"The Security Council United Nations should investigate the" mass deaths "at the hands of Syrian forces that could lead to open court proceedings in the International Criminal Court said on Sunday a prestigious group of lawyers. More than 330 people have died in five weeks of protests at the hands of security agents who fired on crowds, and activists are being arrested, said the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ for its acronym in English).
The ICJ said that the deaths occurred from March 15 in repression of protests in Dera Lakatia, Homs and other Syrian cities. Its network of lawyers, human rights defenders and activists groups in Syria gave up the names of most of the victims. "It is believed that the Syrian security forces, including members of the presidential guard and militias are perpetrating these attacks," he said in a statement the group of 52 lawyers based in Geneva.
The Security Council of the UN should protect peaceful demonstrators from illegal killing and examine the situation "in order to establish accountability for perpetrators and justice for the victims," said the secretary general of the ICJ, Wilder Tayler. The secret police conducted raids Sunday in homes of suspected dissidents in Damascus, told human rights activists, while increasing public opposition to the authoritarian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad have killed at least 112 people in the past two days, firing on protesters demanding political reforms and end of corruption on Friday and against the mourners at funerals for victims of repression Saturday. 
The ICJ said that the deaths occurred from March 15 in repression of protests in Dera Lakatia, Homs and other Syrian cities. Its network of lawyers, human rights defenders and activists groups in Syria gave up the names of most of the victims. "It is believed that the Syrian security forces, including members of the presidential guard and militias are perpetrating these attacks," he said in a statement the group of 52 lawyers based in Geneva.
The Security Council of the UN should protect peaceful demonstrators from illegal killing and examine the situation "in order to establish accountability for perpetrators and justice for the victims," said the secretary general of the ICJ, Wilder Tayler. The secret police conducted raids Sunday in homes of suspected dissidents in Damascus, told human rights activists, while increasing public opposition to the authoritarian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad have killed at least 112 people in the past two days, firing on protesters demanding political reforms and end of corruption on Friday and against the mourners at funerals for victims of repression Saturday.
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