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Sarkozy calls Syria’s Assad a ‘murderer,’ says he should face international court

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PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that Syria’s leader is acting like a murderer and should be sent to the International Criminal Court.

With diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria faltering, the French leader urged humanitarian corridors to allow refugees out and aid in to the country.

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( Michel Euler / Associated Press ) - France’s President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech to workers as he visits the manufacturer Sagem a French conglomerate company involved in aerospace, and defense and security equipment, as part of his campaign in Fougeres, western France, Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

( Rodrigo Abd, File / Associated Press ) - FILE - In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 file photo, a Syrian rebel reacts after learning the death of at least four comrades and several injured during clashes with Syrian government forces outside a hospital in Idlib, north Syria. In the previous days, troops had encircled Idlib, and tank shells pounded the city from dawn until evening. Rebels dashed through the streets, taking cover behind the corners of buildings as they clashed with the troops. Wounded fighters were piled into trucks bound for makeshift clinics.

“We must obtain humanitarian corridors, and for that we must unblock the Russian veto and Chinese veto” at the U.N. Security Council, Sarkozy told Europe-1 radio.

U.N. Security Council members are meeting to decide what to do next to try to stop the violence.

“The French army can in no way intervene” in Syria without U.N. backing, Sarkozy said. France, Syria’s former colonial ruler, was a leading player in the U.N.-mandated, NATO-led airstrike campaign in Libya.

Sarkozy reached out to both Assad and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi earlier in his tenure to try get them to cooperate with the international community. But after both leaders responded to uprisings last year with military repression of protesters, Sarkozy abandoned his support for them.

The U.N. estimates that more than 7,500 people have been killed since the anti-Assad struggle started a year ago inspired by Arab Spring uprisings elsewhere. As Assad’s forces used deadly force to stop the unrest, protests spread and some Syrians took up arms.

Assad “is today behaving like a murderer and will have to answer for himself at the International Criminal Court,” Sarkozy said.

International envoy Kofi Annan visited Syria over the weekend and was in Turkey on Tuesday to try to find a way to end the violence, but both the Syrian government and the opposition are refusing to talk to one another.

Sarkozy played down concerns about violence in Libya and the country’s direction after Gadhafi’s ouster.

“A country three times larger than France with 6 million residents, you have to leave it a bit of time. You cannot pass from dictatorship to democracy in 6 months,” he said.

Russia, which is Syria’s most powerful ally, and China have vetoed two U.S. and European-backed Security Council resolutions which would have condemned Assad’s bloody crackdown, saying they were unbalanced and demanded that only the government stop attacks, not the opposition.

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