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Members of the Syrian Free Army speaks to a person believed to be a member of the United Nations observers mission near the bodies of people allegedly killed by government security forces in Huola in May. A panel appointed by the U.N.'s 47-nation Human Rights Council blamed the government and allied militia for the killing of the more than 100 civilians.
GENEVA - Syrian government forces and allied shabbiha militia have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and torture, United Nations human rights investigators said on Wednesday.
Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have also committed war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, but the violations "did not reach the gravity, frequency and scale" of those carried out by the army and security forces, investigators concluded.
U.S. officials say that dozens of people, including children, were killed by Syrian government forces in the central town of Houla. NBC's Richard Engel reports. Warning: Some of the images are disturbing.
"The commission found reasonable grounds to believe that government forces and the shabbiha had committed the crimes against humanity of murder and of torture, war crimes and gross violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including unlawful killing, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violence, indiscriminate attack, pillaging and destruction of property," said the 102-page report by the independent investigators led by Paulo Pinheiro.
Syrian state TV: Bomb rattles UN monitors' hotel
The shabiha are largely Alawite, the Shiite group that Assad and most of his inner circle hail from, and are accused of carrying out killings of Sunnis and opposition activists.
Alex Thomson, reporting for NBC News has the first report from inside the Syrian town of Houla where more than a hundred people were massacred, nearly half of them children. Villagers, eager to tell their stories, said they were attacked by pro-government Shiite and Alawite militia. The Syrian government claims the massacre was the work of terrorists.
The U.N. panel appointed by the U.N.'s 47-nation Human Rights Council blamed the government and allied militia for the killing of more than 100 civilians in the village of Houla in May, nearly half of them children, and said the murders, unlawful killing, torture, sexual violence and indiscriminate attacks "indicate the involvement at the highest levels of the armed and security forcesand the government."
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The report covers the period between Feb. 15 and July 20 andinvolved 1,062 interviews, both in the field and in Geneva. But the panel members emphasized their lack of ability to carry out theirU.N. mandate within Syria hampered their investigation.
Activists say more than 20,000 people have been killed since thestart of Syria's revolt, inspired by other Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic regimes in the region.
Houla Media Center via EPA
A picture published by Houla Media Center on May 26 shows the bodies of those allegedly killed in a massacre in the village of Houla, in Homs province.
The conflict has slowly changed into a full blown civil war that the panel says involves "more brutal tactics and new military capabilities on both sides."
Karen AbuZayd, an American expert serving as senior investigator alongside Pinheiro, told Reuters: "We have identified both parties as guilty of war crimes and of course a greater number and of bigger variety from the government side.
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"What happened on the government side appears to be a policy of the state. It is not just widespread but similar large-scale complex operations, how they are carried out, the way the military and security work together," she said.
The investigators said they would update their confidential list of suspects or units responsible for violations and hand it over to U.N. rights boss Navi Pillay next month.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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"Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have also committed war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, but the violations "did not reach the gravity, frequency and scale" of those carried out by the army and security forces, investigators concluded."
OK. I understand how it works now. The rebels have to reach a certain limit before they are as guilty as Assad's forces. Innocent victims are more than numbers in my book.
Politics as usual.
Assad started the killings against unarmed protesters aiming to win their freedom from what can be correctly called "Assad the Butcher. Thousands of syria's citizens had been killed before the civil war broke out, where former Assad's forces disgusted with the slaughter of their own people sided with the freedom fighters
Sichuan, who cares which side committed war crimes or both? The main question to ask the UN is who (or which country(ies)) is going to get theses war criminals? The US needs to stand back and let the other UN members start pulling their own weight.
So let's get this straight. The UN bozo's have concluded that both sides likely committed war crimes. They should acknowledge that what's going on in Syria is a civil war and keep the hell out of it. Who appointed this politically driven and ineffectual and corrupt outfit as the policemen of the world?
