ANKARA
A spokesperson for the UN's human rights office said that most of the 108 people killed in Syria's Houla region on Friday were executed.
Talking to the press on Tuesday in Geneva, Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that according to witnesses most of the killings were carried out by pro-regime forces.
Colville's comments came after UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday in Damascus.
"In line with the investigation, fewer than 20 of the victims in the village of Taldou were killed by artillery or tank fire. Most of the rest of the victims in the village were summarily executed in two separate incidents," said Colville.
Colville also said that 49 children and 34 women were among the victims in Houla massacre.
Meanwhile, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has been harshly criticized by Syrian opponents for not doing what needed to be done according to his six point plan.
Annan had called the massacre in the Houla region "an appalling moment with profound consequences" before meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Monday.
The Annan Plan enabled to gain more time to regime forces, and the plan has been broken from the first day of its announcement, stated several opponents.
Talking to the AA correspondent via internet, Abu Ubeyd, a member of the Syrian Revolution General Commission, said that Annan's visit to Syria was meaningless. "Kofi Annan's visit to Damascus following the Houla massacre is pointless. The regime is breaking out the plan every day. The massacre indicates the plan is not working," said Ubeyd.
The plan had been accepted by Syrian regime to gain more time, stated Ubeyd.
Despite the Annan plan, civilians are being killed every day by Assad's forces. UN cannot help itself, how come they can help us?, said Ubeyd.
