Rights Group: At Least 109 Killed Thursday in and around Hama
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
At least 109 people were killed on Thursday in and around the Syrian flashpoint protest city of Hama, CNN quoted a global activist group as saying.
"The brutality continues in Hama on the fourth day of Ramadan. Communication with the city and surrounding area is very difficult as the electricity supply has been cut off," the Avaaz non-governmental organization said.
"However, Avaaz has been in touch with a medical source who confirms that 109 people have been killed since the early hours of this morning. Avaaz has been told that scores more have been injured and bodies are lying in the streets as ambulances and private vehicles are unable to get through."
Citing the medical source, Avaaz said the bodies transported to Al-Hourani Hospital had been shot at close range, mostly in the head.
“The geographic breakdown is 48 dead in the town of Hay al-Hadir, 31 in Janoub al-Manaab, and 30 in the northern part of Hama and the Hamidia area,” according to Avaaz.
Earlier on Thursday a witness told Agence France Presse by phone that at least 30 people were killed in Hama on Wednesday as security forces stormed the flashpoint protest center.
A Hama resident who managed to escape the city said Thursday that "the bodies of 30 people who were killed during shelling by the army have been buried in several public parks."
The witness, who declined to be identified for security reasons, said scores of people were being treated in hospitals for injuries and that fires broke out in several buildings.
"Tanks are deployed throughout the city, particularly in Assi Square and citadel and outside the citadel," he said about landmarks in the city center of Hama.
The source charged that "yesterday (Wednesday) the Syrian army used bombs that break up into fragments when they explode," in a likely reference to cluster bombs.
The city echoed with the intermittent sound of machine gun fire on Thursday morning, after intense shelling the previous day, the witness said, adding "snipers were positioned on the roofs of private hospitals."
"Conditions are very difficult in the city. Communications, electricity and water are cut and there are food shortages," he added.
In Deir Ezzor, meanwhile, "private hospitals and pharmacies have shut down after doctors walked out because they are afraid that the army could storm them as part of a military operation which is expected to target” the eastern city, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
04 August 2011, 22:15
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World Community needs to act quickly against this madness. Assad, as well as all ruthless dictators, needs to know that he cannot stay in power by killing innocent people.
There should be no double standards. Assad, today, is as worst as Qaddhafi and if not more.
04 August 2011, 22:18
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I don't understand how this murderer sleeps at night guilt and conscience free, he killed so far around 2000 of his own people and his father before him 20000. Ugly and evil beasts roam this cruel world we are living in.
04 August 2011, 23:14
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Assad's promise of reform is like his promise of border demarcation... only fools believe him... but his lies can't fly anymore... not even those on his payroll have any trust left in this Tyrant whose day has come, even if it may take few months as what's happening in Libya, but the end is certain and has already been engraved in rock because no people can be oppressed and abused for so long. Bon debarras! We stand in awe and respect for the Syrian people risking their lives to demand freedom and democracy. As the sun is certain to rise so the tyrants in Syria, Iran and Hizbollahstan are certain to fall, and our firm promise is that every idiot or accomplice will be brought to justice for selling Lebanon to tyrants.
04 August 2011, 23:18
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There will soon be a reversal of roles. The Iranian Basij are teaching the Syrian Mukhabarat how to brutally suppress the peaceful demonstrations. Little they know that the brave Syrian people will teach the oppressed Iranian people how to get rid of a tyrant dictator, a grand inquisitor and his mafia-like regime. Those who believe they can stop the march of history by brute force are just foolish and their heads may roll soon! As to Hizb and M8 leaders, they are today just like East European communists leaders after the fall of the USSR... just a question of time before they are brought to justice for selling Lebanon's independence and sovereignty to foreign tyrants. I hope they are watching the trials of Mubarak and Ben Ali... pretty soon they'll be in a similar cage and no one will have any pity on them because of all the damage they caused to our country and our tradition of freedom and democracy.
04 August 2011, 23:46
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The "butcher of Damascus" and his minions will not stop thir cowardly fight till the Syrian people start an armed struggle against them. The language of peaceful demonstrations does not have any effects on the criminal minds who run Syria.
05 August 2011, 00:21
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Wait, but General Aoun said this is legal.. the syrian state is defending itself from terrorists..!!!!!!
SHAME ON ALL WHO ARE PROTECTING AND COVERING UP FOR THE SYRIAN REGIME..
05 August 2011, 02:55
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This regime had assassinated Lebanon for more than 30 yrs, and you wonder why this same regime is killing innocent children and the Syrian citizens? This is what they do and how they can survive in power, I want to see when Bashar is in Court just like Mubarak.
05 August 2011, 05:21
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ithinktherel4iam...the violence committed by the syrian Baathist regime far outweighs the expecetd reaction of the Islamists who started their protests peacefully until the Assad regime decided to turn it into a violent confrontation....anyway, the end seems to be near. The syrian people will become free and Lebanon will be more stable as a result of that.
05 August 2011, 19:04
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The Criminal Stalinist Assad family regime's end is very near. The Free Syrian People have spoken and stood up to the criminal Tyrant and his Thugs and gang of murderers and their rotten corrupt to the bone associates in Lebanon. Dictators the likes of the criminal Syrian and Iranian Genocidal regimes will face Justce by their own people they have killed and raped for such a long time. Anyone entity who is found guilty or covering up the criminal acts of this Dictator and his hencmen (namely Maher El Assad (leading the current Death Squads and unfolding Genocide), Bushra El Assad, Bahjat Suleiman, Rami Makhlouf, Hassan Nasrallah and his criminal Iranian gang Hezbollah (Baseej), ..and the rest of the other dead enders (literarly). The Free Syrian People will prevail but need to be careful of Fanatics who are in fact supported and manipulated by the regime and are its tools. A Democratic tolerant and Pluralistic free Syria at Peace is the only way that would lead to salvation and growth.
19 August 2011, 21:33
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد سيد الخلق أجمعين
وبعد
تعلن عشيرة العكيدات في حلب وريفها أنها قلبا وقالبا مع ثورة الشعب السوري الحر,وأنها تقف إلى جانب الشعب السوري الحر لتحقيق مطالبه المشروعة,كما تعلن عشيرة العكيدات في حلب وريفها إنها تتبرأ من كل من يوالي السفاح بشارالاسد أمثال من يدعون أنهم يمثلونهم ويذهبون إلى تجمعات يدعو لها عملاء النظام و(على رأسهم المدعو محمد يونس عكيدي )وأنها من أفعالهم براء وأنهم لا
يمثلون سوى أنفسهم.
كما تحيي نضال الثوار السوريين وتترحم على جميع شهدائنا الأبرار.
والله ولي التوفيق
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