The only reason US supports the rebels is because US and Israel would rather have a weak and unstable, Lebanon like Syria, than stable Syria aligned with Iran. So that is why we support a movement full of common criminals and terrorists...
The west needs to stay the hell out of this. These rebels are nothing more than Islamists who want control for themselves. They do not want a free and open democratic society in Syria, they want one run under their perverted view of Islam where anyone who does not comply is persecuted and either "disappeared," or just killed outright. These rebels are not freedom fighters and this conflict is not about freedom. This conflict is about which group gets to control the country and repress everyone else. I for one would rather have a secular dictator than an Islamist one. In addition, it appear that the UN investigators have bought into the rebel's BS. There were very strong indications that the Houla massacre was actually carried out by the rebels and set up to look like it was done by Assad's forces in order to try and garner sympathy and support for these so-called rebels. It is without doubt that these rebels are perfectly capable of doing something like this in order to try and sway world opinion. The US and the rest of the western nations need to stay out of this conflict and let the people fight it out among themselves. This is a civil war and should be resolved by the people of Syria, not through outside interference. Outside interference has already handed Egypt and Libya over to the Islamists, it is time that the west woke up and recognized these rebels for what they are and stayed out of these conflicts. The Arab Spring has turned into more of an Arab Winter and nothing should be done to help or promote more of these uprisings.
I've said it before and will say it again. For hundreds and hundreds of years the conflicts have gone on in the Middle East. One group rules, kills, and does pretty much whatever they want until another group rises up with their own army and destroys them so they can take over. They eventually do the same killings, rapes, and torture as the ones they overthru. Been that way forever and shows no chance that it will ever change from these backwards people as they can't or won't enter the modern world.
Wet Willy,
"Who appointed this politically driven and ineffectual and corrupt outfit as the policemen of the world?"
To answer your question: From the 21st of August to the 7th of October 1944, representatives from the US, UK, France, USSR and the RoC met at Dumbarton Oaks to discuss founding the United Nations. Eisenhower was instrumental in this creation.
At the United Nations Conference on International Organization or the San Francisco Conference in 1945, the Charter was finalized, and had representatives from 50 allied nations.
There were 51 founding members of the United Nations:
South Africa
Argentina
Australia
Belarus
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Czechoslovakia
Chile
Republic of China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Egypt
El Salvador
Ecuador
Ethiopia
France
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India *
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Nicaragua
Norway
New Zealand
Panama
Paraguay
Filipino Netherlands
Peru
Poland
Dominican Republic
the United Kingdom
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
Ukraine
Union of the Soviet Socialist
Republics (the USSR)
the United States of America
(USA)
Uruguay
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Note that Eisenhower (Republican) was instrumental in the foundation of the United Nations and that Syria was one of the original founding members.
UN = New World Order.
not a civil war. does anyone pick up a dictionary anymore or do you just let someone tell you what the 'new' meaning is? a civil war is citizen against citizen, a rebellion is citizen against government, a invasion is an non-citizen against the government. which do you think syria is in? it sure aint a civil war folks. looks more like a quasi insurrection with some invasion by islamists to me.
in any case if anyone wants to stop assad then they need to wage war with syria, IMO i would take assad over any muslim theocracy as i dont need to be a muslim to live in syria under assad but muslims only want other muslims to live within their conquered nations, or, well you can pay a non muslim tax but they still treat you like dirt.
i have no issue with assad exerting control over HIS country, if the people dont like it then they can rebel and hope to win but as long as islamists are in there, it will never be a victory for the people, only oppression by islam.
the UN should investigate themselves for war crimes, they have plenty of skeletons like any political group.
So what was the American Civil War? According to those definitions it would have to be "none of the above" or simply "war".
UN = BAD JOKE
WTF? did you read any history? our civil war WAS CITIZEN AGAINST CITIZEN, the NORTH VS SOUTH. how thick can you get?
