Syria Rebel Alliance Leader to Arab League: Syrian People Being Slaughtered for Two Years

"before the world's eyes"

Head of the Syrian opposition, Mouaz al-Khatib, spoke during the Arab League's summit in Qatar and said "The Syrian people are being slaughtered before the world's eyes for more than two years."

"It is the Syrian people that have begun this revolution and it is them who will decide its fate," he said. This is the first time the opposition is representing Syria at the Arab League in Assad's stead