Syria accuses UN's Pillay of 'flagrant bias'

The Syrian regime on Tuesday accused UN human rights chief Navi Pillay of "flagrant bias" a day after she warned violations in the war-torn country had reached "horrific dimensions". The Syrian delegation to the UN'S Human Rights Council "strongly denounced the flagrant bias of Navi Pillay over the situation" in Syria, state news agency SANA reported.
Pillay "blames the Syrian government and ignores the human rights violations committed on a grand scale by al Qaeda, the Al-Nusra Front and Islamist extremist groups," it said. On Monday, Pillay decried the "horrific" level of rights violations in Syria, as the UN's top rights body decided to hold an urgent debate on the situation in the country.