Clashes intensify in Syria
- 12 years ago
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Amateur video from Syria shows protesters said to have been wounded by government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
The wounded are carried to safety-- while gunshots are heard in the background.
Another video purports to show Syrian soldiers shooting into the air with machine guns- effectually blocking worshippers from leaving a mosque.
Reuters cannot independently verify the content of either of the videoes.
Despite the presence of United Nations monitors on the ground in Syria, the situation between government forces anti-government rebels, is deteriorating. And fast.
U.N. chief monitor, Robert Mood.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED NATIONS SUPERVISION MISSION IN SYRIA (UNSMIS) CHIEF, ROBERT MOOD, SAYING:
"There appears to be a lack of willingness to seek the peaceful transition, the peaceful way forward that we are longing for and that the Syrian people are longing for. Instead there is a push towards advancing military positions."
Major powers are now working towards holding a crisis meeting in Geneva at the end of the month in an effort to try to get a tattered peace plan back on track.
Julie Noce, Reuters
Amateur video from Syria shows protesters said to have been wounded by government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
The wounded are carried to safety-- while gunshots are heard in the background.
Another video purports to show Syrian soldiers shooting into the air with machine guns- effectually blocking worshippers from leaving a mosque.
Reuters cannot independently verify the content of either of the videoes.
Despite the presence of United Nations monitors on the ground in Syria, the situation between government forces anti-government rebels, is deteriorating. And fast.
U.N. chief monitor, Robert Mood.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) UNITED NATIONS SUPERVISION MISSION IN SYRIA (UNSMIS) CHIEF, ROBERT MOOD, SAYING:
"There appears to be a lack of willingness to seek the peaceful transition, the peaceful way forward that we are longing for and that the Syrian people are longing for. Instead there is a push towards advancing military positions."
Major powers are now working towards holding a crisis meeting in Geneva at the end of the month in an effort to try to get a tattered peace plan back on track.
Julie Noce, Reuters