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| Sectarian Tension Rising in Syria |
| 2011-05-08 |
| [Tolo News] Sectarian tensions are reportedly on the rise in Syria as Syrian forces stepped up crackdown on the protesters amid international concerns. Syrian forces and tanks have enterened the mainly Sunni city pf Baniyas on Saturday increasing the fears that sectarian tensions will increase in the country. Baniyas is a key protest city against the government with a population of 50,000 people. Syrian troops have advanced towards the Sunni districts, according to rights campaigners who have contacted Rooters. More than 580 people have been killed in the protests against 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... since mid-March, according to right activists. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... a Syrian rights groups has claimed to have a list of 8,00 civilians killed so far. Twenty seven protesters were reportedly killed on Friday alone after which the US President Barack B.O.Obama threatened to consider new measures against Syria if the violent crackdown does not stop. Communication has been cut off in the city and some residents have said they could hear the sound of gunfire. People in the city of Deraaa staged a demonstration seven weeks ago demanding political freedom and an end to corruption. But Baniyas has reportedly been the scene of some persistent protests recently. Syrian authorities have described the coastal city as a centre of Salafist ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... terrorism, an accusation that civic leaderws in Baniyas have denied. President Assad has called the protesters part of a foreign conspiracy to cause sectarian violence in the country. The Syrian leader still struggles to stay in power despite international sanctions against his government and the new warnings by the US to take new steps against him. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It was something else before? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-05-08 01:29 |