Assad may be offered clemency by Britain and US if he joins peace talks

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Assad may be offered clemency by Britain and US if he joins peace talks

Patrick Wintour, political editor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 June 2012

Britain and America are willing to offer the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, safe passage – and even clemency – as part of a diplomatic push to convene a UN-sponsored conference in Geneva on political transition in Syria.

The initiative comes after David Cameron and Barack Obama received encouragement from Russia's President Vladimir Putin in separate bilateral talks at the G20 in Mexico.

A senior British official said: "Those of us who had bilaterals thought there was just enough out of those meetings to make it worth pursuing the objective of negotiating a transitional process in Syria."

With daily reports of civilian deaths and the conflict apparently taking on an increasingly sectarian hue, Britain is willing to discuss giving clemency to Assad if it would allow a transitional conference to be launched. He could even be offered safe passage to attend the conference.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/21/assad-clemency-syria-peace-talks

[clang1]

1. Assad may be offered clemency by Britain and US if he joins peace talks

Ah JESUS CHRISTO Here we go. Fuk Assad. The SOB belongs in a cage.

[teddy51]

2. What gives the US and UK this power? I would think it would be up to the UN

[clang1]

3. re: What gives the US and UK this power? I would think it would be up to the UN

No shite for sure. His crimes are more of an international flavor and are genocidal. And shit, clemency where? They gonna let that pig into the US? No. No. No. That will NEVER happen. Let him go to UK where ICC can pick him up.

EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION IN THE
EUROPEAN UNION
http://fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Extraterritorial_Jurisdiction_In_the_27_Member_States_of_the_European_Union_FINAL.pdf

Q&A: International Criminal Court
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11809908

Rome Statute
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/english/rome_statute(e).pdf

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. Genocidal? Really?

Assad's army could keep their atrocities up for ten more years and never even come close to the horrors that the US/UK (for example) have inflicted upon the world, and that's only considering actions in recent memory. Where is their ICC indictment?!

[clang1]

5. I don't think Genocidal behaviors are soley based upon body counts.

Just so you know.

[clang1]

6. Hey dude

If your an Assad fan, I don't think you'll gain much traction here. Have a nice day.

[Alamuti Lotus]

8. I do love the chickenshit arguments you people keep falling back on

In the absence of any real, factual, rational refutation of somebody like myself, there's always a seemingly endless supply of wretched hyperbole and of course the old standby equivalent of "hey dude go tell your best buddy Assad he's a poophead, LOL!!!!111!!!". Well, please have a crappy day.

[leveymg]

7. They need to try the Saudi/GCC Foreign Ministers along with him, if the charge is genocide.

It takes two sides to fund and fight what is essentially a Sunni vs. Shi'ia religious war.