13 Jul 2012 18:11

Russia demands investigation into massacre in Syria's Tremseh

MOSCOW. July 13 (Interfax) - Moscow condemns the killings of civilians in the Syrian community of Tremseh and demands that these events be thoroughly investigated, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

"We strongly condemn this bloody heinous deed," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in reply to a question from Interfax on Friday.

"Not meaning to prejudge the results of an investigation into this crime, on which we insist, we would like to stress: we have no doubts that this heinous deed benefits forces that are not seeking peace but are persistently trying to raise seeds of inter-religious enmity and civil conflict on Syrian soil and that do not care about the Syrian people's grief and sufferings," he said.