Appearing with Kofi Annan, U.N. Security-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the massacre in Hama.

Ban Ki-moon: “Any regime or leader that tolerates such killing of innocents has lost its fundamental humanity. Today’s news reports of another massacre in al-Qubair and Kafr Zeta are shocking and sickening — a village apparently surrounded by Syrian forces, the bodies of innocent civilians lying there. They were shot, some allegedly burned or slashed with knives. We condemn this unspeakable barbarity and renew our determination to bring those responsible to account.”