Showing posts with label Syria Protests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syria Protests. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Military Assault Continues in Syria
Friday, August 12, 2011
Syrian Security Forces Open Fire at Protestors
Al Arabiya television said on Friday there were also demonstrations in the central city of Homs and the western city of Latakia.
Earlier, Syrian security forces killed at least 11 people in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country's Sunni tribal heartland.
Rights activists also said forces shot dead a man and a woman as they pursued a crackdown on a protest ahead of Ramadan Friday prayers.
The man was killed early on Friday while trying to flee when security forces began arresting residents in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told the AFP news agency.
Nightly Ramadan prayers, or 'tarawih', which follow the breaking of the fast, have given more Syrians a focus for daily protest marches against 41 years of Bashar al-Assad family rule over the country of 20 million, activists said.
Syrian authorities have expelled most independent journalists since the five-month-old uprising against the government of al-Assad began, making it difficult to verify reports from both sides.
The crackdown came a day after Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, urged nations around the world to step up pressure on al-Assad to curtail his government's brutal crackdown on protests.
In a televised interview on Thursday, Clinton suggested that China and India impose energy sanctions on Syria.
Clinton also urged Russia to stop selling arms to Damascus, which has bought arms from Moscow for decades.
She said in the interview with broadcasters that the US has been "very clear" in its statements about al-Assad's loss of legitimacy.
"But it's important that it's not just the American voice. And we want to make sure those voices are coming from around the world," Clinton said.
"What we really need to do to put the pressure on Assad is to sanction the oil and gas industry. And we want to see Europe take more steps in that direction.
"And we want China to take steps with us. We want to see India, because India and China have large energy investments inside of Syria. We want to see Russia cease selling arms to the Assad regime," the top US diplomat said.
Clinton's spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, told reporters earlier that she did not know when Russia last made an arms delivery to Syria.
But when asked if Washington had asked Russia to stop arms sales, Nuland replied: "We have repeatedly, yes, and over many, many years and more than one administration."
Clinton, meanwhile, welcomed the fact that China and Russia, after refusing to condemn Syria, backed a UN Security Council statement last week denouncing the regime's crackdown.
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Gulf Nations Call for Syrian Reform
The Saudi king on Monday condemned the crackdown, and urged the Syrian government to implement political reforms.
"What is happening in Syria is not acceptable for Saudi Arabia," King Abdullah said in a written statement.
"Syria should think wisely before it's too late and issue and enact reforms that are not merely promises but actual reforms," he said. "Either it chooses wisdom on its own or it will be pulled down into the depths of turmoil and loss."
Later in the day, Kuwait and Bahrain followed Saudi Arabia, announcing they too had decided to recall their ambassadors from Damascus for "consultations".
"No one can accept the bloodshed in Syria... The military option must be halted," Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, Kuwait's foreign minister told reporters.
His comments came a day after the Gulf Co-operation Council urged Syria to "end the bloodshed". In addition, the Arab League, which had been silent since the uprising began, said it was "alarmed" by the situation and called for the immediate halt of all violence.
Nabil El Araby, the head of the Arab league, urged Syrian authorities to launch "serious dialogue" with protesters.
According to Syrian State TV, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has replaced Ali Habib, the defence minister with Dawoud Rajha, the army's chief of staff. The official reason for Habib's replacement is due to illness.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Deaths Reported During Syria Protests
Security forces fired at demonstrators in Irbin, near Damascus, killing five people and wounding many others, Abdel Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian League for the Defence of Human Rights, an opposition group, told the AFP news agency in Nicosia, Cyprus.
"Thousands of demonstrators marched in Deir ez-Zor, Deraa and Qamishli in support of the city of Hama despite the extreme heat," he said.
He said they numbered 30,000 in Deir ez-Zor alone.
Another Syrian activist, Rami Abdel Rahman, said 20 people were wounded, seven of them seriously as security forces opened fire in the Ter Maala district of the central city of Homs.
Abdel Rahman said that "more than 12,000 people" marched in Bench, in the northern Idlib province, "to demand the fall of the regime and express their support for Hama and Deir ez-Zor".
Furthermore, "hundreds of people came out of the al-Mans Uri mosque in Jablah, chanting 'God is with us'," he said, referring to a city on Syria's Mediterranean coast.
State television said two members of the security forces were shot and wounded by armed men posted on rooftops in Douma, a suburb of Damascus.
Pro-democracy activists say communications have been completely cut off as the army steps up an operation to crush dissent in Hama, 200km north of Damascus, where security forces killed at least 30 civilians and wounded dozens more earlier in the week.
The call for Friday's solidarity protests came from activists on the Facebook group, The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind the demonstrations calling for greater freedoms in the country since mid-March.
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