The opposition Syrian National Council called on the United Nations to back an Arab League peace plan as President Bashar al-Assad's forces continued to shell rebel cities.
Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun Photo: REUTERS
By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
4:59PM GMT 25 Dec 2011
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Burhad Ghalioun, head of the SNC, used a television broadcast to call on the outside world to help stop what he called a "barbaric massacre".
"I call upon the Arab League to ask the Security Council to adopt its plan in order to increase possibilities of its success and avoid giving the regime an opportunity not to carry out its obligations," he said. "The barbaric massacre must stop now."
An Arab League monitoring mission is due to arrive in Damascus on Monday to oversee implementation of a peace plan agreed at the end of October.
Under the plan, the Syrian army is supposed to withdraw from city streets, political prisoners are to be freed, and talks with the opposition are to be held.
It is supposed to be overseen by hundreds of monitors from the League, but their arrival was delayed by weeks of wrangling with the Syrian authorities over their remit and access, during which time thousands more people, including both protesters and soldiers, were killed.
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The opposition claim that the whole League plan has become just a means for Mr Assad to buy time to put down the uprising.
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which is part of the SNC, on Saturday denied it had claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing which killed more than 40 people on Friday. A claim had been posted on a website claiming to be that of the Brotherhood, but the opposition say both the claim and the bombings were the work of the government itself.
More than 6,000 people have died in the uprising, according to human rights activists, with no sign of either the protesters or the authorities stepping down. Despite the presence in Damascus of an Arab League advance team preparing for the monitoring mission, both the principal rebel holdout of Homs and the restive district of Deir al-Zour on the Iraqi border were shelled on Sunday.
Ghazi Zoaib, a former member of President Assad's ruling Baath party who activists said had come out in support of the opposition, and his wife, were also killed late on Saturday.
The United Nations has failed to take action over Syria as it did over Libya, with Russia and China holding out against sanctions. The Pope, in his Christmas message, said he was now praying for God's help.
"May he bring an end to the violence in Syria, where so much blood has already been shed," he said.
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