UN concerns mount over besieged Syrians

Valerie Amos. Was just telling the world service about "people besieged [in Syria], whether by government or by opposition sources", and it is just a lie that the opposition has been doing this. Many Syrians are on the brink of starvation because their own government denies them food (Amos had just been to see some of them, in the Palestian refugee camp in Yarmouk). She repeats a few more of the international community's excuses for maintaining Assad in power in the interview here.
"The security situation is becoming worse, now that you have fighting between some of these opposition forces." No, now that the al-Qaida types who did nothing to fight Assad have been cleared out, the simplicity of the struggle between an autocrat and the sizeable majority of Syrians can re-assert itself.