Damascus: Free Syrian Army (FSA), a country’s rebel group, has abandoned the peace plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and started attacks on soldiers.
Major Sami al-Kurdi, a Free Syrian Army spokesman, said the rebels were no longer bound by the truce after their Friday deadline passed. The rebels had earlier threatened to abandon the ceasefire unless the army stops its operations against armed groups by Friday.
At least 80 Syrian soldiers were killed by rebels over the weekend, an activist group said. FSA had earlier urged Annan to issue a statement declaring his peace plan to have failed.
The announcement of rebels’ abandoning the ceasefire and resuming their attacks comes as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Free Syrian Army has killed over 100 soldiers across the country over the weekend, Press TV reported.
Syrian government has repeatedly accused the armed groups fighting against the regime of violating the ceasefire since it was declared on 12 April as part of Annan’s six-point peace plan to end months of unrest in Syria.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including hundreds of security forces, have been killed in the country over the past 15 months—Houla massacre being the worst of all.
While the West and the Syrian opposition say the government is responsible for the killings, Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad to pave the way for foreign intervention.
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