Assad Forms Commission Tasked with Legalizing Political Parties
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday signed a decree setting a commission tasked with legalizing political parties.
The commission is chaired by the prime minister and comprises a magistrate and two lawyers.
On August 4, the embattled president signed a decree authorizing the creation of political parties alongside the ruling Baath party which has monopolized power for nearly five decades.
Assad on Sunday said Syria will reform at its own pace, ruling out bowing to Western demands.
"When they speak of reforms, Western colonialist countries mean that we must give them everything they want, that we abandon resistance, that we abandon our rights.
"They shouldn't even dream of it," he said in his fourth television appearance since the start of the pro-democracy demonstrations on March 15.
22 August 2011, 18:52
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Too Little too late! Assad cannot take credit for giving the Free Syrians what is rightfully theirs and is already within their grasp at this stage. He should have made good on the past thousands of false promisses he made to do that. Anything short than him stepping down and standing trial with members of his regime would not be acceptable for the Free Syrians. Of Course his "die hard " supporters (at least acting as such) if any should know that the desperate strictly Assad Family Regime regime would sacrifice them all in a heart beat for the sake of its survival and they should at the earliest disctance themselves from this murderous at this stage radio active regime before its too late. Of Course this should not be seen as the Sunni revolt against the Alawaite regime because there was never such a thing it was strictly an Assad Family mafia Regime that terrorized anyone that did not put him/herself at its disposal (be they Alawites, Sunnis, Christians, Druze and others...).
