Opposition calls for defection
Syria's main opposition group called on Sunday for Hezbollah fighters to defect, as members of the Lebanese Shiite movement led an assault on Qusair in central Syria a day after its leader vowed victory.
"Hezbollah repeats Assad's grievous mistake of forcing his people to kill innocent Syrians, which will undoubtedly lead the honorable members of Hezbollah to defect and stand by the truth," said a statement from the Syrian National Coalition.
"The Syrian Coalition hopes for peace for the people of Lebanon and rejects Hezbollah's call to turn the Syrian revolution into a regional conflict," the opposition group added.
The Syrian opposition said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "has used ideological, extremist and fringe rhetoric in order to push followers of Hezbollah into a war based on deception, false legacies and lies, driving the group to death and destruction".
Agence France-Presse
(China Daily 05/27/2013 page11)
