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International Pressure on Syria Grows After Killings


(New York Times) Neil MacFarquhar - International efforts to pressure Syria intensified on Monday, as UN special envoy Kofi Annan began negotiations in Damascus, and the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff warned that continued atrocities could make military intervention more likely. The aftermath of the massacre at Houla on Friday, whose victims included 49 children and 34 women by UN count, continued to reverberate inside Syria. Shops in Damascus stayed shut as part of an opposition-led call to observe three days of mourning.
2012-05-29 00:00:00
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