Brutal Killings in Syria Bring New Urgency to UN Response

Quoted by Patrick Martin, The Globe and Mail

“The fact that UN monitors ended up confirming the massacre should come as a further proof of the accuracy of reports and videos produced by field activists,” said an impatient Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian activist and fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

“If we don’t draw the line at Houla, larger massacres will follow,” he warned, “and the fragmentation of Syria will become unstoppable, with regional and global consequences.”