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| Angry Syrian protesters bury 12 of their comrades |
| 2011-04-20 |
[Arab News] Thousands demanded the overthrow of Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-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... on Monday at the funeral of eight protesters killed in the central city of Homs as unrest swelled despite a promise to lift emergency law. Activists in Homs said the eight were killed late on Sunday during protests against the death in jug of a tribal leader. A rights group claimed at least 12 people died countrywide in violence on Sunday. Ammar Qurabi, head of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights, said apart from the eight deaths in Homs, 160 km north of 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... , four protesters were killed in festivities between security forces and protesters in the northern cities of Latakia and Idlib. "From alleyway to alleyway, from house to house, we want to overthrow you, Bashar," the mourners chanted, according to a witness at the funeral in Homs. YouTube footage showed thousands of people filling a wide city square. At least four coffins were carried by the funeral marchers, said a witness. Security forces stayed away from the mourners in an apparent move to avoid confrontation, said the witness. Assad, facing a month of demonstrations against his Baath party rule, said Saturday that legislation to replace nearly half a century of emergency law should be in place by next week. But his pledge did little to appease protesters calling for greater freedoms in Syria, or curb violence which human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations say has killed at least 200 people. "Homs is boiling. The security forces and the regime thugs have been provoking armed tribes for a month now," a rights activist told Rooters from the city. Civilians who erupted into the streets "were shot at in cold blood," he said. Further north in Jisr Al-Shughour around 1,000 people called on Monday for "the overthrow of the regime," echoing chants of protesters who overthrew leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, at the funeral of a man they said was killed by security forces. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem pledged Monday that Syria will go ahead with reforms as promised, but warned against "sabotage" committed by protesters, the state-run SANA news agency reported. "Those who want reforms should not use weapons or violence or carry out acts of sabotage by torching state institutions and cutting off roads," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |