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Summary Syrian President Bashar al-Assad announced amnesty for crimes committed during unrest of 10 months.
Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people. The path of repression is a dead end, UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday in Beirut, Agence France-Presse reported.The UN says that more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syrias crackdown on protests that began in March, following on from uprisings that toppled three Arab leaders in 2011.From the very beginning of the revolutions, from Tunisia through Egypt and beyond, I called on leaders to listen to their people, Ban said, Reuters reported. Some did, and benefited. Others did not, and today they are reaping the whirlwind.
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