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Bashar Al Assad: We don't feel our people. Nobody kill - no government in the world, kill its people unless it's created by crazy person.…

On the recordDecember 8, 2011
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.
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Bashar Al Assad

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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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