The UNSC Briefed on al-Houla Massacre.

Today (30/5/12) the Joint Special Envoy to Syria Kofi Annan gave the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) an update on his investigations into the al-Houla massacre. However that was pretty much all that happened in a very short (less then 2hrs) meeting. This was because funnily enough on the day that Charles Taylor was sentenced UNSC members such as Britain and the United States were in no mood to have a serious discussion about bringing those responsible for the massacre to justice. They were though forced to admit that the Syrian government has been telling the truth all this time because there are heavily armed terrorist groups actively waging war against the Syrian government.

As for the briefing the Joint Special Envoy laid responsibility for the al-Houla massacre on the Shabiha militia. This is interesting because roughly translated from Arabic "Shabiha" means "Ghost." Another English word for "Ghost" is "Spook" which is also used to describe members of the western intelligence community or spies. So the Joint Special Envoy is blaming the al-Houla massacre on the Spook militia. To me that sounds like a man who is trying to tell the truth but is afraid to say it directly in case Britain and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) put a stop to his funding. Mind you at this point that might not be a bad thing because the sooner the Joint Special Envoy's six point plan is out of the way the sooner we can start work on bringing a peaceful political transition to Syria.