Monday, March 28, 2011

On Facebook appeal for "popular uprising" burned the palaces of power

DAMASCUS - In the aftermath of violent clashes and anti-regime demonstrations that have affected several towns in Syria, has appeared on Facebook a call to "popular uprising" in all provinces. A TAFAS, a small town near Dara, epicenter of the protest, thousands of people who had attended a funeral today stormed and set fire to a Baath Party headquarters and a police station.

And to give you hundreds of protesters are back in the main square chanting dislocate, lauding the "freedom". Some demonstrators climbed over the rubble of the statue of the late President Hafez al-Assad, father of the head of state. Demonstrators tore down the statue during the protests yesterday, and they hoisted a banner that read: "The people want the fall of the regime." Intense gunfire also Latakia port in the north-west of Damascus, capital of the region from which the Alawite Assad's presidential family.

Protests also in Homs, 180 km north of Damascus, where the police have lost hundreds of young protesters today. Even in these revolts the role of the Internet and social networking appears to be relevant. "Today, Saturday, the popular uprising in all Syrian governorates," reads the appeal on Facebook.

The text contains a phrase popular Syrian Arab untranslatable used by insurgents who fought against the French mandate, taken in a famous television series aired in recent days in the country. The protests were origne by Dara and have expanded to Sanmina, Daeel, Damascus, Duma, Banias and Hama.

Syrian President Assad might take a short televised address to the nation to announce "the implementation of decisions" announced last Thursday. He reports a "government source" Syrian, quoted by the pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV. The President may announce the fall of the government and the formation of a new government.

Victims. Figures provided by medical sources, taken by Al Jazeera, in seven days repressive security forces would uscciso more than 150 people. The sniper shootings have made seven victims in the city of Latakia on the coast. According to Al Jazeera, the imam of a local mosque said that the Syrian police and unidentified persons opened fire at random against the residents.

And in the evening the Syrian army intervened in force in the port city. From London, the director of the Syrian Human Rights, Rami Abdelrahman, announced that they have been issued more than 200 political prisoners, mostly Muslim, who had signed an application for freedom. "But the authorities confirmed with the news.

The lawyer Khalil Matouq Damascus for its part, reported that among people released from prison there are several members of the Kurdish Democratic Party and some Muslim leaders. All, however, have served the sentence that was imposed, but had not been issued despite the expiry of the period of detention.

Matouq then stated that it asked the government to free all people who were arrested by police during anti-government demonstrations in recent days. The authorities have promised that tomorrow will consider the requests. Syria has spoken of the crisis the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, who has put the authorities in Damascus against the risk of an escalation of violence: "Recent events - said in a statement - clearly demonstrate that the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations does not address the expectations of the people who want to enjoy the fundamental human rights that were denied for a long time.

" Even the head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, said she was "shocked" by the violent repression of protesters and urged local authorities "to meet the legitimate demands and aspirations of the people" and Syria "to stop the violence immediately."

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