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"en.20120612.20.2-440-000"2
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"Mr President, a BBC journalist reporting from Syria concluded sadly, but accurately, that what happened in Houla at the end of May is terrible but is not unique.
Only yesterday, another one hundred people, many of them children, are estimated to have died across the country in this conflict that is sliding right into outright civil war.
The origins of the uprising in Syria as a genuine popular movement against the al-Assad police state and against the rule of the crooked elite have been increasingly forgotten by all of the dominant forces.
Sectarianism is deepening and there is a real danger of a conflict based on sectarian lines spilling over into other countries in the region.
As always, it is working people, the poor and children who suffer the most and the crocodile tears of sympathy from the imperialist powers, in my opinion, are deeply sickening, deeply hypocritical considering that the day after the Houla massacre, a NATO drone strike in Afghanistan killed eight members of one family.
Now, the US is using the failure of the so-called six-point peace plan to threaten action outside of it. One thing needs to be very clear: any military intervention, regardless of how it is dressed up, regardless of how it is disguised, will not ease the suffering of the Syrian people. The answer can only be a movement that unites working and poor people in Syria, regardless of religious and ethnic background, which can meet the aspirations of the participants in the uprising of March 2011."@en1
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