WORLD_ Syria: 41 killed as Ban Ki-moon calls on halt to civilian deaths

Syria: 41 killed as Ban Ki-moon calls on halt to civilian deaths

The unrest in Syria edged closer to an all-out armed conflict on Monday as 41 people were killed, including 11 soldiers reportedly in clashes with army defectors.


Mr Assad's British-born wife Asma was accused on Monday of appearing unmoved during a Damascus meeting with aid workers to discuss the security situation Photo: AFP/GETTY

12:59AM BST 18 Oct 2011
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 27 people, most of them civilians but some of them police, were killed in the flashpoint city of Homs.

Three other civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, were also shot dead in other parts of the country. More than 3,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the crackdown on anti-regime protests.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, meanwhile urged President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop the killings of civilians.

Mr Ban also called on Assad to accept an international commission of inquiry into rights violations ordered by the UN Human Rights Council in April. Damascus has blocked investigators from entering the country.

Mr Assad's British-born wife Asma, was meanwhile accused on Monday of appearing unmoved during a Damascus meeting with aid workers to discuss the security situation.


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Speaking to The Independent, one volunteer said: "We told her about the security forces attacking demonstrators. About them taking wounded people from cars and preventing people from getting to hospital... There was no reaction. She didn't react at all."

Mrs Assad has reportedly set up the meeting as she wanted to hear about the difficulties the aid agencies had been facing during the conflict.


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