We don't feel our people. Nobody kill - no government in the world, kill its people unless it's created by crazy person. For me, as president, I became president because of the public support. It's impossible for anyone in this state to be ordered to kill.
Bashar al-Assad denies that the Syrian government is killing its own people, claiming that no government would do such a thing.
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We don't kill our people. Nobody kill -- no government in the world kill its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.
He's also using the same -- literally, the same false rhetoric that was used by Mubarak, that's been used by Gadhafi, blaming satellite news channels, blaming foreigners, blaming unnamed conspiracies.
The Syrian state has really now left the decent and conservative order of nations.
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