Syria Urged To End Deadly Crackdown (Obama Leads Condemnation As Almost 90 Reported Killed)

[Turborama]

Source: Al Jazeera English

Obama leads condemnation as almost 90 reported killed in latest protests and accuses Damascus of seeking Iranian help.
Last Modified: April 23 2011 04:56

Barack Obama, the US president, has said Syria's deadly crackdown on protesters "must come to an end now" and accused Damascus of seeking Iranian help to repress its people.

Almost 90 protesters were killed on Friday, according to human rights group Amnesty International, in the bloodiest violence in a month of escalating protests against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's rule.

"This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now," said Obama on Friday, dismissing as "not serious" Assad's lifting of a decades-old emergency law in Syria this week and accused him of seeking help from Iran.

"Instead of listening to their own people, President Assad is blaming outsiders while seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria's citizens through the same brutal tactics that have been used by his Iranian allies," he said.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/04/2011422234932186305.html

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More on what President Obama said and a video report at the link.

[pettypace]

1. Asad needs to be taken out

Hopefully the US and NATO put some muscle in there.

[rpannier]

2. And replaced by whom exactly?

Assad leads a minority government.
Similar to Hussein.
We've seen how that has worked out

[pettypace]

3. A democrat

The Arabs need free and open elections. Why can't the UN administer such a thing. It's so simple and logical it makes me think the powers that be don't want it to happen.