[net-gold] COUNTRIES: SYRIA: Wither Assad? How the Syrian Leaders Days May Be Numbered
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- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: SYRIA:
Wither Assad? How the Syrian Leaders Days May Be Numbered
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Wither Assad? How the Syrian Leaders Days May Be Numbered
Cecily Hilleary | Washington
August 04, 2011
Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Wither-
Assad-How-the-Syrian-Leaders-Days-May-Be-Numbered-126787713.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/444392r
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Throughout the Arab Spring, the international community has been forced
more than once to grapple with perhaps the most challenging policy dilemma
of all: At what point should outsiders intervene in a countrys internal
conflict and, more specifically, what does it take to bring down a
determined dictator?
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Tunisias Zin al Abbeddine Ben Ali folded his cards early in the game.
Egypts Hosni Mubarak was more stubborn but was gone in a matter of weeks.
Libyas Muammar Gadhafi has not been so cooperative with his critics.The
resulting NATO-led military intervention has not only failed in its
mission to pry Libya out of Gadhafis clutches, but, say analysts, exposed
Western shortsightedness and shortcomings.
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Now the international community is up against another tenacious
leaderSyrias Bashar al-Assad. As his bloody crackdown on protesters
continues into Ramadan, Syrians are becoming more vocal in their pleas for
Western support. Nearly every player in the West agrees that something
must be done. But what?
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Pressure from without
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Hours of debate between members of the U.N. Security Council this week
failed to reach agreement on a resolution first proposed in May. Instead,
the Council adopted a Presidential Statement condemning widespread
violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the
Syrian authorities. The statement also calls for responsible parties to be
held accountable, but it stops short of imposing sanctions or making any
other demands - such as referring Assad to the International Criminal
Court for crimes against humanity a move some member states had been
pushing for.
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Mohamed Alabdullah, the U.S. spokesman for the Local Coordination
Committees (LCC), a coalition of grassroots activists in Syria, says he is
disappointed the Security Council could not come up with a tough
resolution. The statement is good, he told VOA, but its considered as a
lame action, and the government in Syria, they interpret such a lame
statement as a green light to continue killing people - Now we can kill as
much as we want.
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Alabdullah had harsh words for Russia, the most vocal opponent to a
resolution: Russia is helping in the killing of Syrians.
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It is chiefly the Russians who have blocked European efforts to impose
stricter sanctions, says Mona Yacoubian, Special Adviser at the Center for
Conflict Analysis and Prevention and Director of the Lebanon Working Group
at the Washington, D.C.-based U.S Institute of Peace (USIP). However, as
the level of violence increased this week, she believes that Russia may
gradually relent.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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