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| 66 Civilians among 90 Killed across Syria |
| 2012-04-11 |
| [An Nahar] Ninety people including 66 non-combatants were killed across Syria on Tuesday, the day the government was expected to pull its forces from protest hubs under a U.N.-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... peace plan, monitors said. The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 30 people in Homs, nine in Idlib, 22 in Hama, five in Daraa, two in 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... , one in the Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... suburb of Harasta and one in Deir al-Zour. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said among the dead were 19 members of the regime's security forces and five rebels killed in fighting in several provinces. Six non-combatants were killed in bombardment of the Khaldiyeh district of Homs city in the center of the country, and a seventh was rubbed out in the Bab Tadmur neighborhood, said the Observatory. In Hama province, also in central Syria, seven non-combatants were killed in Kfar Zeita, the scene of fierce festivities with rebels and aerial bombardment on Monday, the Britannia-based monitoring group said. Another four civilians were reported killed in Daraa province in the south, and a child was killed at Harasta near the capital, the Observatory said. In Deir al-Zour, a civilian was killed by gunfire, while eight others were killed in the region of Aleppo, it said. Five rebels were also reported killed in Daraa, Homs, Hama and Aleppo. In addition, 11 soldiers were killed in the northeast region of Hassakeh, five in Aleppo province and three near the Turkish border, according to the Observatory. |
| Posted by:Fred |