US Senate passes resolution condemning Syrian government's violence against its people The USA Times

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Friday, May 25, 2012

US Senate passes resolution condemning Syrian government's violence against its people

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution condemning the Syrian government for violence against its people.

The Senate passed the nonbinding measure Friday on a voice vote. The resolution also expresses disappointment with China and Russia for vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn Syrian President Bashar Assad, urging the two countries to reconsider.

The resolution cites Syria's "brutal and unjustifiable use of force against civilians." The U.N. says more than 5,400 people have been killed since March in the government crackdown.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry, a Democrat, says there is consensus in the Middle East that Assad is doomed, but the end could be many months away in a probable civil war.