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Dozens dead in Syrian city after kidnappings
Activists say more than 60 bodies delivered to Homs hospitals after spate of kidnappings by regime militias.

More than 60 bodies have been taken to hospitals in the central Syrian city of Homs following a series of kidnappings that began on Sunday, activists have said.

Activists and residents of several neighbourhoods said on Monday that Sunni residents had been kidnapped by state-backed Alawi militias known as "shabiha".

The renewed violence in Homs, reportedly one of the bloodiest days since widespread anti-Assad protests began in March, came as the Syrian government responded positively to an Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
plan to send human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
observers to the country.

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
and the ruling elite are mostly Alawi, a sect of Shia Islam, while the majority of the country is Sunni. Protests against Assad that began in March have escalated into an armed conflict between the government and its militias on one side and civilians and defected soldiers on the other.

An activist in the Zahraa district told the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that shabiba had kidnapped and killed at least 34 people from districts of Homs known to oppose Assad.

The "majority" of the city's neighbourhoods were "bombarded heavily" beginning early on Monday morning, the observatory said.
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-12-06
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