A team of Arab League observers has arrived in Damascus to see if President Bashar al Assad keeps to the terms of the agreement designed to end months of bloodshed. The delegation begins its work even as neighbouring Turkey condemned Mr Assad for turning his country into a "bloodbath".
Syria, however, attempted to justify its crackdown on the demonstrators by announcing that more than 2,000 soldiers and members of the security forces had been killed in the last nine months.
The claim was made in a letter sent by the Syrian government to the UN, which itself estimates a total of 5,000 people have been killed in the violent uprising against Mr Assad's control.
Under the Arab League document, signed on Monday, the Syrian military will pull out of the towns and cities and take their heavy weaponry with them.
All political prisoners will be released, and the observers can roam the country without prior approval, and take the media with them.
By the end of the month about 15 groups of observers, working in teams of ten, should be in the country. Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment