UN nominee calls UN’s Syria inaction a ‘disgrace’

ALJAZEERA: …”We see the failure of the UN Security Council to respond to the slaughter in Syria – a disgrace that history will judge harshly,” [Samantha] Power said in testimony that also praised the New York-based world body.

Under questioning from senators, she called Syria one of the worst “cases of mass brutality” that she has ever seen.

Power, 42, a former White House national security staffer and journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of US failures to prevent genocide and is seen as an advocate of an activist foreign policy… (more)

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