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| Syrian Troops Kill 57 amid Clashes near Lebanese Border |
| 2012-03-28 |
| [An Nahar] Syrian security forces killed at least 57 people on Tuesday across Syria, amid festivities with rebel troops, including near the border with Leb, activists said. Thirty-one people were killed in Idlib, including 23 who were summarily executed, 12 people were killed in Homs, eight in Hama, five in the countryside around Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... and one in Daraa, the uprising's Local Coordination Committees announced. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a man died in intense festivities near the Homs town of Qusayr, near the border with Leb. Officials said the festivities spilled over into Leb as Syrian troops chasing rebels made a brief incursion into a sparsely populated area of Leb's eastern Bekaa region. One Lebanese official, who requested anonymity, said Syrian troops briefly entered the Lebanese side of Masharii al-Qaa, a remote region that straddles both countries. He said one house in the area was hit by mortar rounds and gunfire. Its residents had decamped shortly beforehand, he added Another local resident said several houses were hit. The border between both countries is poorly demarcated and residents on both sides travel freely across on a regular basis. Syrian troops have made several brief incursions into Leb since the outbreak of the revolt against the regime of Bashir al-Assad a year ago. A front man for Syrian refugees in Leb, Ahmed Moussa, told Agence La Belle France Presse that 75 families had crossed into the eastern Bekaa on Monday. An AFP correspondent saw three mini-vans filled with women and kiddies fleeing the fighting in Qusayr. Fierce festivities were also taking place on Tuesday in Saraqeb, in the northwest province of Idlib, where there were unconfirmed reports that 21 local residents jugged by regime forces had been killed, the Observatory said. Most of Saraqeb's residents have decamped the town in recent days in the face of a fierce assault by regime troops seeking to stamp out Death Eaters in the area. "Armed rebels have withdrawn from the town after attacking two security posts," the Observatory said. In Deir Sanbal, also in Idlib province, two soldiers were killed in festivities with rebels. In Damascus province, heavy gunfire was reported in fields between the capital's Qadam neighborhood and the town of Daraya, the Observatory said. One woman was killed early Tuesday by a stray bullet in the Damascus suburb of Douma and two other women died in Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I thought they accepted Koffee's "peace plan"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-03-28 05:08 |
| #1 per one of the anti assad websites, the fatality total is over 11,800 as of 3-25-2012. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2012-03-28 00:09 |