Friday, May 20, 2011

Syria, new protests killed 21 manifestantiLa EU thinks of penalties for Assad

"NATO has no intention to intervene in Syria." This was announced by the Secretary-General of the Alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, highlighting the strong condemnation of the violence in the country, but also unlike the situation with respect to the Libyan crisis. "In Libya, NATO operates under a UN mandate and receives great support from the region - he explained - neither of these conditions are met in Syria." But if the Alliance get a stop, instead of progressing the work of the EU to extend sanctions on unh'altra dozen members of the regime, after the 13 staff already sanctioned.

In this new group could include the name of President Bashar al-Assad. A formal decision will be taken on Monday at a meeting of the council of EU foreign ministers, as spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Maurizio Massari. Meanwhile the situation remains dramatic in the country. According to estimates released today in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Refugees are about 4 thousand people fleeing violence in Syria and arrived in northern Lebanon in recent weeks.

Most of them are women and children. An anonymous source of satellite television Al Jazeera reported that day by the Syrian security forces are trying to prevent citizens from crossing the border in the area of Tall Kalakh. "And 'a massacre in progress," said the witness. And even today, for the tenth consecutive Friday, thousands of people took to the streets across the country after the midday prayer.

Against the Assad regime and to demand democracy and reform. E 'of 21 deaths - including a child of 7 years - and dozens wounded Tentative Budget casualties reported by activists and denied by the Syrian state TV. For a preventive measure, the mosques of Daraa were occupied by the police.

The same security forces tried to prevent the population of Banias to attend places of worship. In five thousand have been protesting in the capital Damascus, where clashes have occurred, as in Homs, Dara and Sanamayan. For Albukamal protesters freed an unspecified number of prisoners, after having set fire to the headquarters of the local governorate.

Police later imposed a curfew in the town of Nemr, Jassem and Hara, in the south of Syria.

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