Syria's Assad
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Syria's Assad denies blame for crackdown
From correspondents in Washington
From: AFP
December 08, 2011 6:02AM
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad denied ordering the killing of thousands of protesters and said "only a crazy person" would target his own people as global pressure mounted overnight on his regime.
In a rare interview, Mr Assad said that he was not responsible for the nine months of bloodshed and drew a distinction between himself and the military - an assertion that the United States called "ludicrous".
"We don't kill our people," he told US network ABC. "No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person."
"There was no command to kill or be brutal," Mr Assad told veteran ABC News interviewer Barbara Walters.
He said that security forces belonged to "the government" and not him personally.
"I don't own them. I'm president. I don't own the country. So they are not my forces," Mr Assad said.
His family has ruled Syria with an iron fist for four decades. Mr Assad's brother, Lieutenant Colonel Maher al-Assad, heads the army's Fourth Division, which oversees the capital as well as the elite Republican Guard.
The United Nations estimates that more than 4000 people have died as Syria cracks down on protesters, who have built into the greatest challenge yet to Mr Assad amid a wave of uprisings in the Arab world that have toppled authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
He dismissed the death toll, saying: "Who said that the United Nations is a credible institution?"
"Most of the people that have been killed are supporters of the government, not the vice versa," Mr Assad said in English, giving a figure of 1100 dead soldiers and police.
US State Department spokesman Mark Toner, reacting yesterday to excerpts of the interview, sharply criticised Mr Assad for denying responsibility.
"I find it ludicrous that he is attempting to hide behind some sort of shell game but also some sort of claim that he doesn't exercise authority in his own country," Mr Toner said.
"There's just no indication that he's doing anything other than cracking down in the most brutal fashion on a peaceful opposition movement," he said.
Syria has come under growing international pressure, with Arab nations and neighbouring Turkey joining Western powers in pursuing sanctions against Assad.
Alistair Burt, the British Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, hailed the efforts by the Arab League and voiced hope for greater action by Russia, the key ally of the Assads since the Soviet era.
"The isolation of Syria will continue and intensify," Mr Burt said as he visited Libya in the wake of the overthrow and killing of leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Syria's official news agency SANA said its border forces on Tuesday thwarted an attempt by 35 gunmen from "armed terrorist groups" to infiltrate from Turkey.
Turkey is home to around 7500 refugees who have fled Mr Assad's crackdown. Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad, who heads a group of defectors called the Free Syrian Army, is based in a border camp and, unlike some other dissidents, has called for foreign air strikes.
A Turkish diplomat, speaking overnight on condition of anonymity, said his country would not allow itself to be the springboard for attacks and denied that there was military activity on the Syrian side of the border.
The Arab League has suspended Syria and has threatened new sanctions if Assad does not allow in observers. Syria initially refused but at the last minute offered to let in monitors in return for an end to sanctions.
In the ABC News interview, Mr Assad brushed aside the international pressure, saying: "We've been under sanctions for the last 30, 35 years. It's not something new."
Witnesses and human rights groups say Syrian forces have used intense force, mass arrests and torture to try to crush the biggest threat yet to the Assad family's rule.
The conflict is said to have taken a heavy toll on children who either took part in protests or were targeted because of their parents' involvement. A UN-appointed investigator said that Syria killed 56 children in November alone.
In one high-profile case, Mr Assad denied charges that Syrian forces tortured to death 13-year-old boy Hamza al-Khatib, who rights groups say was shot, burned and castrated in April.
"Every 'brute reaction' was by an individual, not by an institution, that's what you have to know," Mr Assad said.
"There is a difference between having a policy to crack down and between having some mistakes committed by some officials. There is a big difference."
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/syrias-assad-denies-blame-for-crackdown/story-e6frfku0-1226216808772#ixzz1fsvJ0LHQ
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Các anh chị nghĩ thế nào, có ý kiến phê bình gì qua bản tin "Syria's Assad denies blame for crackdown" From correspondents in Washington - From: AFP - December 08, 2011 6:02AM cũng như những bản tin, bài viết với nhan đề tương tự ?
Syria's Assad
Không có gì đáng ngạc nhiên khi trong vài ngày qua trên Internet có nhiều bài viết với nội dung độc tài Assad "denies blame for crackdown", chạy TỘI ÁC đã gây ra cho hơn 4000 sinh mạng dân Syria .
Có tên độc tài nào còn quyền lực trong tay, còn phương tiện GIẾT NGƯỜI mà thừa nhận TỘI ÁC của nó ?
Những bộ mặt SÁT NHÂN tàn bạo dã thú sẽ trở thành hèn hạ bẩn thỉu và chỉ phô bày đầy đủ, rõ ràng không thể chối cãi với tất cả SỰ THẬT khi người dân Syria chiến thắng, khi Cách Mạng LẬT ĐỔ cầm quyền độc tài Assad THÀNH CÔNG.
