"The massacre continues, the silence of the Security Council too. This situation is becoming intolerable," he said at a presser during a visit to Myanmar.
In October, Russia and China vetoed a Western draft resolution that would have condemned Bashir al-Assad's regime. Russia later circulated an alternative that would have pointed the finger at both sides.
U.N. chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
on Sunday issued a call to Assad to stop killing his people.
"Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people. The path of repression is a dead end," Ban said in a keynote address at a conference on Arab world democracy in Beirut.
The United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria as Assad's forces crack down on anti-regime protests now in their 10th month.
The government says far fewer have been killed while accusing "armed terrorist gangs" backed by foreign powers of being responsible for the violence.
"The repression has not ceased. The violence is still at work. The Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
has given itself until January 19 to assess the situation. I strongly hope that it will make a report that is as objective as possible that it can communicate to the Security Council," Juppe said.