UN's Ban: Assad lost all legitimacy
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said President Bashar Al-Assad's regime has lost its legitimacy. "Each day seems to bring new additions to the grim catalogue of atrocities: assaults against the civilians, brutal human rights violations, mass arrests, torture, execution-style killing of whole families," he said.
"Men, women, even children (in Houla) were executed at a point blank range; some had their throats slit or their skulls crushed. Any regime or leader that tolerates such a killing of innocents has lost its fundamental humanity. We cannot allow mass killing to be part of daily life in Syria," he added. (Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington)
