Russia at the UNSC: ‘A third force – terrorists or external agents – seeking to trigger outside intervention’
May 28th, 2012
’Horror in Houla’
“…“It still remains unclear what happened and what triggered what,” said Russia’s deputy UN ambassador, Alexander Pankin. “We understand that the village … was not under the control of the government forces. We understood that there was a lot of demonstration in one of the districts of this village and allegedly firing and shelling started afterwards.”He said it was unlikely government forces would have killed civilians at point-blank range and suggested there was a third force – terrorists or external agents – seeking to trigger outside intervention …”
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