UN chief urges end to killing as Syria announces amnesty

UN chief Ban Ki-moon yesterday urged Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his own people, saying the path of repression was a “dead end”, as Damascus announced a general amnesty for crimes committed during the unrest.

“Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people.

The path of repression is a dead end,” Ban said in a an address at a conference in Beirut on democracy in the Arab world.