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2,600 Have Died In Syria’s Repression, says UN
Posted On 12 Sep 2011
At least 400 people joined the death toll of the repression in Syria, the UN reported. “According to reliable sources on the field, the death toll from the outbreak of protests in mid-April has reached to 2,600,” said the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, while presenting the death toll as an answer to the forces of President Bashar Assad.
Bouthaina Shaaban, Syrian president’s principal adviser and one of the dominant voices in Damascus since the fighting began, said the victims are 1.400, 700 from the demonstrators’ side and 700 from security forces.
Shaaban is in Moscow by invitation of Russian government and parliament, one of the few allies that Syria still has, to report “what really is happening in Syria, in light of the distortions of the media, that only spread lies and rumors”.
The Russian government defends dialigue against unilateral action from the EU or U.S. as well as the oil embargo. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, during a press conference with British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said there is no need to put more pressure on the Assad.
(MS)