Yasmine Canga-Valles,

Correspondent (Asia – Middle East & Central)

 

NEW YORK- Qatar’s Prime Minister denounced Syrian’s government “war of extermination” against its own people.

After the ‘four-days-ceasefire’ for the Eid-al Adha, one of the most important Islamic religious holidays, completely failed and left hundreds dead, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Al Thani, Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, accused the international community of watching on as Syria’s civilians are being massacred.

The Violation Documenting Center, a group documenting Syria conflict victim’s names, identified the number of the ‘ceasefire’ deaths to 407. The VDC announced that after the 20 months of fighting, Syria suffered a total loss of 32,013 civilians against 2,900 government soldiers in the same period.

According to Qatar’s News Agency, the PM affirmed: “What is happening in Syria is not a civil war but a genocide, a war of extermination with a license to kill by the Syrian government and the international community.” At the annual UN General Assembly in New York, this Tuesday, he pointed out the failure of the intervention act of the UN Security Council and advised that the Arab countries should take over.

However, Mohammed Morsi, president of Egypt, the country with the largest army force in the Arab World, refuses any intervention in the conflict already welcoming 150, 000 Syrian refugees (UN statistics).

According to Al Jazeera media network, Sheikh Hamad criticized the Security Council for failing “to reach an effective position”.

Indeed, later that day, US President, Barack Obama, spoke only too briefly about removing Al-Assad from power but did not come up with a clear plan despite the high state of emergency. Spinning around the question, he compared Syria’s situation to the intervention in Libya.

Since the beginning of the uprisings in March 2011, thousands of civilians have died; children are left with no schools and are traumatized eyewitnesses of many torture scenes; Damascus, one of the world’s most beautiful city is now in ashes…

The worst affected of this conflict are civilians, but with Security Council deadlock and the Arab countries divided, there is not much hope that the Syrian situation will be taken care of soon.