Indeed politics as usual. One is also forced to wonder about a recent war with a country, which did not attack anyone and did not have WMD's, and was thus was a war of aggression? As I recall the Nuremburg finding was that a war of aggression was determined to be the ultimate war crime. Perhaps one only has an atrocity if one can comprehend the number of bodies - when the body count gets above a hundred thousand or more it is no longer an atrocity - as in that case. This just to more clearly delineate the profound hypocrisy and absurdity inherent in trying to define acceptable 'torture', acceptable 'war crime' and so on. If we wish to eliminate this abomination from human actions we need to have a simple exclusion which is rigorously applied across the board - and that means investigating and punishing past and current very questionable actions which are unpleasantly close to home. You cannot pick and choose.
So lets get this straight.....Assad is now in the same category as Bush and Obama, but only Assad will be targeted? Something is up....this has been planned! The "rebels" are being killed, NOT by the Syrian govt...but by CIA snipers...and UK's MI6.....while "helping" the rebels! Cmon! Look at the map
http://www.freeworldmaps.net/middleeast/middle-east-map-political.gif
In Order....Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria...Hmmm? What does the US really want? Natural resources? Access from waterway to waterway? Already in Afghanistan we (Our soldiers) are protecting the OPIUM fields...which prior to us invading Afghanistan supplied 20% of the worlds Opium.now its upwards of 80% - 90%. Our government doesnt give a rats a55 about Afghanistan, Syria, or anybody!
arguesforsport,
"So what was the American Civil War? According to those definitions it would have to be "none of the above" or simply "war"."
I don't think they call it the "Civil War" in the South. I think it is more commonly known there as "The War between the States". Correct me if I am wrong, all you Southerners on here. That's just what I was taught in high school half a million years ago. But that may have changed since then.
you talking about obamas illegal invasion of libya right?
please list the war crimes bush or even obama did? since when did waging war become a criminal offense? and who is the higher authority for such 'crimes?'
now you can make a better case for unconstitutional acts committed by both and then from there find evidence to charge them with actual crimes within our jurisdiction.
Wet Willy,
Simple minds always resort to simple solutions. While sometimes Simple is better, not in the case where the question is complicated with many facets.
Mickey gave a very good response and suffice it to say that the formation of the organization was in response to the question, "What if?"The world was still reeling from the world war that began with Nationalism and huge military buildups in Europe and Asia. What if Hitler could have been stopped after the invasion of Poland and Chezklovockia, and What if Japan were stopped as they savagely raped and murdered million's in China in 1937-8?
The concept is good, but the reality is that the members of the organization use their individual political interest to divide the organization and make it useless as a military force. Syria is a good example. Russia and China block efforts to move in to restore order, but the cost of allowing inaction from the superpowers is to allow the Biological and Chemical weapons to get into the hands of Religious fanatic's that will hold the world hostage or worse.
If you want a preview of things to come look at the Pandemic of 1918 where the Spanish flu killed millions of the world population. In America, I believe the total numbered around 1 million. In 1918 that is a large number. I am not sure how that would equate today in numbers. That was also without the ability to travel around the world in hours instead of days.
The insanity of the powers using their influence to pander political gains for the reason of financial gain in the weapons business is even more insane. As if these people do not already have enough weapons in the Middle East.
The enemies of the US try to divert the interest and resources of the NATO and the UN by trying to focus on the citizens in the US being armed while they sell rocket launchers and chemical weapons that are used against innocent people around the world.
These folks in Syria are a mixture of faiths with the vast majority of Muslims. Most seem to be moderate, but when the radicals openly kill their own on the Internet and say (Yes we Can:), the message is clear to all that they will kill anyone who opposes them.There is also a minority of christians there whao ar going ask if survival is an option or not.
Were it possible for China and Russia to overcome their need for personal greed, we could allow NATO and the UN to enter with force and pull the teeth of all combatants. But since that is not possible, we will wait and see whether we need to acquire gas mask or not.
Lazarus
They just now figured this out.
So neither the north or the south had army s that wore uniforms and took commands from a military hierarchy? Some civilians may have fought for both sides, but it wasn't a civilian war, it involved 2 separate governments using military force against one another.
