AT LEAST FOUR DEAD AS SYRIAN FORCES MAKES SWEEPING ARRESTS
NowLebanon
Aug 17 2011
Syrian security forces on Wednesday killed at least four people in
Edleb and Homs and made sweeping arrests, activists said.
The Britain-based-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that
in the Edleb province near the border with Turkey, security forces
shot dead a man standing on his balcony.
In Homs, a sniper shot dead a civilian in the city’s Armenian
neighborhood, while security forces conducting raids in the city
of central Syria shot dead two men and wounded three others, the
Observatory added.
It said security forces in Damascus carried out dawn raids in Roken
Eddine district, where electricity was cut off, and arrested dozens
of activists. Dozens more were detained overnight on the outskirts
of the capital.
The central committee of the ruling Baath Party, in power since
1963, meanwhile, met for the first time since protests against Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad’s regime erupted in mid-March, pro-government
daily Al-Watan said.
A key demand of the opposition movement has been the removal of Article
8 of the constitution which stipulates that the Baath party is the sole
“leader of state and society.”
Rights groups say the crackdown has killed 1,827 civilians since
mid-March, while 416 security forces have also died in what the
authorities have termed a campaign against terrorists and armed gangs.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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