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...
after Western leaders demanded he step down.
Fifteen people, including two children, were killed in separate shootings on protesters in the southern province of Daraa, while three were killed in the central city of Homs and two in the 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...
suburb of Harasta, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The shootings come a day after Assad told the U.N. chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
that his security forces ended operations against civilians.
Russia and Turkey meanwhile dismissed growing calls for Assad to quit, which were led on Thursday by U.S. President Barack
B.O.Obama, offering the embattled Syrian leader rare support even as he faced tougher international sanctions.
On the political front, a group of "revolutionary blocs" formed a coalition vowing to bring down the regime and paid tribute to more than 2,000 civilians killed in crackdown on protesters since the uprising began mid-March.