Syria envoy draws parallel with Britain riots

August 11, 2011 16:52

Not willing to let go of this golden opportunity, the Syrian ambassador to the
UN rejected European criticism of his government's crackdown today and compared the protests in his country to this week's riots in Britain. The British envoy immediately branded the comparison as "absurd."
"It's very informative to hear the prime minister of England describing the riots and the rioters in England by using the term gangs," Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told reporters. "They don't allow us to use the same term for the armed groups and the terrorist groups in my country. This is hypocrisy. This is arrogance."

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