OIC-driven UN is surpassed only by its brazen flaunting and advance of bloody savages and monsters.

As Syria uses using tanks and live ammunition against its own people………..

Despite Reports of Brutality Toward Civilians, Syria to Join U.N.'s Human Rights Council FOX News

The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders — but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won’t do much about blocking Syria’s path to the human rights group.

"That's not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state,"  said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the secretary-general, when asked if the U.N. chief would ask Syria to drop out of the running for the post. When asked if Ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation April 9 with Assad, Nesirsky told Fox News, "that's not really something the secretary general would raise specifically, because it's for other member states to decide on the membership of the Human Rights Council."

Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian human rights activist based in Washington, called on the secretary-general "to have a greater sense of decency and courage, and to realize that his position gives him a certain moral authority and puts him exactly in the position to tell the Assads that their candidacy at this stage is unwelcome." Abdulhamid was forced to flee Syria in 2005 following criticism of the Assad regime, and still finds himself under attack by the regime. His website was recently hacked and now posts the latest videos and news on his blog (http://syrianrevolutiondigest.blogspot.com).

A State Department spokesman last week said the U.S. would oppose Syria's bid to the Human Rights Council, calling it "inappropriate and hypocritical." But it would seem Syria is virtually guaranteed a seat, having been selected as one of four candidates for the Asian bloc.

While no Asian state is known to be looking to challenge Syria, Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, told Fox News that, "clearly it's an issue being discussed among the States and obviously depends on whether other countries in the Asian group put themselves up as a candidate." Asked if the U.N.’s Human Rights supremo, who has condemned the violence in Syria, would get involved, he echoed the words of Ban Ki-moon's spokesman, telling Fox News: "It's a matter for the States."

Anne Bayefsky, a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute and an expert on Human Rights issues at the U.N., tells Fox News that "Syria knows a good deal when it sees it and the like-minded countries in the Asian regional group that nominated Syria are just as enthusiastic about the U.N.'s idea of a "human rights" body. So the question for the Obama administration is not how do we keep Syria out, but why is the United States in?" She believes that the administration is working hard to keep Syria from gaining a seat "but for all the wrong reasons — namely, to save the spectacle of an American foreign policy outsourced to the U.N."

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