With Annan's peace plan 'dead,' rebel Syrian army calls for retaliatory attacks
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Source: CNN
CNN) -- Members of the rebel Free Syrian Army say the U.N.-backed peace plan for the country is "dead," with some rebels vowing to retaliate against government forces after a gruesome massacre left more than 85 people dead in one town.
"After such a long wait, a test of patience and steadfastness, the joint command of the FSA inside Syria announces that it is no longer possible to abide by the peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan, (which) the regime is taking advantage of in order to commit more massacres against our unarmed civilians," Free Syrian Army spokesman Col. Qasim Saad Eddine said in a video posted Saturday.
A key point of the peace plan brokered by Annan, the U.N.-Arab League special envoy to Syria, involves a cease-fire. But since the Syrian regime and opposition members accepted the plan in March, at least 1,635 people have been killed, the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria said Saturday.
International outrage grew amid new details on the attack in Houla, where at least 32 children were killed on Friday, said Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, head of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria. He said observers counted a total of at least 85 bodies.
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