Friday, May 6, 2011

Syrian army arrested 300 civilians in a neighborhood of Damascus

The Syrian army began to withdraw from the town of Dera, the birthplace of the protest against the regime of Bashar Al Assad, but security forces continue with the campaign of arrests, especially in Saqba, a suburb of Damascus, where 300 people were arrested . Despite the siege against other cities and mass arrests, opponents of the regime of Bashar al-Assad called for new protests today.

In Deraa, according to journalists, 350 soldiers on board some 20 trucks followed by many other transport vehicles carrying troops, "posters" of President Assad, "had left town." We began our exit after completing our mission " general said Haddad, director of the Political Department of the Army, and said: "The Army will have completely withdrawn from Deraa before the end of the day." "We have not faced demonstrators, pursuing terrorist groups hiding in various parts.

As army has ever faced the protesters, we've never used heavy weapons, except automatic weapons. " The military showed buildings under construction at the entrance to the city where he claimed snipers hid, which pitted the army shot the first day of the siege operation Deraa, 25 April. In this operation, 25 soldiers were killed and 177 wounded.

The unprecedented protest movement against the regime began in mid-March Deraa. The Syrian army had claimed that his intervention was aimed Deraa expel "extremist terrorist groups in response to calls for relief launched by the people." More than two thousand members of the security services and army participated in the arrests.

Seven people were killed in Saqba from mid-March.

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