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Syria's Srebrenica: The UN Again Plays Accomplice to a Massacre
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The UN Security Council on Sunday condemned Syria's government for the killing of 108 people, mostly women and children, in Houla on Friday. But the condemnation was incomplete: It should have included the Security Council itself for providing the diplomatic cover that has let the Assad government continue its killing. In April the UN turned to aiding and abetting the regime with its mission to send Kofi Annan to Damascus as a special "peace" envoy. Annan, who as a former UN Secretary-General is perfectly trained for the role of accommodating dictators, brokered a cease-fire that he said Syria's Bashar Assad promised to obey. The UN is every bit as complicit in the Houla murders as it was when Dutch peacekeepers stood by and did nothing as the Serbs massacred thousands of Bosnians in Srebrenica in 1995.