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CAIRO, May 26 (KUNA) -- Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi
condemned in a press statement on Saturday the massacre that happened
yesterday in the area of Houla, which took the lives of scores of Syrians,
among them many women and children.
He behooved the UN Security Council to take immediate steps to stop the
incessant killings in Syria, being perpetrated by armed gangs and government
soldiers.
He said he was continuing his consultations with the UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-Moon and UN envoy Kofi Anan regarding the escalating violence in Syrian
towns and villages such as the incident in Houla, which is in close proximity
to the city of Homs. Up to 90 people died in that incident.
Meanwhile, a number of international monitors arrived today in Houla and
moved on to check the situation in other towns and villages such as Sultania,
Jouber, Saba, and Mourk, said the Syrian News Agency.
Furthermore, the Public Authority for Syrian Revolution announced today
that up to 13 people have been killed in acts of violence in Houla, noting
that other locations such as Homs have also seen much violence.
The massacre in Houla yesterday prompted huge crowds of demonstrators to
flood the streets in many cities across Syria, in protest of the intensity of
acts of violence that take the lives of innocent by-standers.
Government forces in some cities fired or launched tear-gas bombs at the
demonstrators, said a statement by the local coordination committees. (end)
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