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May 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said on Monday that Beijing “calls for an immediate investigation into this issue… to find the perpetrators.”
On May 25, deadly clashes broke out between Syrian forces and armed groups in Houla, located in the central province of Homs and about 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the provincial capital city of Homs.
Head of the UN observer mission in Syria Major General Robert Mood said in a briefing via video from Damascus to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Sunday that UN observers in Houla estimate 108 people were killed, including 49 children and 34 women.
“China is deeply shocked and strongly condemns the incident,” said Liu Weimin.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson also stated that Beijing calls on “relevant parties in Syria to immediately and comprehensively uphold relevant Security Council resolutions and [UN-Arab League envoy Kofi] Annan’s six-point proposal, stop all violence, properly protect innocent civilians, ease tensions there and push forward the political resolution of the Syrian issue.”
“This incident again shows that Syria should waste no time to implement the ceasefire and end the violence.”
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jihad Makdissi said a few hours before the Security Council meeting on Sunday that Damascus “completely” denies responsibility for “this terrorist massacre against our people.”
The UN Security Council condemned the violence in Houla during the Sunday meeting, saying the clashes “involved a series of government artillery and tank shelling on a residential neighborhood.”
However, Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar Ja’afari censured the “tsunami of lies” by some members of the Security Council and said the Syrian forces were not to blame for the violence.
Meanwhile, the Russian deputy ambassador to the UN said it was not clear who was responsible for the Houla killings.
“There are substantial grounds to believe that the majority of those who were killed were either slashed, cut by knives, or executed at point-blank distance,” he said, apparently implying that Syrian government forces were not responsible for the killings.
The fighting between Syrian forces and armed groups in Houla comes despite a ceasefire that took effect on April 12.
Reports say about 280 UN observers are currently monitoring the ceasefire, which was part of a six-point peace plan brokered by Annan in March.
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