Only a day after the new referendum on the new Consitution with continuous violence, Syria is under a lot of international pressure from many governments to immediately ceasefire and that leaders would not escape punishment for their actions. The United Nations top human rights offcial, Navi Pillay, addressed the Human Rights Council saying that Syria should head to the International Criminal Court for all of the horrible violence happening. Even Hillary Clinton went before Congress on Tuesday and said that there is an argument to be made that President al-Assad should be punished under the definition of crimes against humanity. So far, President al-Assad has disregarded any calls to step down from his presidency. Journalists in the neighborhood of Hom are being captured and some locations of these journalists are unknown. Some countries are calling the New Constitution a joke but some are calling it a step towards reform.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/world/middleeast/government-troops-close-in-on-syrian-rebels-after-referendum.html?_r=1&ref=world
Jessica Connor
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