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Syria continues crackdown, accused of crimes against humanity

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08-09-2011 | 06:16

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Syrian activists said that Syrian army sent security forces into northwestern villages after huge demonstrations occurred in the region.

"A force comprising seven armored vehicles and 10 jeeps stormed the village of Ibleen in Jabal al-Zawiyah (region) in search of people wanted by the security services," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.

"Heavy gunfire was heard as the forces stormed the village," the Observatory said in a statement received by Agence France Press. The assault on the village comes a day after regime forces, according to rights activists, killed another 23 people, 21 of them in a tank-backed raid on the central city of Homs.

The United Nations says 2,200 people have been killed since democracy protests flared in Syria in mid-March, with the brutal crackdown being widely condemned by world powers, some of whom have slapped sanctions on the Damascus regime.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe pulled no punches during talks on Wednesday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. "The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity," Juppe said.

Russia has staunchly opposed attempts by Western governments to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution targeting President Bashar Assad and has circulated an alternative draft calling for him to implement reforms.

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