Syria rejects UN charges as more die

Syria yesterday flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity, even as monitors said troops killed dozens of civilians in the heaviest shelling of the protest city of Homs for days.

Navi Pillay, the top human rights representative at the UN, said the world body’s inaction had “emboldened” Syria’s government to unleash overwhelming force against its own civilians.

“The nature and scale of abuses committed by Syrian forces indicate that crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed since March 2011,” she told the general assembly.