Wednesday, April 27, 2011

200 members of the Syrian Baath resigning because of the repression of protests

200 members of the Syrian ruling party, the Baath, which belongs to President Bashar Assad, has submitted his resignation Wednesday in Deraa province to protest the crackdown by security forces of the anti-government demonstrations that recorded in the area. Through a joint statement, the militants justified his resignation "in the negative position adopted by the Baath Party leadership, the party in power since 1963, to the events in Syria and Deraa.

The memo emphasizes that "hundreds" of people have died and "hundreds" more have been injured "at the hands of security forces." For that reason, they add, "we present our collective resignation." For this reason, "we present our collective resignation," added, thus adding to criticism from the community arrived internaional against the Government of Al Assad.

A subsequent statement sent to the agency, reported that 28 other party members in the coastal region of Banias have also opposed to "practices carried out by security forces against the honorable citizens, and torture and killings that have committed. " Meanwhile Russia, which along with China is opposed to a draft UN resolution, promoted by the European Union and the United States against the regime in Damascus, said in the Security Council to outside interference could lead Syria to a civil war and said the suppression of protests is not a threat to world peace.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has estimated Wednesday in at least 453 civilians killed during the protests that began in mid-March. The human rights organization yesterday amounted Sawasiah 35 the number of people killed between Monday and Tuesday in Deraa.

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