Dictatorships that oppress and murder together, stick together:

A key U.N. committee voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to condemn human rights violations by President Bashar Assad's government and called for an immediate end to all violence, signaling growing international opposition to Syria's eight-month crackdown on civilians.

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The resolution had more than 60 co-sponsors including Syria's fellow Arab nations Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain and Kuwait, and neighbor Turkey, which has been outspoken in its criticism of Assad's crackdown and is hosting Syrian opposition groups. Syria only got support from Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Iran, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam and Zimbabwe who objected to targeting a single country for what they called political motives.