Nine people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, two in the restive countryside around Damascus...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world...
, one in the northwestern province of Idlib and another in the northern province of 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...
, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on ground, said.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces and pro-regime militias killed two civilians in Idlib province, adding that a soldier died during festivities with army defectors in the same region.
The United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
says that 5,400 people have been killed by forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad's
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
regime since protests erupted in March.
Damascus routinely blames the violence in Syria on "gangs" and "terrorists" backed by foreign powers pursuing an agenda of regime change.