hurricanemaxi
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 Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:45 am Post subject: Syrian Forces Kill 32 Demonstrators as UN’s Ban Urges Assad |
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Syrian forces have killed at least 32 protesters throughout the country since yesterday as United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “enough is enough.”
At least 24 people were killed today by security agents in the suburbs of the central city of Homs, the west central governorate of Hama, the northern province of Idlib, the eastern town of Deir al-Zour, the capital, Damascus, and the southern area of Daraa, where the uprising against President Bashar al- Assad began in mid-March, Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria and Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, said by telephone.
“For six months, we have seen escalating violence and repression,” Ban told reporters at the UN in New York yesterday. “The international community has repeatedly appealed to President Assad to stop, most recently the foreign ministers of the Arab League. He must now listen to such urgent calls.”
This year’s crackdown on dissent has left more than 3,600 civilians dead, according to Qurabi. About 30,000 have been detained and 13,000 of them are still being held, according to estimates from Qurabi and Merhi.
At least eight people died yesterday in Hama, Idlib, Deir al-Zour, the suburbs of Damascus and in Daraa. State media said one member of Syria’s security forces was killed and another four were injured in Basr al Harir, on the outskirts of Daraa, when they came under fire today from “armed groups, including gunfire from the minarets of mosques.”
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