Syria, at least 67 dead in Beirut HamaManifestazioni

A "veritable carnage." It 's the description of an eyewitness of the fighting today in the city of Hama, Syria, where at least 67 people have died. "I was to show, we would have been over 10 thousand - he said - there they shot him with great intensity. To kill. Kalashnikovs and machine guns were heavy, at least by the din of gunfire.

" The city hospital is crowded with wounded, "hundreds" according to witnesses, among the protesters against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. An event that already has a precedent in the history of the country. In 1982 the then president, Hafiz al-Assad - the father of - bombed the Syrian city for weeks.

Syria, Middle East and the inaction Western

Faced with the escalation of repression in Syria, it poses the same question that has arisen for Egypt raised against Hosni Mubarak and Libya dispute between Gaddafi and the rebels. That is: to support the rebellion? Up to that point? When it comes to this question, in general, it is too late. It means that part of the population subjected to a regime has exceeded the threshold of fear: not enough snipers firing from rooftops, or the tanks sent to Dera, southern Syria, to stop the protest.