In totaal 1,2 miljoen werd er berichtquote:Op vrijdag 22 juli 2011 17:01 schreef Frikandelbroodje het volgende:
Enorme rallies in Hama en Deir ez Zor in het oosten. Volgens activisten is er in Deir ez Zor 400k op straat. Over Hama kan ik niks vinden maar de video spreekt voor zich.
22 7 Hama أوغاريت حماة مشهد رائع من أعلى لتشكيل العلم السوري في المتظاهرين ساحة العاصي , جمعة أحفاد خالد ج3
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quote:Israel president Shimon Peres calls on Syria's Bashar al-Assad to resign
In news conference for Arab media, Peres voices respect for Syrian demonstrators 'fighting for peace'
The president of Israel called on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to resign in a message directed towards to the Arab world in his first news conference for Arab media.
Shimon Peres also voiced respect for Syrian demonstrators, who he said "are fighting for peace and who want to live like human beings".
On the peace process, Peres said Israel was "closer than ever" to peace with the Palestinians and insisted gaps between the two sides could be bridged by September, when Palestinians say they will seek a vote on statehood at the UN.
Peace talks have stalled since 2008 over issues such as borders, Palestinian refugees and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Peres has hosted Arab journalists before, but Tuesday's event was his first official news conference aimed at many Arabic outlets.
quote:Syrian troops storm eastern city; at least 1 dead
Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say Syrian troops are storming an eastern city and barraging neighborhoods with heavy machine gun fire.
An activist in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour says the attack on his hometown began Saturday afternoon and that one person was shot dead in a nearby village.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says reinforcements consisting of about 60 vehicles reached Deir el-Zour after noon.
Abdul-Rahman gave a higher death toll, saying troops shot dead three people in the nearby village of Tibni when they tried to stop advancing troops by throwing stones.
Activists say the crackdown on protesters seeking President Bashar Assad's ouster has killed more than 1,600 civilians since mid-March.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops stormed a suburb of the capital Damascus and a town near the Iraqi border, killing at least five people in the latest raids as the government intensifies its crackdown on protesters ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, activists said Saturday.
Activists expect anti-government demonstrations to escalate during Ramadan, which begins early next week. The raids by security forces appear to be an attempt by President Bashar Assad's regime to prevent wide-scale demonstrations when Muslims being the month of fasting from dawn to dusk.
Authorities have waged a brutal crackdown that activists say has killed more than 1,600 civilians since the protests against the Assad family's 40-year-old rule began in mid-March.
The government has sought to discredit those behind the protests by saying they are terrorists and foreign extremists, rather than true reform-seekers.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four people were killed during a raid on the Damascus suburb of Kiswah Friday night. It also said that one person was killed when troops entered the eastern border town of al-Boukamal near Iraq's border.
The observatory said the deaths in Kiswah and al-Boukamal raised Friday's death toll to 12.
Mohammed Abdullah, a spokesman for the Local Coordination Committees, which track the protests in Syria, said at least six people were killed in the Kiswah raid. He said at least 22 were killed Friday.
Ammar Qurabi, who heads the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, said 19 people were killed on Friday, including three in Kiswah and two in al-Boukamal.
It was not clear why the numbers were different but each group is known to have its own sources throughout Syria.
Tens of thousands of protesters calling for the ouster of Assad's regime took to the streets throughout Syria Friday, urging fellow citizens who have remained on the sidelines to join them.
The observatory said Saturday that 1,888 people have been killed since the uprising began, including 1,519 civilians. It said the rest were members of the military and security forces.
The observatory is known to be more conservative about the numbers of people killed. Other groups such as Qurabi's NOHRS and the LCC put the death toll among civilian well above 1,600.
The uprising has been the most serious threat to the 40-year ruling dynasty of the Assad family.
Assad, who inherited power in 2000 after the death of his father, President Hafez Assad, has made a series of overtures to try to ease the growing outrage. He lifted the decades-old emergency laws that gave the regime a free hand to arrest people without charge, granted Syrian nationality to thousands of Kurds — a long-ostracized minority — and issued several pardons
quote:A Syrian army colonel said that he has defected with "hundreds" of soldiers and warned the regime against launching a crackdown on the eastern oil hub of Deir ez-Zor. The man, identifying himself as Colonel Riad al-Asaad, said in a telephone call to AFP news agency in Nicosia that he was speaking from inside Syria "near the Turkish border".
