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"en.20110915.14.4-123-000"2
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"Madam President, I support the revolutionary movement against the Assad dictatorship. The brutal character of that regime has been very clearly demonstrated by the regime’s own actions. It has massacred thousands of people, disappeared thousands, tortured thousands. Many horrific stories have circulated, including the fact that they have used snipers against government soldiers in order to in turn force the government soldiers to fire on protestors. However, the crocodile tears of US President Obama and other imperialist leaders should be rejected for the self-interested posturing which they are. The opposition movement has correctly rejected any call for imperialist intervention, because any intervention – like that in Libya – would simply be for their own interests.
Only a mass movement of the Syrian people cutting across ethnic and religious lines can develop the movement forward and can ensure a clean break with the regime and no strengthening of imperialism. A democratic government representing the mass of the Syrian people is needed – a workers’ and poor peasants’ government. Such a government, on the basis of democratic control and ownership of the key sectors of the economy, could use the country’s massive resources to raise the living standards of all."@en1
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