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| Syrian agents break up Aleppo protest |
| 2011-05-18 |
[Al Jazeera] Syrian security agents have violently dispersed university students protesting 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... in the country's second-largest city 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... a human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activist has said. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency quoted Mustafa Osso as saying that dozens were maimed after the protesting students were attacked with batons on Tuesday. He said many of the students were chased into their dormitories and badly beaten. The university has seen several anti-regime demonstrations in the past weeks. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... Syrian activists used Facebook to call for a general strike throughout Syria on Wednesday to protest the security crackdown on anti-government protesters. One of the protesters' main Facebook pages, The Syrian Revolution 2011, had a picture of a child saying "father, your participation in the strike is a guarantee for my future". Osso said security forces with clubs also dispersed a rally on Monday of about 3,000 in the central city of Homs. On Monday night, thousands of demonstrators marched through 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 Saqba at the funeral of Ahmad Ataya, who died of wounds inflicted when security forces fired at a pro-democracy rally in the capital last month. It was the biggest protest in the Damascus outskirts since a security crackdown began three weeks ago. There were also protests in the southern city of Deraa and in other towns across the country. On Tuesday, Syrian tanks moved into a southern city of Nawa, near Deraa, after encircling it for the past three weeks, activists told the Rooters news agency. Rights activist Osso also told the AP there was little news from the western town of Tel Kelakh, a town of about 70,000, which has been under siege by security forces since Thursday. He said residents of nearby areas were still hearing cracks of gunfire but it was not clear whether there were injuries. At least 16 people - eight of them members of the same family - have been killed in recent days in Tel Kelakh, witnesses and activists said. |
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