What are they teaching in school these days?
It's no longer a matter of "If" Assad will fall but "when." All indications are that Assad is going to fall. But how many more Syrians need to go with him?
Assad deserves to die a harsh death for the slaughter of tens of thousands b/c he is only thinking of himself.
He will. We have recent examples of what is coming his way.
As many as it takes. It's not up foreign governments. It's a civil war and people die in wars. Yes it's a matter of "when" Assad will fall. However he may fall when he dies of old age years from now. Nobody can say for sure.
so you prefer islamic theocratic rule to assads secular rule? sure worked well in the other secular countries that got conquered by islam recently. dont ya think?
Interesting theory Swagnut, wasn't there a secular ruler in Iraq before we invaded? So you were against the war in Iraq right? and what about the democratically elected secular ruler in Iran that we ran out of there before we placed the Shah in power? Kind of seems like maybe we should mind our own business and keep out of these wars altogether, rather than trying to impose our political will for our own gains. We don't appear to know what we're doing in any regard.
i would have only supported ousting sadaam if we took his country as our land otherwise the reason listed for invading iraq were valid US treaty and UN resolution violations with minor is WMD's, which he had before and after. we didnt take iraq so i do not support any further invasions unless we start gaining the spoils of war instead of draining our country under this false flag of 'democracy', we are a republic.
i would agree we need to stay out but for different reasons that what you have, if we cant fight a war to win then we should not be fighting and we have not been fighting to win in a very, very long time. by winning means complete submission and control over the target country.
Don't be surprised when those who are blinded to what is really happening realize that these "freedom fighters" are actually radical Islamists and will create another Iran or Yemen. I hate to say it but it takes a brutal Muslim dictator to control the radical Islamists and ensure any kind of peaceful society.
This fight is not about Al-Queera vs. Assad, but majority of syria people vs. Assad, his tribe (10% of the population) and his military tanks, helicopter gunships, and other heavy weapontry that the freedom fighters lack.
from NBC embedded reporter - Myth: FSA are al-Qaida or at least infiltrated by al-Qaida. There's no evidence of a large al-Qaida presence. This is not an al-Qaida fight. In the last day, we have met three rebel commanders. One was an air-conditioner repairman before the war. and a tomato and zucchini farmer. The third grew grain and lentils. One of the commanders considers himself an Islamist. The other two are more secular.
In total, the three commanders control about 1,500 men. Not one of the commanders supports al-Qaida, nor have any of the dozens rebels have we have met. Some reports that al-Qaida fighters had recently taken over the Baab al-Howa border crossing. There was a video that showed rebels carrying an all black flag, similar to ones favored by al-Qaida. We spoke with the rebel leader who carried the flag. He said he has nothing to do with al-Qaida and the flag was an Islamic one.
Believe what you will, John M. We'll see what happens in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and a few other select Muslim countries in the near future. In any event, I wasn't speaking about al-Qaeda, which is just one of many radical, Muslim terrorist organizations. Have you ever heard of Hezbollah? Perhaps you have heard of the Iranian RG and its minions?
Hezbollahsupports Assad and is against arab spring that is developing in varies countries like we have never seen before, where the people of the country instead of the dictator decide their leader. Claiming that is movement is not the people demanding their rights and freedom is your mistake
It is a war and they will take any help they can get...duh. If your a$$ was on the line and your life depended on it you would take aid from almost any group that offered it, I would bet money on it.
Why is Iran helping Assad then? Let me guess that is another radical muslim group...much like the Brotherhood in Egypt huh. You know the group that was not radical enough that some people broke away and formed a new group Hezbollah, nope never heard of them.
And by your logic in the end they will get another brutal muslim dictator. Therefore WTF do you care about people in another country? Are you not supposed to spout some right wing B.S. about "let them die, saves me money" or something like that?
I wonder if Israel is actually bluffing and trying to help out in Syria by saber rattling so that Iran does not commit as many troops and resources to the fight...hmm.
