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| Civilian deaths in Syria protests rise to 500 - group Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:13 AM PDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces have killed at least 500 civilians in a crackdown on a "peaceful democratic uprising", Syrian human rights organisation Sawasiah said on Thursday. Sawasiah, founded by jailed Syrian human rights lawyer Mohannad al-Hassani, also said thousands of Syrians have been arrested and scores have gone missing after demonstrations demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption began almost six weeks ago. "We call on civilised governments to take action to stop the bloodbath in Syria and to rein in the Syrian regime and halt its murders, torture, sieges and arrests. We have the names of at least 500 confirmed killed," Sawasiah said in a statement sent to Reuters. "The regime continues its organised campaign of killings against its own people with impunity. The shelling of Deraa is a crime against humanity," the statement said, referring to the army using tanks to crush resistance in the city of Deraa, where the protests began. (Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis; Editing by Janet Lawrence) Copyright © 2011 Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. | ||
| N.Korean leader ready to restart talks on any issue, Carter says Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:13 AM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is willing to hold talks without precondictions on "any" issue, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said at the end of a trip to Pyongyang to try to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula. "Chairman and General Secretary Kim Jong-il said he iis willing and the people of North Korea are willing to negotiate with South Korea or with the United States or with the six powers on any subject any time and without any preconditions," Carter told a press conference on Thursday.
Carter and three other former state leaders -- known as The Elders -- met the North's leaders in Pyongyang during a "private" visit in which they were also due to discuss the impoverished North's pleas for food aid. He did not meet with Kim Jong-il in person, but received a note from him. (Reporting by Jeremy Laurence and Jack Kim; Editing by David Chance) Copyright © 2011 Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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