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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
12 Dead in Army, Deserters Clash in Idlib
2011-10-07
[An Nahar] Twelve people were killed in festivities between soldiers and deserters in villages of Idlib province in northwest Syria on Thursday, a human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
group said.

"Seven soldiers and five deserters were killed in the festivities in villages west of Jabal al-Zawiya," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that dozens were maimed.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Thursday that more than 2,900 people have been killed in the six months since the beginning of a crackdown on anti-government protests in Syria.

"According to the detailed list of names of individuals we've been keeping, the total number of people killed since protests began in Syria now stands at more than 2,900," Commission front man Rupert Colville told AFP in Geneva.

Colville said that figure could rise because "quite a lot more people" have been reported missing in Syria since the uprising 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...
's government in mid-March, and the U.N. has yet to verify their whereabouts.

Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a European-backed draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would have threatened possible action against Assad. Non-permanent members South Africa, Brazil, India, and Leb abstained.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last...
the official Syrian new agency SANA reported on Wednesday that the "competent authorities" in al-Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs seized a white Kia Rio Car with the license plate No. 418869.

The seized car was loaded with pump-action shotguns, automatic firearms, pistols, ammunition, military uniforms and torture instruments including cables and sticks, in addition to large amount of stimulant drugs, said SANA.

"The authorities tossed in the calaboose three armed terrorist members and discovered a place for kidnapping innocent individuals and torturing them in the same area," it added.

Posted by:Fred

#1  You'd think Brazil might be mildly sensitive to murders & disappearances of political dissidents...
Posted by: American Delight   2011-10-07 08:36  

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