This morning it was reported that Iran, as well as Russia of course, are teamed up helping Assad with weapons, training, logistics and funds. Iran is terrified that Assad's fall will spell the end of the dictatorship in Iran. Hizbolah has been penetrating the border into Syria in support of the military, and Turkey just stopped a weapons shipment fom Iran to Syria.
My take? Syria will fall into hands of AlQaida (not before considerable bloodshed) and Iranians will re-start their revolution of 2009.
Well, war in itself is criminal; right? We shouldn't engage in any.
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Just right wing propaganda.
Both Hillary and Nancy, after having independently visited Assad, concluded that the Syrian leader was a true reformer.
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Both sides have committed war crimes? What a surprise. Are both sides Muslim?
War crimes occur on every side in every war. But not by everyone on every side. Robert Macnamerra has said that had the U.S. lost the war, they would have been charged with war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of Japanese and German Cities. Many German commanders, Incuding Erwin Rommel, were aquited of charges at the end of the war. Even durring the revolution Loyalists and Patriots did horrible things to civilians. Being Muslim has nothing to do with any of those crimes or the ones happening in Syria now.
Don't be silly. You really think the Germans and the Japanese, had they won the war, would have bothered charging war crimes???
And it does have something to do with this. Muslims are perpetrating most of the wars throughout the world right now and killing indiscriminately.
War crimes? That's redundant.
'war crimes' is a false charge when you dont get your way. war is war and there is no 'rules' to war and war is not a crime, two different things and they try to put them together.
Definition of CRIME
1
: an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law; especially : a gross violation of law
Definition of WAR
1
a (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such armed conflict
The real atrocities are going to come whan Assad falls. His group of Shiite Alawites are about 10% of the population while over 80% are Sunnis. When a small minority brutalizes and controls a large majority, the paybacks are always hell, especially when the regime is as brutal as that of the Assads. Who are really going to suffer are the tiny minority of Christians who, decades ago, threw in their lot with the Alawites. They helped to britalize the Sunni majority and they will get the most severe paybacks. They knew Assad was a snake all along and it was in his nature to be a snake. But the Christians chose to be a snake.
And Sunni Syrians are much more likely to be like Sunni Turks --- very secular and not particularly religious, let alone radical Islamists. But in recent years, Assad's people have literally been driving them toward this civil war as they tortured and imprisoned tens of thousands and killed thousands more.
Assad will lose this civil war for exactly the same reason the south lost our Civil War --- no money for arms and a war of attrition that they can never win.
You are correct in that majority of Syrians are secular, but in desperation they are accepting help, military and funds, from AlQaida. Help does not come with no strings attached.
Don't be fooled by the illusion that Syria is a cohesive country. The Alawites can withdraw into a small section of the country and make it their own. The Sunnis will simply take over the rest of the country, and the Alawites will be assisted by Iran and Russia, who have vital interests in having a foot along the Meditarranean coast. They can hold out for quite a long time, so chances are that if the rest of the country is ceded to the Sunnis, the Sunnis will not have the fight in them to face death simply to finish off Assad and his supporters. On the other hand, with Iran's and Russia's support Assad could well defeat the Sunnis and then be a staunch ally for them, including letting Iran establish a military presence in Syria.
I would not be surprised to see Iran or Russia provide military forces to support Assad. Russia already has a base there, and could use the effort to show that the U.S. is not the only military power on earth. Obama would be in a pickle, because he could not risk a war with Russia, especially where Russia already has established a military base and has reason to prevent it from being attacked by the insurgents.
So? Barack Obama was complicit in the UN bombings and air strikes that killed civilians in Libya. Why weren't those war crimes? Even NATO is not justified in targeting innocent women and children, yet their excuse was that they thought they were targeting command and control facilities. I think they were trying to terrorize the government supporting population.
