UN chief Ban Ki-moon demands Syrian president Bashar al Assad to stop the violence

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded Sunday from Beirut that Syrian President Bashar al Assad stop the continued killing of his people.

"Today, I say again to President (Bashar) Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people," Ban said during his keynote address at a conference on democracy in the Middle East.

The UN chief said the “old order” of a one-man dictatorship and family dynasties are over in the Middle East and that the Arab Spring shows the people reject tyranny, the Associated Press reported. 

"The old way, the old order, is crumbling," he said. "One-man rule and the perpetuation of family dynasties, monopolies of wealth and power, the silencing of the media, the deprivation of fundamental freedoms that are the birthright of every man, woman and child on this planet — to all of this, the people say: Enough!"

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Arab League monitors continued their mission Sunday and visited the coastal city of Banias and the restive town of Maaret al-Numan in northern Syria, where they were greeted with thousands of anti-Assad protesters.

The Syria mission has been under criticism over its ability to stop the regime-led violence. More than 400 civilians have been killed in the last three weeks alone adding to the more than 5,000 already dead since the government revolt began last February.

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In a possible move to deflate high tensions, President Assad offered amnesty to government defectors Sunday.

Activists groups and state-run news agencies in Syria reported new deaths on the same day ranging from 16 to 27.

The reported deaths cannot be independently verified as Syria bans most foreign reporters and limits local press.

Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby admitted earlier this week the Syria mission has not gone to plan and that civil war is a possibility if the increasingly militarized clashes continue.

And despite increasing involvement by international entities, the West continued to emphasize their desire to not do a repeat of an intervention as they did in Libya, the Guardian reported.

The League’s foreign ministers are expected to meet at the end of the week in Cairo to evaluate the future of the observer mission.