UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Monday condemned Syria's escalated military attacks and "continued onslaught" against civilians in the city of Homs, in the wake of Russian and Chinese vetoes of a UN Security Council resolution, DPA reported.
"The lack of agreement in the Security Council gives no license to the Syrian authorities to step up attacks on the Syrian population," Ban said in his strongest statement yet on the bloodshed in Syria.
"No government can commit such acts against its people without its legitimacy being eroded."
The Security Council failed Saturday to adopt a resolution, which would have supported the Arab League's plan to work out a settlement in the Syrian crisis, after Russia and China vetoed the text.
Ban said Damascus is accountable under international law for the "acts of violence perpetrated by its security forces against the civilian population."
The UN estimated in December that more than 5,400 people had been killed, but has no longer kept up with the mounting death toll because of the daily killings in Syria.
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