Even today Obama is conducting predator drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, killing people who are not combatants, but merely "suspected" terrorists. (Sounds a lot like Bashar Assad's claims, doesn't it?) Those suspected terrorists included Pakistani soldiers and unarmed teenage children, including one American citizen. Why aren't those called "war crimes"? Oh that's right, because we aren't at war with Pakistan or Yemen, so they are merely crimes against humanity, and since Obama is ordering these killings, they must be, to quote our President, "the right thing to do." We can only hope that once Obama loses the immunity from prosecution that comes with being president, he will be prosecuted in the World Court or elsewhere for his murders.
Wow the UN investigators conclude.......
Now is the time to Wake Up before these UN Criminals shove US into their UN Gray State to be forced to eat their UN Soylent Green only available if we work in their UN Labor Camps, for our UN Safety......For the UN Educated....UN Google it!
There is ONLY one way to break free of Our Children from Their UN conclusions.......Come November
it is a Democratic Incumbent Vote Republican!
If it is a Republican Incumbent Vote Democratic!
Then come January we can begin to GET RID of all of those UN Criminals in Washington DC who continue to Imprison US in these "Endless" UN "Not Wars" merely for "Their Owners" UN Criminal Corporations Fun & Profit!
Johnson is running for president. You don't hear about him because the banks only support democrats and republicans. Vote for independents or who ever else is running. No dems or repubs.
Well that be GREAT if possible but not very realistic.....Better to try a Full Political Body Transplant and get a Brand New Bunch of Corporate Demo/Repub Criminals in Office. For at least then we GET RID of the Seniority System in Congress which is how ALL of the REALLY Nasty Deals get Done Anyway!
Who knows maybe a MLK JFK or even a DEE might suddenly appear out of the NEW Bunch to save US! First though we have to Break The Strangle Hold Wall Street Has Over Our Media & Politicians before the UN Troops arrive in America to Stop US For THEM For Our Own Safety!
Sadly Right Now the Senior Crooks in Washington DC & Wall Street Will NEVER let that Happen.....
Case in point Gary Johnson...So again Refuse To Re-Elect ANY Incumbent then next Gary might have a chance!
UN has no room to say anything. They are going through Africa taking out whole villages women and children and the US government is backing them. Time to get rid of the UN and all politicians now holding office in Washington
war is hell .... laywer's are demon's ....
If Assad, is not brought to justice and hung for these atrocities, then once again, it will show what a farce the UN is!
Assad has a right to defend Syria against these same foreign terrorist that took down the WTC on 9-11 ! Atrocities? Try Clinton for bombing the Serbian children praying at Church. Or the women with infants at the Iraqi bomb shelter ! Or the rebels thugs that are murdering and beheading Syrian prisoners ! Check your facts !
The UN can't actually DO anything in Syria much for the same rules Syria agreed to in forming the UN. If Assad is caught or not should (and rightly so) rest with the people or Syria. To make the people have a realistically balanced chance to make that change happen in a consideration however.
brilliant, the UN is really going out on a limb here. I'm not a war historian but explain to me what war did not have war crimes associated with it.
Right so now we should Secretly Support Al-Qaeda in Syria for the UN like POMPUS Obama got caught doing last week.....WRONG!
We should return to Exterminating Al-Qaeda anywhere they are found and not Secretly supporting them once again just like the UN used Bumbling Barry do in Libya and Refuse to Re-Elect ANY of these SECRET UN Al-Qaeda Supporters come November!
America our only choice is to STOP Rewarding these UN Criminals with Re-election for Lying to US and Our Children's only hope for a real future is to Prosecute EVERYONE of these UN Al-Qaeda Supporters come January!
Especially the King Be for he's truly and UN Imaginably Dangerous to all of US!
Can you imagine the Screams of Outrage if GWB had Gone to War for the UN without Congressional Approval and then demanded the Power to Assassinate & Indefinitely Detain American Citizens Without Trial? Don't believe it....Google NDAA 2011
Well just wait until King George Prescott Bush gets into office with these new powers....But by then it will be too late for ANY of US to SCREAM!
