Syria Forces Kill 10 Protesters during Friday Demonstrations
Syrian security forces killed 10 people on Friday when they opened fire on protesters in several cities, Rami Abdul Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP by telephone.
"Ten demonstrators were killed today," said Rahman.
The toll included seven in Dael on the outskirts of Daraa, a flashpoint town in the south, a demonstrator in Saqba on the outskirts of Damascus a demonstrator in the al-Qadam neighborhood of Damascus and another on the outskirts of Aleppo.
"There were massive demonstrations in several Syrian cities despite a significant deployment of security forces," Rahman said, including a rally in Deir al-Zour, "the largest since military operations ended there in August."
Syrians also staged demonstrations in the northwestern province of Idlib, the central region of Homs, the coastal city of Latakia, and the capital Damascus, the Observatory said.
Pro-democracy activists called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday in support of "free soldiers" -- a reference to defectors -- after 36 people, including 25 soldiers, were killed in clashes across the country on Thursday.
Over 3,000 people have been killed in the unrest in Syria since popular protests broke out in mid-March, the U.N. human rights chief said Friday, urging international action to prevent civil war in the country.
"The number of people killed since the violence started in March has now exceeded 3,000, including at least 187 children. More than 100 people have been reported killed in the last 10 days alone," said the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
The heavy death toll arose from the "sniping from rooftops and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful protestors," noted Pillay.
"The government of Syria has manifestly failed to protect its population," she said.
The international community should therefore step up to do so, urged the U.N. rights chief.
Meanwhile, 25 soldiers were among 36 people killed in violence in Syria on Thursday as the army met mounting armed resistance to its crackdown on dissent, a human rights group said.
Of the civilians killed, one died in the flashpoint central city of Homs while 10 were killed, one of them a child, in Banash, a town in Idlib province in the northwest, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
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yes little microbe,mock yourself... keep on your posts which have nothing to do with the articles which you never comment with clever arguments but just by slogans and stupidity,
keep on making us laugh, little M8 clown. don t forget your red nose!
i like your style, you ve touched the bottom and you keep digging!!!
you are stupid and you don t know it, the most dangerous type of psycopath you are...
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JabalCamel....not a single person was shot dead/injured in Wall street or any city street in America. There are no tanks marchingon civil peple in America. You need a 1000 years+ to become remotely civil as americans!!
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the filthy zionist information war department went berserk when i touched their masters
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Lice mountain: there have been no deaths in the states as a result of protests...comparing a protest about financial injustice to ones against a regime that is killing its own citizens is unfair to Syria or to anyone, frankly...I bet you also believe the deaths in the protests in Iran were also justified? What about the deaths in Bahrain were they justified? Catch my drift licey? None of those deaths are justified. Continuing, how many armed protestors do you see in those videos? Any? Hmm, I think your master nasrallah needs a youtube account!!!
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Syria forces killed 10 Salafis fanatics Sunnis terrorists . They should kill thel all . and the Lebanese army should do the same with these rats .
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The filthy Persian information war department bought jabalcamel a computer so he could project their idiocy on the internet. The Persians give hand outs to all the m'tweli or they could not live.
jabalcamel.....pay your m'tweli electric bill. I am tired of supporting your beggar society.
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@Gabby...you hit the nail onit shead. This guy has no shame, you spit on him and he will tell you it's raining!!
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@Gabby...you hit the nail onit shead. This guy has no shame, you spit on him and he will tell you it's raining!!
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lephenicien still as frustrated as before... i only see one rat here and i m adressing him this post, go back to the sewer where you and habal belong....
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where are the dangerous armed salafis in these pictures?
if you watched the news on syrian tv they only showed a wall that has received a grenade to say there were armed gangs shooting!!!!
better propaganda than that you won t find anywhere! and those M8 members to believe them...what a pity
if they were so sure of themselves that armed gangs are the root of the trouble why don t they let foreign tv s do their reports?
then they would be credible....
where was UN on occupy wall street protest.