The Syrian army has resumed this morning's bombings and attacks in the city of Dera, the epicenter of the democratic protests from just over one month challenge to the regime of Bashar Assad. As reported by the Qatari Al-Jazeera network, the security forces are shooting and have used heavy artillery bombardment of the old neighborhoods of the city from early morning. A witness quoted by the channel said in a telephone conversation that the security forces broke into several houses at dawn. Reported that is attacking with tanks and artillery indiscriminately houses, sequels and mosques and the city lacks electricity, water, communications and food.
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addition, new personnel have joined the already deployed in the city. The hardest hit area being the closest to the Omari mosque, as have the witnesses named by Al Jazeera that say they have seen entering the city to 20 tanks this morning and although no confirmation of casualties, many of them are being treated by the residents in their homes because access to hospitals is impossible. Deraa The assault is being led by the Fourth Division, led by the president's brother, Maher Assad.
displaced soldiers to drown the uprising have been reinforced this morning after yesterday's incidents, when the army suppressed with extreme violence on demonstrators who tried to break the military blockade of the city, street planting corpses. These military vehicles are attached to those who arrived on Monday, when it was established blocking. Already on Friday last week the regime resorted to stifle the revolt shielded, which never stops, despite promises of reform by President Asad. Meanwhile, hundreds of Syrians fleeing the country via the nearby borders of Jordan and Lebanon. On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain English recommended to all who are in Syria and whose stay in the country is not necessary to consider leaving it, by commercial means. The department heads Trinidad Jiménez has no plans as yet no plan of evacuation. About English thousand are in Syria, mostly in Damascus and lesser As in Deraa, Homs and Latakia in the coastal cities where riots are becoming more intense, according to foreign sources. Friday
violence yesterday, a new Anger Friday, tens of thousands of Syrians turned to defy the regime and seek freedom. The bodies continued to pile up in the southern city of Dera. At least 15, witnesses said, although other sources speak of 24, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights raised to 62 the number killed in the crackdown on the protests around the country, reports France Presse. There were protests in dozens of cities, including for the first time, Damascus. The government accused
bands again encourage armed Islamist uprising and announced that "terrorist groups" had killed four soldiers and three policemen in Deraa and Homs, and two other soldiers had been kidnapped. Provided no proof. The Government also noted that the fact that the largest demonstrations were held on Friday outside mosques was a clear sign of inspiration Islamist revolt. In fact, it only indicated that the mosque was the only place where people could gather, since, despite the theoretical lift the state of emergency, the police were charging at any public meeting. Bashar al-Asad faced
the day displaying their most menacing. In Damascus hung banners with the following: "We urge fellow citizens to stay in their homes for their own safety." That was the message also repeated television. The warning was reinforced by a show of force: from dawn, tanks and armored vehicles were parked on the main avenues. Despite this and despite the heavy rain, several hundred people rallied briefly in the center of the capital until they were dispersed with gunfire and tear gas. Incident was a relatively marginal compared to the violence that shook Homs and Banias or the state of war that existed in Deraa, but showed Damascus, so far outside of the revolt, was susceptible to infection. Machine guns in Deraa
Testimonies of Deraa were dramatic. Activists and spokespersons for humanitarian organizations reported that the army opened fire with machine guns on a march that was trying to break the military blockade imposed on the city, causing at least 15 fatalities. A doctor at Tafas, 12 miles Deraa, said his hospital had received 15 bodies filled with bullets and 38 wounded.
Several people managed to cross the Jordanian border, three miles Deraa, explained that the city remained under a state of terror, with soldiers of the Fourth Armored Division (led by Maher al-Assad, brother of the president) and armed gangs hired by the firing from the rooftop system and raiding homes. The same witness said some corpses rotted last Friday on the streets because it was impossible to recover.
This information could not be verified, given the ban on reporting activities in the country. The television network Al Jazeera, which until now remained a team with local journalists inside the country, had to leave Syria after suffering an assault on its offices in Damascus and receiving threats. Loss of fear
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Asad in Homs and Hama in central China, in the port of Banias, in the eastern town of Kamishli, located in the Kurdish area of \u200b\u200binfluence and in Harasta, near Damascus, demonstrations took place more or less numerous, though by no means massive, with cries of "goodbye to the Asad, "" God, Syria and freedom "and" we have lost the fear. "
At least 50 members of the ruling party in Syria, Baath Party, announced his resignation during an antigovernment demonstration in Rastan, in the west about 20 miles north of the town of Homs, as reported by Human Rights activist.
The loss of fear by the population as the biggest threat to a regime in which over decades no one dared to talk politics in public, and the name of Bashar al-Assad used to decide, as before that of his father, Hafez al-Assad, in a confidential whisper. If the brutal display of force and cruelty in Deraa had not managed to inspire terror in opponents, the crisis seemed destined to follow.
So far the protests were staged by young people in provinces belonging to the poorer classes, especially hard hit by the economic crisis. Yesterday, the Muslim Brotherhood massacred in 1982 and exiled survivors, encouraged all people to join the protests. Urban professional classes and religious minorities remained expectant, by all indications, and fearing that the fall of the Assad lead to the establishment of an Islamic regime dominated by the Sunni majority. EU Sanctions
Hours after Barack Obama President signed an executive order imposing new sanctions on the Syrian regime, the diplomacy of the European Union announced an embargo on arms sales to Damascus and riot control agents and their intention to take additional penalties later. EU freezes, meanwhile, plans to establish an Association Agreement with Syria. The Human Rights Council UN, Washington and the European representatives moved in unison and got the sentence Damascus and the UN to investigate the death of civilians in Syria in recent weeks.
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