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faith in sanctions rather than force, Obama ordered Syrian government assets in the United States frozen, banned U.S. citizens from operating in or investing in d prohibited U.S. imports of Syrian oil products.Though U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Assad had assured him on Wednesday that military promotional items
operations were over, activists said Syrian forces carried out further raids in Deir al-Zor and surrounded a mosque in Latakia on Thursday."The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way," Obama said. "His calls for dialogue and reform have rung hollow while he is wholesale liquidation
imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering his own people."In a coordinated move, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Assad to step aside and said the EU was preparing to broaden sanctions against Syria.At the United Nations, Britain, Portugal, Germany and the United States said they would begin drafting yiwu agent
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Deputy U.N. Ambassador Philip Parham told reporters.U.N. human rights investigators said Assad's forces had carried out systematic attacks on civilians, often opening fire at close range and without warning, and committing dollar store
violations that may amount to crimes against humanity.A U.N. report issued in Geneva recounted complaints of indiscriminate shooting and of wounded people being put to death with knives or by being dumped in the refrigerated rooms of hospital morgues.CRACKDOWN "CONTINUING"The Security Council should consider referring the situation in Syria to the Hague-based International Criminal Court, the investigators said, adding that they had evidence against 50 suspects.U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay conveyed that message in a briefing to the council in New York later in the day. "I ... recommended referral" to the ICC, she told reporters. Diplomats said they would study the recommendation.In a telephone call with Assad on Wednesday U.N. Secretary General Ban joined a chorus of condemnation, expressing alarm at reports of widespread wholesale
violations of human rights and excessive use of force by security forces against civilians.The Syrian Revolution Coordinating Union, an activists' group, said security forces fired machineguns near a mosque in Latakia which was surrounded by armored vehicles.It also said Assad's forces killed at least one man when they fired live ammunition to stop residents from marching after Ramadan prayers in the Mureijeh neighborhood of Homs,