Morning Star.png Syria's President Assad: Amnesty If Insurgents Disarm The Morning Star, London, 2 March 2016 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad offered a "full amnesty" yesterday to any insurgents who lay down their weapons. He urged rebels: "Just to give up your armament, whether you want to join the political process, or not." On Monday, 1,200 fugitives were granted amnesty by the government in the southern province of Daraa. The same day, the Higher Judicial Commission for Elections said almost 5,600 candidates had registered for April's parliamentary poll, with the deadline set at 8pm today. United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura warned that provocations and attacks by Islamic State (Isis) and the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front were the biggest threat to the two-week truce. The Russian Defence Ministry said the ceasefire was holding despite sporadic violations. But yesterday a group of reporters on a Russian-organised visit to the north of Latakia province, close to the Turkish border, came under shellfire from Nusra Front forces. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-2731-Syria-Assad-offers-amnesty-to-insu rgents-who-disarm#.VtZx0Pl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
