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| Jisr al-Shughur siege |
| 2011-06-14 |
| [Al Jazeera] Some residents of Jisr al-Shughur who decamped to Turkey have told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that thousands of young men, including soldiers and police who switched sides and joined the uprising against Assad, had armed themselves and planted dynamite at the town entrances. Troops and tanks had laid siege to Jisr al-Shughur after authorities said the would retaliate against the reported killings of 120 security personnel last week. Syria's state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? reported on June 6 that security personnel had been killed in an ambush, but refugees and rights groups said the dead were mutinous soldiers, shot for refusing to fire on civilian protesters. Reports said troops removed 10 uniformed bodies from a mass grave in front of the military police building on Sunday. At least four of the bodies had their heads chopped off or struck on the head with an axe, according to an AP news hound who was invited to accompany the Syrian forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |