Demonstrators Vow to Bring Down Regime as Syrian Forces Kill 46
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Security forces in Syria shot dead at least 46 people in operations across the country on Friday, the Syrian Revolution General Commission said.
In the central city of Homs, two demonstrators were shot dead by security forces when several thousand people gathered to protest, activists said.
One person was shot dead by security forces in the Nahr Aisha quarter of Damascus, and two in Douma, near the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
And 10 people were killed in Hama city, nearby Hilfaya and villages in the northwest of the country, the Britain-based group told Agence France Presse.
The Observatory also reported the discovery of 15 bodies in various cities, saying most had been killed in the past 24 hours.
State television said one member of the security forces was killed and another four were wounded at Basr al-Harir in southern Daraa province during an attack by "armed groups."
In the city of Hama itself, security agents "surrounded the Saad bin Abi Waqas mosque" anticipating a protest after Friday prayers, activists reported.
In July, Hama saw protests by hundreds of thousands of people calling for the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, but the rallies were put down by security forces using deadly violence.
Citing activists on the ground, the Observatory also reported several tanks and troop transports bearing down on the northwest town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province.
Elsewhere, communications were still cut on Friday in Zabadani some 50 kilometers northwest of Damascus, where one man has been reported killed and 153 people arrested since Tuesday.
Opposition protesters had called for more rallies on Friday, the Muslim day of weekly prayer when demonstrations tend to be the heaviest, undaunted by the crackdown the United Nations says has killed more than 2,600 people.
The rallies were staged under the slogan "we advance toward the fall of the regime."
"Six months. More than ever determined to (continue) the March 15 uprising," activists wrote on Facebook page The Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the main engines of the revolt.
The regime blames the violence on “armed terrorist gangs.”
16 September 2011, 15:18
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They will have to do it alone. The world has decided to Let Syria bleed. Despite the advice of the now deceased Mr. Ghiyath Matar, the "Little Gandi" that the Syrian protest remain non-violent, this will not work the desired result.
By pursuing a course of non-violence, the Democracy movement in Syria has won credibility internationally. It has taken on Syrian ownership of the process and therefore of the results. This is homegrown.
But at the end of the day, the Assad Regime rules by brute force and violence. It will not ultimately be overcome except by a greater show of brute force and violence from the Democracy Movement. America did not overcome British rule and occupation by non-violence. We won on the field of battle. So too for the Libyians and unless the Syrian blood be shed in vain, so too, the Syrian people will have to resort to force to remove the Assad Regime.
France will help. The US will not. Israel wants to keep Assad in power and so . . .
16 September 2011, 15:43
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Demonstrators Vow to Bring Down Regime.......... when???? when will this happen we've been hearing this sentence from everyone for more than 6 months now lol hehehehehehe
16 September 2011, 16:25
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templar it's not funny u faggit people are dying for freedom in Syria...
16 September 2011, 17:32
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And the Massacres continue, Syria will never be the same no matter what the outcome is
16 September 2011, 17:37
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Based on how things are progressing and the thrust of those seeking regime change (especially non-Syrian foreign nations), they will definitely bring down the regime in 2084, God willing.
16 September 2011, 18:47
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Beiruti, are you sure that violence is the way forward? Are you sure that a Lybian scenario would apply and, more importantly, the West would intervene? Russia would allow it? Are you sure that pushing for civil war in Syria would be beneficial for the Syrians, or for the Lebanese? Why there is no credible coordination among the opposition yet? Who are "the opposition", what do they want? I thank anybody for his-her honest contribution. Please, do not look at Syria through 8 march-14 march glasses.
16 September 2011, 18:52
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bashar is fighting the deficit in his regime by pegging the # of"terrorists" killed to inflation.
16 September 2011, 19:33
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From the picture, 16/9/2001
We have some highly intelligent "protesters" here.
17 September 2011, 00:35
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@danton. As a neutral observer of events in Syria I have made my post. The Syrians were not incited by outside forces to rise up against the Assad Regime. They did this on their own. They want a change in a government that has put into their constitution that only the Syrian Baath can be president and the Assad Family owns the Syrian Baath.
This is the Syrian people's fight. They are dying for it. So without looking through M14 or M8 "eyes", all I'm saying is that they are dying for nothing, no change unless they beat Assad at his game. Be more brutal than is he. Otherwise, he will mow them all down.
The international community is giving a green light to all of this. Mainly because the US still leads it and Israel leads the US around. Israel wants to keep Assad in light of events in Egypt, so indirectly this is an Israeli green light to Assad to be as brutal as necessary to hold on.
Its why I say, the Syrian people are on their own. Cast Adrift
17 September 2011, 01:44
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Murad, right on the money! My theory is that this picture is from the same collection as all the other pictures and video clips pertaining to what "supposedly" is going in Syria but are of troubles that definitely happened elsewhere and in a bygone era. But the hopeful are still waiting. Even cheikh Imbecile is still counting that he will arrive in Lebanon through Damascus. WE, TOO, ARE COUNTING ON THAT CAUSE WE MISS THE LAME STUTTERING SPEECHES OF CHEIKH IMBECILE.
17 September 2011, 03:30
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What happened to Turkeys 15 days warning to Assad? Where are the Arabs?
17 September 2011, 05:34
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The same scum celebrating the death of Syrian on this site, are the sons of the scum that have been killing Lebanese for generations. Your time will come.
17 September 2011, 05:37
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The Syrian people are tasting what the Lebanese have endured over 30 years at the hands of the same butchers. But this will be the way of the Arab world if no changes happen in people's mentality. If Arabs keep going back to Salafis and Faqihi's and the like, while the rest of the world is going forward they will keep dying at the hand of tyrants. Iran discovered the same thing and when they protested the little tyrant slaughtered them. Wake up young people and start living for your countries and stop dying for the tyrants.
17 September 2011, 12:47
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The West/Turkey will take sides to avert the civil war, and yes the Syrian crisis is starting to take Libyan turns only at a much slower pace: it is a matter of time and the Arab league will officialy condemn the Syrian regime. The Arab L is not supporting the revolution for love of democracy but rather to fend off the rising Arab anger in the streets of the gulf states itself among other reasons. Erdogan's remark about the smilarity between Libya and Syria and his ascending condemnation of Assad are not in vain, this is a PM not a reporter; However, Turkey can not act without a clear cut Arab mandate. The regime in Syria can not resist serious Turkish economic and military pressures, it will crumble faster than onyone thinks. Just remember how fast Tripoli fell and that Assad does not have a fraction of qadafe's money. When the US/EU says "step down" that means serious business and official policy. Assad can not come back from this, the folks on here who think he can are idiots.
