TEHRAN (FNA)- Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East Haitham Abu Saeed said Sunday Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are behind the current bloodshed against the Syrian nation.
Abu Saeed expressed sorrow over Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey’s support for terrorist groups in Syria, and said, “Backing the opposition and supplying weapons to them results in continued violence in Syria.”
“We believe that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are responsible for each drop of blood spilled in Syria,” he said, and added the UN and human rights organizations have always voiced their strong opposition to the supply of arms to opposition groups in Syria.
Referring to the military support for dissidents in Syria, Abu Saeed said, “The West is fully aware that only 5 percent of armed opposition groups are Syrian nationals and the remaining 95 percent are militias from other countries.”
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.
The US daily, Washington Post, reported in May that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups battling the President Bashar al-Assad’s government have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States.
The newspaper, quoting opposition activists and US and foreign officials, reported that Obama administration officials emphasized the administration has expanded contacts with opposition military forces to provide the Persian Gulf nations with assessments of rebel credibility and command-and-control infrastructure.
According to the report, material is being stockpiled in Damascus, in Idlib near the Turkish border and in Zabadani on the Lebanese border.
Opposition activists who several months ago said the rebels were running out of ammunition said in May that the flow of weapons – most bought on the black market in neighboring countries or from elements of the Syrian military in the past – has significantly increased after a decision by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Persian Gulf states to provide millions of dollars in funding each month.
