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Nasrallah calls on Syrians to support Assad
[Al Jazeera] Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Leb's Hezbullies, has called on Syrians to support president Bashir al-Assad and enter into dialogue with the government to end weeks of ongoing protests across Syria.Nasrallah, speaking via video link from The date marks the end of Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Leb. "Bashar is serious about carrying out reforms but he has to do them gradually and in a responsible way; he should be given the chance to implement those reforms," Nasrallah told supporters gathered in the village of Nabi Sheet in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Rights groups have accused authorities in Syria of killing more than 1,000 people since protests against Assad's Baathist government began in March. Nasrallah's comments are his first on the protests against Hezbullies's ally in 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.... Sanctions condemned Despite a rising civilian corpse count, fresh protests calling for regime change across Syria have continued to challenge the 40-year-old dynasty of Assad's family, who are Alawite Shia Mohammedans. The Syrian government's crackdown has triggered international outrage and US and European sanctions, including assets freezes, travel bans and arms embargoes on Assad and other top members of the Baath party. Nasrallah condemned the recent US and EU sanctions on Assad and other government officials, and said Hezbullies will reject any formal Lebanese participation in implementing them. He said Hezbullies supported the Syrian government for its assistance in ending the Lebanese civil war and supporting "resistance movements" in the region. Hezbullies was founded in the early 1980s as a Shia resistance organisation to Israel's occupation, and has since become a political party within Leb.
Posted by: Fred 2011-05-26 |
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