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Their agenda entails blaming Assad for killer gang violence and condemning his efforts to stop it. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich :
"As far as we know, this organization employs only two people (its head and secretary-translator)." The original's "headed by Rami Abdulrahman, who has no training either in journalism or law or even a complete secondary education.""The fact that representatives of the 'observatory' have been avoiding contact with our diplomats speaks for itself. We think that these facts allow one to judge how trustworthy the information provided by this structure is."
According to Reuters on Ma rch 23, "(d)ozens of civilians were killed in other parts of the northern province of Idlib, in Homs, Hama and Deraa in the south of the country. Five rebel gunmen and seven soldiers were killed in clashes in Homs province."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claims Damascus ignored calls to stop violence instead of pointing fingers the right way and denouncing Syrian National Council (SNC) head Burhan Ghalioun for dismissing the SC statement, saying:
It "has the merit of representing the common position of the international community against the policies of Bashar al-Assad. But it obviously does not meet the real needs of the Syrian people."
In other words, he'll ignore it and continue daily killings and other forms of violence. Assad will be blamed for confronting what he's obliged to do. Syrians expect it and, of course, need protection.
On Thursday, opposition forces, in fact, admitted killing at least 12 soldiers in attacks on checkpoints and convoys. They continue ravaging parts of the country daily.
Meanwhile, Syrian authorities reported seizing large caches of foreign-supplied weapons, ammunition, drugs, and explosives in Deir Ezzor, the nation's largest northeastern city. They found more in Hama.
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