Assad Said The Un to Stop Police Operations

by aleemah in Issues, August 18, 2011

Assad said the UN to stop police operations.

Amman Syrian President Bashar Assad told the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the military and police operations against pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested, the UN said.The announcement was released at a time when it is expected that the U.S. government call Al Assad to resign, sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity, reported ReutersThe call could be made as early as this Thursday, and the European Union expressed similar desires, sources said.In a telephone conversation with Syrian leader on Wednesday, Ban “expressed alarm at reports of widespread human rights violations and excessive force by security forces against civilians in Syria,” the UN said in a statement released Wednesday night.”The secretary general emphasized that all military operations and mass arrests must stop immediately. President Assad said the military and police operations were arrested,” the statement added.According to estimates, the government repression have left at least 2,000 civilians killed since the protests began five months ago.Envoys said they also hoped that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, suggest that the repression in Syria should be investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC).The developments are part of a series of diplomatic maneuvers that seek to increase pressure on Assad to cease the repression against the demonstrators.

Residents of the besieged port city of Latakia said on Wednesday that Syrian forces raided homes in a Sunni district, arresting hundreds of people and taking them to a stadium after an assault with tanks for four days even crush the protests.A

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ssad’s forces attacked the weekend al-Ramla al-Filistini (Palestinian arena), named in honor of a refugee camp in the 1950s, amid an armed campaign against the major urban centers that have intensified since the start of Ramadan.Latakia has a special meaning for Assad belongs to the Alawite minority in Syria. The president of 45 years, self-proclaimed defender of the Palestinian cause, comes from a town in the southeast where his father is buried. His family and friends control the port city and its financeSome Palestinians have joined demonstrations against Assad, even though Syria hosts exiled leaders of the Islamist movement Hamas and other Palestinian groups.