Syria ignores Arab plan to stop bloodshed | Bangkok Post: news

Syrian troops pounded the protest hub of Homs on Monday, as an Arab League peacekeeping plan for the country went ignored and the UN rights chief said crimes against humanity had probably been committed.

Syrian families hide in a shelter near Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs. Syria on ignored a new Arab initiative to end the bloodshed, with its troops pounding Homs as the top UN rights official said crimes against humanity have probably been committed over the past year.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad swiftly rejected the Arab League initiative for a joint mission with the United Nations to end the bloodshed, and shelling resumed in Baba Amr, a rebel bastion in Homs, rights monitors said.