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Syria: new deaths in clashes in Deraa
2011-03-24
[Ennahar] Syrian security forces opened fire Wednesday at the funeral of two of the five people killed in the night in Deraa, in southern Syria, said a Human Rights activist, speaking about several maimed.

"Live ammunitions were fired while the parents of both victims and protesters were returning from the funeral," the activist said on condition of anonymity, adding: "There were injuries."

An AFP photographer saw a person "head injuries" in a city hospital.

The two people buried were a young girl, Ibtissam Massalmeh, and a doctor, Ali Ghoudab al- Mahamid, both killed in the night by police, said the activist.

At the same time, exchanges of fire took place between security forces and protesters around the al-Omari, which became their rallying point round which took place on the night festivities, according to an AFP news hound who has seen a casualty.

Deraa, a hundred miles south of Damascus, is encircled by the army and the anti-terrorist forces. In the afternoon, the streets were deserted and most shops closed.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Aren't most of young President Assad's ministers and staff holdovers from his father's time? He may not even have any say where/when the next Hama response will occur.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-03-24 23:36  

#5  Deraa: town where Lawrence was (pre-"Midnight Express")sodomized by Turks?
Posted by: borgboy   2011-03-24 19:50  

#4  fatality count (beginning 3-22) is approaching 50 as of late pm local time
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-03-24 12:36  

#3  Did Pencil Neck take lessons from how his daddy dealt with rebellion in Hama?
http://www.mafhoum.com/press2/63P58.htm
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-03-24 08:08  

#2  Yesterday's action by Syrian security forces killed over a dozen. The people killed were in stores, homes and in a mosque. Protests are continuing but as of now, as Gromgoru says this is low on the world's scope

Articles here and here and here
Posted by: lord garth   2011-03-24 07:16  

#1  Nobody cares.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-03-24 05:45  

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