Assad days are numbered,just a matter of time-when the people get their act together and better weapons then you will see Assads military go down.
the un??? a joke. war crimes??? unless you're there or endure the hardship - be quite.
both sides have committed crimes - but then again - where is/was the un when it has been happening for years???? so - un talk - harsh words of "the time is now", or i have never seen x,y,z", etc - get a grip un - worthless org. btw - what and how much are participating countries paid per soldier when they go to a "troubled region/country"?
These UN Criminals are just trying use NBCNews to "Beat The War Drums" over their make believe "Poor Little Children" to CYA POMPUS Obama's and his #1 UN War Criminal Hillery to Sucker US into another Billion Dollar "Not War" like Libya for Al-Qaeda!
Remember King Bee has said "They" need NOTHING but UN Approval to get US to another of the UN Not Wars.......All for their Real Masters....The Military Industrial Corporations on Wall Street!
Bumbling Barry gets US involved.....Impeach The Bumbler!
PS Help Defend US from the UN...Do Not Re-Elect ANY Incumbent in November!
war trials? i doudt it.
What a joke ! The rebels target and murder Christians on a regular bassis. They have murdered a priest and tortured prisoners ! The rebels have beheaded Syrians as well ! The UN have just became a group of war criminals themselves ! The nato rapes in Libya, the bombing of the Iraqi bomb shelter, Houla baby killers etc. Shame on the UN thugs ! Already Turkey occupies parts of Syria ( Sanjak of Alexandretta ), and Israel occupies the Syrian Golan Heights ! It seems that the UN is just a political group of low life !!!
Yes, war crimes on some scale happen in every war. You don’t always see highly organized gunmen raiding villages and killing hundreds of women and children (from their own country) without provocation.
I wish kim the whore kartrashian and her entire worthless family would go visit the frontline in Syria. So sick of hearing about a worthless wannabe porn star. Like Jeremy said, a ridiculous family with zero talent. And the world knows it. The only losers that follow them sit on their couch and eat cheetos all day long. Losers.
BS, the Christian and Alawite communties in Syrai are being targeted and decimated by these so called rebels. Iraqi Christians that have sought refuge in Syria are @!$%#tingtheir pants. Already two high profile slaughters that the media blamed Assad for, were then found out to be carried out by these "rebels". This whole thing is orchestared to bring down the last of the independent governemnts that don't take their marching orders from western capital finance. Both Hussein and Qaddafi were ready to screw these bastards over, but since the bastards own the US and NATO they bombed the @!$%# out of them and killed them. Libya had the highest standard of living in the Arab world, a lot better than those @!$%#ty dictatorships on the Saudi Peninsula. Cheap housing and food, along with free cars and apartments for young families starting out, etc. Not bad for a so called slimy dictator. Do our democratically elected leaders do anything like that for us? Shoot they just sell us out all the time!!! Damn, I rather have a dictator that tries to do some good than some elected @!$%# that is just after power!!
United Numbskulls aka U.N. was not started/founded by Eisenhower.
" The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of other signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October each year.
The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States
Source: Basic Facts - About the United Nations
United Nations Publication
Sales No. E.04.I.7
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers."
Regardless of who or when this group of incompetent Bureaucrats got together. It has been about as effective as the League of Nations. It needs to be removed from the U.S. In addition we need to reduce our funding by 95%. Let the rest of the World carry the expense. Syria is a mess. We can and maybe should let it fall. Russia will try to run the show there until the Syrians unite to drive them out.
We will get sucked into some Major World Conflict between now and the Elections. Especially if it looks like the current POTUS is going to loose.
"Hitler and Judaism both guilty for the holocaust" book created to also understand and solve the Middle East Conflict and establish world peace and justice; available in Amazon, English and Spanish.
“Hitler and Judaism both guilty for the holocaust” book created to also understand and solve the Middle East Conflict and establish world peace and justice; available in Amazon, English and Spanish.