United Nations: The UN Security Council to discuss the recent Houla massacre in Syria in which nearly 92 people were brutally killed, most of them children.
The West thinks Syrian regime is behind the incident, but Damascus has denied any involvement in the tragic incident, with Russia supporting it.
“There is substantial ground to believe that the majority of those who were killed were either slashed, cut by knives, or executed at point-blank distance,” Russia’s deputy U.N. Ambassador Alexander Pankin told reporters before the session.
At least 116 people, mostly children, were killed in the Houla attack, the head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria General Robert Mood told the 15-nation council, Reuters quoted a diplomat who was in the closed-door meeting as saying. However, he declined to be named, the agency said.
“The tragic events in Syria and the deaths of dozens of people deserve condemnation. However it is necessary to seriously examine the causes of what happened,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Twitter.
On the other hand, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said, “It seems quite clear that the massacre in Houla was caused by heavy bombardment, by government artillery and tanks.”
Earlier, the activists accused the Syrian regime yesterday of the mass killing. UN observers went to the town and counted the bodies today. Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria, said the killing was “indiscriminate and unforgivable”, BBC reported.
“This indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force is unacceptable and unforgivable. The killing of innocent children and civilians needs to stop,” he said yesterday.
Syria’s government has put blame on the “armed terrorist gangs”. Since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began last year, this was the bloodiest attack ever. The UN says at least 10,000 have been killed since the protests began.
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