23/10/2012 15:40
Bashar al-Assad issued an amnesty for all crimes
Violence raged across war-torn Syria on Tuesday, a watchdog said, eroding hopes of a ceasefire for this week's Muslim Eid al-Adha as proposed by UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, the AFP reports.
"Neither the rebels nor the regime appear to want a ceasefire, and the daily death toll continues to exceed 100," Syrian Observatory of Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The two sides to the conflict have given a wary welcome to Brahimi's proposal but neither has committed itself to the plan, which envisages a ceasefire during the four-day Eid holiday that starts on Friday.
President Bashar al-Assad in a pre-Eid gesture issued an amnesty on Tuesday for all crimes committed in Syria "up until today," state television said.