At least 150 people were killed in Syria on Sunday ,as the Syrian military launched an attack on the flashpoint protest city of Hama on the eve of the Muslim holy month
of Ramadan.While the government has termed the five-month uprising as the conspiracy by "armed gangs" working for some Arab and Western countries.
Activists witnessed one of the deadliest bouts of violence in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began more than four months ago.
As reports of the brutal military crackdown on Hama unfurled, Britain, Germany, France and Italy condemned the violence while a US diplomat said it was "full-on warfare".
U.S. President Barack Obama said he was “appalled” by brutality of Syrian military against the protesters and vowed to step up pressure to isolate President Bashar Assad.
UN Security Council member Germany has formally requested for emergency consultations by the 15-nation body on the Syrian issue.
From Monday India will take over from Germany as president of the council, fixing the body's agenda.
UNSC was unable to agree even a statement on President Bashar al-Assad's four month-old crackdown on protesters .
Western European countries circulated a draft resolution on June 8 on Syrian crisis but both allies of Syria both China , Russia have threatened to veto it.
Ban reaffirmed Syria's obligation to respect human rights, including the freedom to demonstrate peacefully and urged Assad "to listen to the legitimate aspirations of the population."
"It is one of the deadliest days" since the protests erupted in mid-March, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
On the other hand Syrian President Bashar Assad said his country is capable of foiling any conspiracy to undermine its national unity.
"Syria is capable of foiling the new chapter in the conspiracy through the awareness of its people and national unity," Assad said in a speech published in the People's Army Magazine to mark the 66th anniversary of the Syrian Arab Army.
Syrian President Bashar Assad also remarked that Syria will remain free in its 'resistant course' to achieve peace, including the 'Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab lands up to the June 4th, 1967 line.'
Syrian army colonel Riad al-Asaad said that he has defected with "hundreds" of soldiers and warned the regime against launching a crackdown on the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor.
"I am the commander of the Syrian Free Army," he said."We are hundreds," he added of the number of troops under his command.
As government forces intensified a pre-Ramadan crackdown against protests a massive military convoy headed to quash growing anti-regime dissent in the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor.
Deir ez-Zor, the capital of a province that carries the same name, is an oil hub but also one of the country's poorest regions.
On July 13, a blast occured at a gas pipeline near the town of Mayadin in the country’s main oil- and gas-producing region of Deir Ezzor province in the northeast.
As per the official data Oil production in Syria is about 380,000 barrels per day.
Demonstrators first took to the streets on March 15 demanding democratic reforms before turning their wrath on the regime and calling for its ouster.
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