Friday, April 29, 2011

The Syrian rge suppress the protests with a new massacre

At least 24 people have died today in Syria on a new day of protests against the regime of Bashar Assad, although some humanitarian organizations such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights denounced the death toll could be even double. The NGO says that the dead are 48, including 13 in the village of Rast, near Homs (central Mexico).

Protests have played in cities throughout Spain Syria, including Damascus, and the violent response of the system has earned him a conviction of the Human Rights Council United Nations, as well as sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union. In the southern town of Dera, considered the heart of the Syrian revolt, killing at least 15 protesters suffered gunshot wounds, according to a hospital medical Tafas.

38 others, according to the agency, have entered the hospital with injuries. At the count of deaths would have to join nine others in Homs, as France Presse has told an opposition activist in that city in the Midwest. And made the alleged Syrian activists Facebook groups Sham and The revolution against Bashar Assad.

According to these two opposing networks, at least four people have died on the bridge of Saida as they tried to transfer the fence around Deraa. Four days of violence in the southern city of Syria has spent four days in attacks by security forces. In that period, at least 83 people have died under human rights activist to Jahamani Tamer, excluding today's victims.

According to this well-known lawyer in several morgues Deraa collect the corpses, including women and children. "We have counted 83 bodies, many stored in the freezers. Many of the bullets hit them in the head or chest, indicating that the shots were fired by snipers," he told the Jahamani to.

The closure of the Syrian Government has meant that, during the protests, activists have a strong influence on the information that reaches the international media, which is not allowed to enter. Thousands of Syrians have responded to the call of the Muslim Brotherhood and have called on the country roads out of El Asad, despite the deployment of security forces and the harsh repression of protests in recent weeks, he had caused until now few 500 dead.

Deraa, as usual, has the highest number of casualties, also on the police side, according to the reports of the regime. A report by the state agency Sana, collected in turn by France Presse, said that four soldiers had died in that city and two others have been kidnapped by opponents. Large protest in the capital further north, in Damascus, about 10,000 people, according to agency calculations based on reports of protestors have marched through the streets against the government in what would be the largest demonstration in the Syrian capital since the start of the revolt six weeks ago.

Progress also has been approached for the first time the heart of the city, which has begun in the old quarter of Measure and has been spreading around until the security forces have managed to disperse them with tear gas . Vehicles with machine guns and Republican guards in combat fatigues patrolling the ring road to Damascus.

"The people want the fall of the regime!" Demonstrators shouted in Saqba neighborhood in the capital, according to a witness quoted. Call of the Muslim Brotherhood have been reported protests in cities such as Homs and Hama (central Mexico), Banias (Mediterranean coast) and Qamishly (this).

Witnesses also reported gunfire in the coastal town of Latakia. Meanwhile, the repression in Deraa, several buses were headed to nearby towns to try to converge at different speeds. "There are snipers on rooftops fired at anything that moves. They are preventing people from going to the streets," Abu Mohammad has told the network Al Jazeera.

The Muslim Brotherhood called yesterday for the first time to the citizens them to take to the streets today to demand greater freedoms, while the government warned the population about the consequences of doing so. "The laws in force in Syria will be applied to serve the security and stability of the country", had warned a spokesman of the Executive.

The Islamist group banned in Syria and prime targets for repression of the president, has encouraged citizens to demand more freedom in the streets on Friday. "Do not let the regime harass your fellow countrymen. Sing with one voice for freedom and dignity. Do not let the tyrants enslave you," reads the manifesto sent Thursday to the agency.

Approximately five hundred people have been killed by security forces in the riots, according to human rights organization Sawasiah. Tens of thousands of people attended the crowded funeral of nearly one hundred dead in the past day 22. About 200 members of the Baath Party of President El-Assad on Wednesday submitted his resignation in Deraa province by the repression of recent mergers.

The Muslim Brotherhood operates in Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Gulf countries. Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan El-Banna is the oldest fundamentalist organization and influential Arab and Muslim world. Syrian faction suffered a brutal slaughter in 1982 in the town of Hama, by the Army of Hafez al-Assad, the current president's father.

International condemnation and sanctions Human Rights Council UN emergency met in Geneva to discuss the situation in this country and has voted for a resolution. The meeting, a proposal from the U.S. and no support from any Arab country, has brought forward a text condemning the regime of Assad and prompted the opening of an international investigation into the suppression of the demonstrations.

The vote has resulted in 26 votes in favor (the U.S. and all European Union countries in the body, among others), nine against and seven abstentions. Five countries (including Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain) have been absent from the meeting. During the meeting, the Deputy High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang, denounced the brutal practices of the Syrian regime.

"Whole cities have been besieged, have been deployed tanks and bombed densely populated areas, has prevented the distribution of food, has cut off access to electricity," he described. According to data cited by Kyung, "human rights organizations have documented over 450 killings and about four times as many wounded." U.S.

has proposed a draft resolution by the Council "strongly condemns the killings, arrests and torture that have been hundreds of peaceful demonstrators by the Syrian government" and calls for "the urgent dispatch of an international commission of inquiry independent "in order to investigate" alleged violations of International Human Rights in Syria.

The Security Council of the UN was unable yesterday to approve a resolution condemning anti-Syrian government supported by the EU countries and the U.S., a country that today imposed new sanctions against the Assad family and against espionage services that country. For his part, Pierre Vimont, general secretary of the diplomatic corps of the European Union has stated that the EU is close to reaching a consensus for action against the Syrian government, including the possibility of sanctions.

According to diplomatic sources, ls Twenty ambassadors meeting in Brussels have agreed to an embargo of weapons to Syria, among other sanctions to be detailed in the coming days.

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