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Syria intensifies crackdown on protests
[Al Jazeera] Syrian security forces have tossed in the calaboose at least 500 freedom fighters, a rights group said, as the government continues a violent crackdown on anti-government protests across the country.The arrests followed the deployment of Syrian troops backed by tanks and heavy armour on the streets of two southern towns, the Syrian rights organisation Sawasiah said on Tuesday. The group said it had received reports that at least 20 people were killed in the city of Deraa in the aftermath of the raid by troops loyal to Syrian president Bashir al-Assad on Monday. But communications have been cut in the city, making it difficult to confirm the information. "Witnesses managed to tell us that at least 20 civilians have been killed in Deraa, but we do not have their names and we cannot verify," a Sawasiah official told the Rooters news agency. The group said that two more civilians were confirmed dead after government forces entered Douma, a suburb of the capital, Damascus. ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti but it's never been big on the personal freedom thingy... At least 500 people were tossed in the calaboose elsewhere in the country, it said Posted by: Fred 2011-04-27 |
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