Arab Monitor Quits Syria Mission in Disgust ("Scenes of Horror")

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8. Aljazeera: Arab observer calls Syria mission a 'farce'

A former Arab League observer in Syria has decried the organisation's monitoring mission to the country as a "farce", as the UN Security Council heard security forces had stepped up the killing of protesters after the observers' arrival.

Anwar Malek, an Algerian member of the monitoring team, told Al Jazeera he resigned because of what he saw, and said that the mission was falling apart.

"What I saw was a humanitarian disaster. The regime is not just committing one war crime, but a series of crimes against its people," he said. "The snipers are everywhere shooting at civilians. People are being kidnapped. Prisoners are being tortured and none were released."

He said that security forces did not withdraw their tanks from the streets, but just hid them and then redeployed them after the observers left.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/01/201211163519970727.html