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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Over thirty killed in Syria, tanks in front of every mosque
2011-05-21
[Ennahar] About thirty four Syrians were killed yesterday in Syria, in the towns of Deraa, Homs and Sanameyn, while in the coastal city of Banias was organised the largest demonstration since the start of the uprising in Syria, nine weeks ago, according to information reported by activists for human rights
...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...

Syrian security forces killed at least 34 people when they opened fire Friday on protesters demanding democracy in several towns in Syria, according to a new record of Syrian activists of human rights.

Dozens of protesters were also maimed by the police, the activists have added.

The stock was the heaviest recorded in the town of Maaret al-Naamane, near the town of Idlib (west), where 15 people including a 15 year old boy, were killed by security forces who had opened fire to disperse the demonstrators, they said.

Twelve other protesters, including a 10 year old child and two teenagers aged 15 and 16, were killed by the bullets of security forces in Homs (center), a hotbed of opposition to the regime under siege by the army for almost two weeks, beturbanned goons have added.

Two other people were killed in the region of Deraa (south), home of the uprising raging in the country for over two months, a protester died in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
, Latakia, the main port of countries (West), one in Hama (center) and two in Deir Zor (east), they added.

The beturbanned goons gave a list of names of 34 victims.

Demonstrations took place in other cities around the country, despite the regime's measures to try to silence by force the revolt against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...

In the vicinity of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
, the second largest city located in a Kurdish region of northern Syria, hundreds of opponents chanted "no to violence, yes to dialogue" and "we are not Islamist or Salafist
...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't...
, we want freedom ", said Radif Mustafa, leader of a Kurdish organization for the Defence of Human Rights.

"Nobody calls for the fall of the regime," he added, while in the background you could hear in the street "azadi, azadi" (freedom in Kurdish).

At Banias in the north-west of the country, many men walked shirtless to show they were unarmed, contrary to the accusations of the regime, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

The protesters, men, women and kiddies-chanting slogans against the regime and in favour of freedom, claiming in particular the lifting of siege of cities in Syria, the source said.

At midday, security forces had not intervened to disperse the demonstrators.

Other demonstrations were held in towns and villages in the north-east, including Qamishli Amuda and Derbasiyeh, told AFP another cut-thoat, Hassan Berro.

The Syrian opposition had urged people to take to the streets after prayers that "Friday of Liberty, Azadi," saying that the two main cities-Damascus and Aleppo -- will surprise the authorities.
Posted by:Fred

#1  tanks in front of every mosque

Pancake breakfast at 8:00 am. Bingo and ribs at 5:00. Ladies night, gals wearing mosque jacket drink free until 7:30.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-05-21 09:25  

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