Thursday, May 17, 2012

Why does the Syrian opposition remain fractured?

Presumably in a bid to counter accusations that the group is out of touch with developments on the ground, the leading Syrian opposition body, the Syrian National Council (SNC) announced on Tuesday it would be sending some of its prominent members back to Syria in a bid to better reconnect with rebels on the ground.
This followed the announcement Monday evening by the SNC and the National Coordination Committee (NCC), the second-most widely recognized opposition body, that they were postponing talks aimed at finding common ground between different groups revolting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. It is the latest in a series of setbacks for the opposition and does little to counter criticism that it remains disjointed.

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