Bloodshed continues in Syria

Despite all the warnings of a regional spillover of the conflict is the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued violence against the opposition. The southern province of Daraa government troops attacked on Saturday while a birthplace of the rebellion that began 16 months ago. At least 25 people were killed, reported the organization of Syrian human rights monitors in London. A total of 40 people nationwide have been killed. To end the bloodshed in Russia is that China has blocked so far as a harder line against the Assad regime in the Security Council, and for an international peace conference involving Iran. The aim must be to enforce the peace plan of the Syrian Special Representative Kofi Annan. "We see no alternative to the plan," the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday in Moscow. A military intervention as in Libya would lead to a conflagration in the region with many more victims. Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned of the consequences of military intervention. "There is no silver bullet. We vote in a whole region for potentially explosive and difficult situation between options, of which, after joint evaluation of all our partners, the political is "by far the best, he said the" world "on Sunday. The danger is great that not only Lebanon, but also other neighboring countries could find themselves in the maelstrom. "We must prevent this," warned Westerwelle. The Russian government called on Westerwelle, the statements Annan, who sees the responsibility for the atrocities in Syria, mainly in the Assad regime to take this opportunity, "their attitude to reconsider and to implement a non-military solution to the threat of sanctions in the Security Council to participate. " In the fighting between government troops and rebels were in Daraa on Saturday, according to activists and even a family of ten women and three children killed. Dozens were injured, it said. Opposition further reported that all mobile calls are disconnected after Daraa. In the province of Homs, according to activists were twelve people in the artillery fire of the government troops were killed. Two soldiers died in Andan therefore also in the northern province of Aleppo. On Friday, were, according to the local coordination committees across the country came more than 50 people lost their lives fighting. Meanwhile, UN observers have begun to investigate the massacre in the village of Al-Kobeir in the province of Hama. The 25-member team arrived there on Friday after a first failed attempt was the day before. In Al-Kobeir on Wednesday, more than 80 people have been killed. After opposition, the information people were bludgeoned and slashed with knives. "We have seen that several houses were destroyed by fire," said Sausan Ghosbeh, a spokeswoman for the UN observers. "Other houses were burned down in it with charred bodies." The village was "almost deserted".