Syria Unrest: Death Toll Rises to 7000

The failure to agree a UN resolution on Syria proposed by Arab and European countries had encouraged Damascus to start a war inside the country. Mr. Ban Ki-moon described the situation as stepping up its war on its own people. Everyone can see it clearly by the recent shelling by the Syrian army in the city of Homs. Though the government aimed to crush the rebel forces but the victims are mostly general innocent people. 95 people have been killed only in Thursday’s bomb shelling. And hundreds have reportedly died since last week.

Homs is the third largest city in Syria. It has been the leading focus of the unrest which started 11 month ago when the people started to stand against President Bashar al-Assad's rule. So the government started to use heavy artillery to keep the rebels down. The worst shelling has been in the Baba Amr district which killed 50 people on Wednesday alone. The Syrian governments trooped have stepped up operations at Syria’s borders to stop arm reaching the rebels. The army operations against the rebels are also being continued in the northern city of Idlib, the southern province of Deraa and the town of Zabadani which is in the north of Damascus.

More than 7,000 people have been killed by the Syrian security forces since March when the rebels started to demand of Mr. Assad to stand down. The opposition leader also dismissed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comment about that Mr. Assad was ready to talk with all political forces to end the violence. The proposal of the Arab League was that President Assad had to hand power to a deputy to oversee a transition. But China and Russia vetoed this plan and UN was failed to make any resolution. According to the govt. at least 2,000 members of security forces have been killed. Where Syria restricts access to foreign media it is impossible to be sure of anything.

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