"At least 587 people were killed in Homs Province during that period, the report found, the highest death toll for a single province in the government’s crackdown on the uprising. A total of 3,500 people have been killed nationwide, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.
Since last Wednesday, when Syria agreed to the Arab League-sponsored peace initiative, at least 104 people have been killed in the Homs area, Human Rights Watch said. It said that 17 of them had died in custody, and 12 from torture. “Homs is a microcosm of the Syrian government’s brutality,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in the report. “The Arab League needs to tell President Assad that violating their agreement has consequences, and that it now supports Security Council action to end the carnage.”" Yes, Sarah. There is nobody to advocate for human rights than the Arab League. Why not urge Prince Nayif to spearhead the move for democracy and human rights in the region? This is like asking the terrorist state of Israel to serve as the guardian of humanitarianism and decency in the region.
