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Rights Groups Urge U.N. to Refer Syria Crackdown to ICC
2011-12-02
[An Nahar] Amnesia Amnesty International and rights activists on Wednesday called on the U.N. Security Council to refer the Syrian government's deadly crackdown on protests to the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
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A Syrian activist forced into exile by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's government said there has to be "regime change" in the country, but with no foreign intervention.

Amnesia Amnesty International is pressing for an arms embargo, an asset freezes against Assad and his associates as well as an investigation by the ICC, said a Middle East campaigner for the rights group, Maha Abu Shama.

"It is high time for the U.N. Security council to take action," Shama told news hounds at a briefing also attended by Catherine al-Talli, who was briefly jugged by Syrian authorities in May and has since gone into exile.

The lawyer activist backed the calls for sanctions but said "we want the regime to be changed but with no foreign interference."

The mounting agitation for international action against Syria comes as western nations renew calls for condemnation of the Assad government for the crackdown, which the U.N. says has left more than 3,500 dead.

The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session in Geneva on Friday on the Syria following a request by the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. U.N. human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
Sherlocks said in a report released this week that crimes against humanity have been committed in Syria.

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...
foreign ministers are to meet this weekend in Doha and could decide to refer the Syria case to the Security Council. Russia and China vetoed a resolution against Syria last month.

The European powers which proposed the resolution say they are waiting to see how the vaporous Arab League advances with its sanctions clampdown on Syria before deciding on whether to ask again for U.N. action against Syria.

Russia will be the president of the Security Council for December.

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