"I am the commander of the Syrian Free Army," he said. "We are hundreds," he added of the number of troops under his command. The claim could not be independently verified. But the caller warned the Syrian regime against carrying out any security operations in Deir ez-Zor, where activists said a massive military convoy, including tanks, deployed on Saturday.
"I warn the Syrian authorities that I will send my troops to fight with the (regular) army if they do not stop the operations in Deir ez-Zor," Al-Asaad said.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/syriaquote:Abdullah Al-Furati, a member of Syria's local co-ordinating committees from Deir ez-Zor, told Al Jazeera that several soldiers joined demonstrators to protect them from security forces that have been trying to storm Joura district in Deir ez-Zor province.
Security forces have shelled Qisour district in Deir ez-Zor damaging the minaret of the Khaldid Bin al-Walid mosque. The security forces have been trying to enter the area but residents have fought them off, Al-Furat said.
Je hebt NATO niet nodig voor een burgeroorlog.quote:Op zaterdag 30 juli 2011 19:15 schreef Monidique het volgende:
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Met alle respect hoor maar Iran schiet niet met tanks op burgers. De Pasdaran is zo goed georganiseerd dat ze demonstraties in de kiem kunnen smoren. Bovendien kiezen veel Iranirs eieren voor hun geld.quote:Op zaterdag 16 juli 2011 12:53 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ik lees over honderdduizenden mensen op de been, zie video's met gigantisch veel mensen. Filmpjes waarin mensen blijven demonstreren, ook al wordt er zwaar geschoten. Die geest, die krijg je absoluut niet meer in de fles. Dit regime is ten dode opgeschreven.
Frappant is dan weer dat er een klein moment was in Iran dat zulke demonstraties er ook waren, maar die zijn effectief neergeslagen uiteindelijk. De vraag die ik dan stel, is: waarom daar wel en hier niet? Wat zou dat verschil zijn?
http://www.guardian.co.uk(...)a-middle-east-unrestquote:3.11pm: Hours before the Baggara tribe leader, Sheikh Nawaf al-Bashir, was arrested (see 3.01pm), he told Reuters he was striving to stop armed resistance to a military assault by the Syrian army on the provincial capital of Deir Ezzor and to convince inhabitants to stick to peaceful methods, despite killings by security forces, the news agency reports.
Secret police agents arrested Bashir - who commands the loyalty of an estimated 1.2 million Baggara- in Ein Qirsh district of Damascus on Saturday afternoon, they said.
3.01pm: Sheikh Nawaf al-Bashir, the leader of the main Baggara tribe in the rebellious province of Deir Ezzor has been arrested by Syrian forces, opposition sources have told Reuters.
Bashir was a key supporter of the so-called Damascus Declaration which opposition leaders issued in 2005 to press for reform. He says he has been interrogated by the security services more than 75 times.
Iyad El-Baghdadi, on Twitter, says that another member of the Baqqara tribe, speaking on al-Jazeera Arabic, warned the government of an armed response if Bashir is not released by 5pm (3pm BST - i.e. it has just passed).
ROFL. Weet je wel waar je over praat? Damascus telt 4 miljoen inwoners, die paar duizend demonstranten zijn niks. Dream on met je daar zijn we nu...quote:Op zondag 31 juli 2011 11:53 schreef Monidique het volgende:
het waren llemaal demonstrties in kleinere steden. men zei, pas als het inDamascus groeit, dan is er wat gaande. Wel, daar zijn we nu.
quote:'Syrische tanks nemen Hama weer onder vuur'
Syrische tanks beschieten vanavond 'lukraak' woonwijken van de stad Hama. Dat meldden getuigen. Zij spraken van de hevigste beschietingen sinds het leger zondag met grof geschut de aanval op de stad inzette.
'De granaten vallen elke 10 seconden', aldus een bewoner telefonisch vanuit Hama. Op de achtergrond waren het gedreun van artillerie en explosies te horen. Over eventuele slachtoffers is nog niets bekend.
Ook eerder op de dag beschoten tanks de stad. Daarbij zouden vier doden zijn gevallen. Gisteren doodde het leger in Hama circa 100 mensen.
Al vijf maanden is een opstand gaande tegen het bewind van president Bashar al-Assad. Volgens mensenrechtenactivisten heeft de strijd al aan circa 1600 burgers het leven gekost.
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