UN veto gives Assad licence to kill: opposition

The opposition Syrian National Council on Sunday slammed the Russian and Chinese veto of a UN Security Council resolution on Syria as giving the regime of President Bashar al-Assad a licence to kill.The SNC said in a statement Syrians and others around the world had looked to the Security Council to issue a strongly worded resolution, one that would clearly condemn the Syrian regimes crimes; the atrocity and impunity with which it kills civilians, including women and children; and the genocide it commits in exterminating entire families.However, the world was shocked when the Russian and Chinese governments vetoed the draft Arab-European resolution, the statement said.