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| 57 Civilians, 12 Troops Dead as Syrians Rally for 'Right to Self-defense' |
| 2012-01-28 |
| [An Nahar] Syrian forces on Friday raided the rebellious city of Homs and rubbed out at least 60 people across the country, activists said, as protesters erupted into the streets under the slogan "The Right to Self-defense," which refers to their support for the rebel Free Syrian Army. The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces rubbed out 60 people including five children, three women and three army deserters. Separately, two attacks killed 12 members of the security forces, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Six were killed in a car boom targeting a security checkpoint in the northwestern city of Idlib. The other six were killed and five maimed in the southern province of Daraa when army deserters ambushed two buses transporting security personnel, the Observatory's Rami Abdul Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. The pre-dawn assault, and reports of similar offensives against Hama and other cities, came hours after the U.N. said it could no longer keep track of the corpse count in Syria, which it put at more than 5,400 over a month ago. The Homs raid began in the Karm al-Zeitoun neighborhood, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The LCC said that by Friday regime forces had pounded the Bab Seba neighborhood with heavy artillery and rocket fire. Fighting was also heard in Baba Amro district. The activist group said three people were killed early Friday in Homs. The Observatory said another flashpoint central city, Hama, also came under assault in the early hours of Friday, with intense firing from heavy machineguns and loud kabooms heard. In the outskirts of 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... , an 11-year-old boy was killed at a checkpoint in Hamuriyeh, the Observatory said, and in 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 country's second-biggest city, six non-combatants were killed when security forces "fired indiscriminately" on demonstrators in the al-Marjeh neighborhood, the first fatalities in the city since the beginning of the uprising. The Syrian National Council, the biggest opposition umbrella group, condemned the offensives against opposition strongholds and said it was in contact with members of the U.N. Security Council to press for strong condemnation of Syria. Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... the rebel Free Syrian Army said it had captured five Iranian soldiers in Homs who it said were under orders of the Syrian intelligence service. The Turkey-based group, formed from deserters from the Syrian army, called on Iran to admit its support for the embattled Syrian regime and demanded the officers immediately leave the Syrian territory. Violence across Syria claimed 62 lives on Thursday, the majority of them civilians in the central city of Homs, activists said Friday. "The number of civilians killed on Thursday, whose name and circumstances of death have been confirmed, reached 43, 33 of them in the city of Homs," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Homs toll includes nine children, the Observatory's statement said. Seven deserters and 12 soldiers were also killed on the same day. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I'm sure that Beltway bandits for the Brady Campaign see the hand of the National Rifle Association at work in Syria. "They're everywhere! They're everywhere!" |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-28 08:44 |
| #1 I know how they tend to define 'civilians' and 'children' these days, so I hesitate to get worked up. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-28 07:04 |