Developing: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on all nations to place travel bans and freeze the assets of senior Syrian officials. Clinton also called on nations to boycott Syrian oil and suspend new investments.
Clinton said the Syrian government and allied states will have “even more blood on their hands” if aid is not allowed into the country, and said Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad will pay a “heavy price” for violating the rights of the Syrian people.
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It’s a lovely idea, but the people of Homs cannot wait for bans or blockades; they are dying now and their streets are running with the blood of the people. I fail to see where Syria is not this year’s Libya, and how the world seems paralyzed in indecision despite the graphic evidence of the crimes of Bashar al-Assad. The world has blood on its hands, now.
(via iradeh)
