United Nations to Investigate Syria Rights Abuses - NYTimes.com
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5 Deaths Reported in Syria as U.N. Investigates Violence
By NADA BAKRI
Published: August 23, 2011
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Even as a United Nations human rights team was investigating the violence in Syria, activists said Tuesday that security forces killed at least five more civilians in an assault on the suburbs of Hama, one of the country’s most restive cities.
The team was sent by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate what it has called “systematic human rights violations” in the government’s attempt to crush five months of protests challenging President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power. Activists said Tuesday that among those killed were three women caught in raids on al-Ghab plain, a stretch of farmland in the northwest. ....[read more at link]
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