Promotion and protection of human rights are of highest importance to Syria…Syria’s candidature to the Human Rights Council signifies its commitment to respect and to support the inalienable and indivisible nature of all human rights...Syria believes that its membership on the Human Rights Council would contribute towards enriching the quality of dialogue…aimed at the promotion and protection of human rights for all peoples.[emphasis added]Generally, pledges are a somewhat solemn affair--serious business.
Syria's pledge as part of the process leading up to the May 20 elections take a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.
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Otter: Flounder, I am appointing you pledge representative to the social committee.
Flounder: Gee Otter, thanks. What do I have to do?
Otter: It means you have to drive us to the Food King.
Quote from the movie Animal House
But that kind of depends on where you're take the pledge.
Under the circumstances, the pledge at Animal House appears to be more serious that the kind they take at the UN. Or at least more honest.
What exactly is going on in Syria these days, where the Syrian government is dedicated to a "commitment to respect and to support the inalienable and indivisible nature of all human rights" and the "promotion and protection of human rights for all peoples"
Babylon and Beyond has 3 videos that tell a different story: Videos claim to show snipers shooting at demonstrators, scenes of tumult at Friday's protests
Babylon and Beyond: The video above is said to show snipers shooting at protesters from rooftops in Syria during demonstrations. Crowds are heard shouting and screaming as shots ring out around them. At one point the camera closes in on a man positioned atop a building, purportedly a sniper.
Babylon and Beyond: Here, a video said to have been filmed in the Damascus suburb of Duma on Friday shows a crowd of people running down a street amid a hail of shots.
Babylon and Beyond: A video from the city of Homs purportedly filmed on Friday depicts chaos and tumult in the streets. A cloud of white smoke is seen plummeting to the sky at one point in the clip and men are seen carrying people laying in the streets.
If all the UN Human Rights Council wanted from the Syrian representative was that he should run down to the local Food King to pick up lunch for the other members, it wouldn't be so bad.
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Threatening to mass murder your own people and shooting those who want change dead, qualifies you to be a human rights paragon!
ReplyDeleteNo one thinks anything is amiss with Syria's joining the UN Human Rights Council.
Go figure.