Xin mời các anh chị đọc thêm bài viết dưới đây:
'Coward' Assad must quit - Turkey
Turkey talks tough: Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (above) has ratcheted up the pressure on Syria's increasingly isolated Bashir al-Assad. Picture: AP Source: AP
SYRIA'S Bashar al-Assad has been branded a coward by his onetime friend and ally, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr Erdogan urged Mr Assad to quit or face a bloody death like Adolf Hitler and other dictators.
The opposition Syrian National Council said, meanwhile, that it is already pressing ahead with plans for a conference together with the Arab League to prepare for a "transitional period" after the fall of Mr Assad's regime.
Mr Assad is under mounting pressure from Syria's neighbours to step down over his regime's eight-month crackdown on protests that the United Nations says has killed more than 3500 people.
Security forces killed 12 people yesterday, including four boys in the flashpoint central province of Homs, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The boys - aged 10, 11, 13 and 15 - were "indiscriminately" gunned down in the Hula area, it said in a statement.
Three other people, including a mentally ill man, were killed in Homs, while two more, including a deserter, were killed elsewhere in the province, and three brothers were killed in Idlib in the northwest, it said.
In his fiercest criticism yet of his former personal friend, Mr Erdogan called on Mr Assad to "quit power before more blood is shed... for the peace of your people, your region and your country".
After weeks of mounting criticism of Mr Assad, it was the first time the Turkish premier had directly called for his removal, becoming the second leader of a neighbouring country to do so after Jordan's King Abdullah II.
"Bashar al-Assad is saying he will fight to the death. Fighting your own people... is not heroism but cowardice," Mr Erdogan told parliament, referring to a recent interview with Mr Assad published by the Sunday Times in London.
"If you want to see someone who fought and died, take a look at Nazi Germany, take a look at Hitler, take a look at Mussolini and Romania's Ceausescu," he said.
Adolf Hitler died in his bunker as Allied forces closed in on Berlin, wartime Italian leader Benito Mussolini was strung up from a lamp post by an angry mob, and Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1989.
If Mr Assad had failed to learn lessons from history, Mr Erdogan invited him to consider the more recent fate of Libya's long-time strongman Muammar Gaddafi who was killed by his opponents after being chased from power.
Mr Erdogan also asked Mr Assad why he failed to display the same fighting spirit to win back the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle East war and unilaterally annexed in 1981.
"You are talking about fighting to the death. Why didn't you fight to the death for the Golan Heights occupied by Israel?" Mr Erdogan asked.
He insisted Turkey had no intention of interfering in Syria's domestic affairs but added "we cannot remain indifferent" to what happens in a neighbouring country with which Turkey shares a 910-kilometre border.
Turkey has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of Mr Assad after its diplomatic missions came under attack by pro-government demonstrators in several Syrian cities earlier this month.
Tensions deteriorated further on Monday when two busloads of Turkish pilgrims who were in Syria on their way back from the hajj in Mecca were attacked by gunmen.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/coward-assad-must-quit-turkey/story-fn6sb9br-1226203122498#ixzz1fsumb1JK
Còn nữa, bè lũ phản quốc CƯỚP NƯỚC DIỆT CHỦNG BÁN NƯỚC đảng Việt gian cộng sản VN đã GIẾT, đã TÀN SÁT hàng triệu dân VN đến ngày hôm nay thế giới tự do vẫn "bắt tay" lũ súc sinh GIẾT DÂN BÁN NƯỚC đê tiện bẩn thỉu này, trong số đó có cả Đức Giáo Hoàng đương kim thì có gì lạ , tất cả cũng chỉ vì quyền lợi, không gì khác.
Cũng như Tunisia, Ai Cập, Libya, bây giờ là Syria đã và đang tiếp tục Xuống Đường, khi người dân BỊ TRỊ VN đủ sức ĐỨNG LÊN với Ý CHÍ và QUYẾT TÂM chống lại bè lũ sâu dân mọt nước, bè lũ bán nước giết dân, bè lũ chó đẻ rước ngọai bang về thờ, lăng nhục Tổ Tiên nòi giống là cái đảng vô lọai cộng sản VN, lôi cổ lũ chó đẻ này xuống để GIÀNH lại QUYỀN LÀM NGƯỜI, QUYỀN LÀM CHỦ ĐẤT NƯỚC, lúc đó lũ thú vật csVN sẽ trở thành TỘI ĐỒ TRUYỀN KIẾP của dân tộc Việt.
Chân thành cám ơn Quý Anh Chị ghé thăm "conbenho Nguyễn Hoài Trang Blog"
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