Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Syrian Army kills 11 attending funeral for victims of Friday

The death toll in Saturday's demonstration for democracy in Syria has grown to 11, as reported by a human rights activist. Syrian security forces opened fire on the persons therein assembled, and the death toll is not yet final. Razan Zaitouna lawyer was who established the death toll in the cemetery of Nasra of Homs, where they buried 10 protesters killed in clashes with the Syrian army in the protests against President Bashir al-Assad on Friday.

The Syrian regime does not allow the entry of journalists into the country, making it impossible to independently verify the figures of dead and wounded. These deaths are in addition to at least 30 were recorded on Friday. That day, to prevent citizens are concentrated in the mosques before going out as it had done since the protests began in mid-March, police set up checks at the entrance of many of them.

Karim Rajeh, imam of the Sunni mosque of al-Hassan in Damascus announced it would stop delivering the Friday sermon because the security forces blocked access to the faithful. The fact that the military attacks in recent days against Deraa, Homs and Banias have a deterrent effect on the protests appears to demonstrate that the Asad is not as controlled as the situation is saying and that the Syrian crisis could last indefinitely, with possible consequences for neighboring countries.

The volume of Syrian refugees in Lebanon began to trouble the UN, which has so far installed about 5,000 people recorded in Wadi Khaled, a Syrian Lebanese village separated by a small stream easily fordable. Representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Ministry of Social Affairs in Lebanon working on a plan to deal with a possible wave of fugitives from the repression in El Asad.

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