Following the killings in Houla, U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan made an emergency trip to Damascus to meet with Assad. Annan said Syria has reached a “tipping point” after more than a year of conflict.

Kofi Annan: “I shared with President Assad my assessment that the six-point plan is not being implemented as it must. We are at a tipping point. The Syrian people do not want a future, their future, to be one of bloodshed and division. Yet the killings continue, and the abuses are still with us today.”