[quote]The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones says people are defying police requests to stay inside
Security forces in Syria have shot dead at least 12 people at funerals for anti-government protesters killed on Friday, reports say. They opened fire on mourners gathering in parts of the capital Damascus and near the flash-point southern town of Deraa, witnesses said.
At least 82 people reportedly died on Friday, the bloodiest day in some five weeks of unrest.
Two MPs and a senior Muslim cleric from Deraa have resigned in protest.
Friday's bloodshed, which came a day after President Bashar al-Assad scrapped decades of emergency rule, drew strong international condemnation.
Nearly 300 people are believed to have been killed since unrest erupted in the middle of last month.
Syria's state news agency has reported a limited number of protests in some provinces and described the violence as the work of armed criminal gangs.
With foreign journalists unable to get into Syria, accounts of casualties - carried by eyewitnesses, opposition activists and human rights groups - cannot be verified independently.
The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones in Beirut says it appears that the government has made a deliberate decision to use live ammunition, to clear the streets and to impose order.
With many people in Syria now openly calling for an end to President Assad's rule, he says the government realises its survival is at stake and it is fighting hard.[/quote]
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That's fucked up.
Stay classy, Syria.
Seriously though this is terrible.
:smith:
Okay now that is not right in the slightest, you'd think that leaders in the middle east would learn from Egypt not to fuck around with it's people.
Libya's not even done with it's bloodshed and yet another revolution racks up a body count. Let's hope this one ends with nothing less than a swift victory for the rebels and as little casualties as physically possible...anything to end crap like this.
....CIA! GO GO GO
/sarcasm
Syria and Yemen are pretty clearly going down
That's like a double 'Fuck You' to their people. Killing people then killing those who attend the funureal of the ones you killed in the first place.
you'd think lifting an emergency status would fix things
jesus christ what's wrong with the middle east these days
[QUOTE=rsa1988;29390038]Okay now that is not right in the slightest, you'd think that leaders in the middle east would learn from Egypt not to fuck around with it's people.[/QUOTE]
viva la revolution?
Christ, the entire Middle East is basically going up in flames, one area at a time. I just hope it all works out in the end, but that's just me riding the optimistic rainbow. :smith:
I just hope the entirety of the middle east solves it's shitty leadership issues and actually comes up to be a first world region for the first time ever.
[QUOTE=Vaught;29391094]Christ, the entire Middle East is basically going up in flames, one area at a time. I just hope it all works out in the end, but that's just me riding the optimistic rainbow. :smith:[/QUOTE]
This is the first time in my life I have ever rated someone optimistic.
These fucking stupid dictators keep just asking for revolutions. You can't kill protesters and expect the population to just blissfully ignore it. Especially with Egypt and Libya proving able examples.
Wasn't shooting people at a funeral something that happened in the early days of the crisis in Libya as well?
That's fucked up, beyond all measure, I support sending military asets there and hammering the Syrian power structure.
[QUOTE=bravehat;29393775]That's fucked up, beyond all measure, I support sending military asets there and hammering the Syrian power structure.[/QUOTE]
I suggest we wait a while and see where this goes.
You don't want to be too quick with invasion plans.
Not necessarily invasion, just a lot of aircraft pounding the sweet bejeezus out of anything that attacks civilians.
That includes wild animals :colbert:
it keeps HAPPENING
[QUOTE=bravehat;29394090]Not necessarily invasion, just a lot of aircraft pounding the sweet bejeezus out of anything that attacks civilians.
That includes wild animals :colbert:[/QUOTE]
Syria actually has effective anti air defenses and a real air force and a powerful military so... Nope.avi
[QUOTE=yaik9a;29396882]Syria actually has effective anti air defenses and a real air force and a powerful military so... Nope.avi[/QUOTE]
The Syrian army is weak and outdated.
[QUOTE=yaik9a;29396882]Syria actually has effective anti air defenses and a real air force and a powerful military so... Nope.avi[/QUOTE]
I'm not so sure about that. They have about 500 000 men. 200 000 active, 300 000 reserve. And they're mostly using old equipment from China and USSR.
What are those leaders thinking? Can't they see these are the kind of things that [i]cause[/i] revolutions?
[QUOTE=yaik9a;29396882]Syria actually has effective anti air defenses and a real air force and a powerful military so... Nope.avi[/QUOTE]
Yeah and Mother Theresa is Miss Gangbang 2000 right?
The Syrian air force can't hold back N.A.T.O, and I sure as shit bet that their air force can't even touch the Typhoon.
[QUOTE=bravehat;29397230]Yeah and Mother Theresa is Miss Gangbang 2000 right?
The Syrian air force can't hold back N.A.T.O, and I sure as shit bet that their air force can't even touch the Typhoon.[/QUOTE]
They still have better air defenses then Libya and are no doubt going to take down at least 1 typhoon or 5 F-16s and whole bunch of drones. And there would be no real way of stopping the Syrian government without putting soldiers on the ground.
[editline]24th April 2011[/editline]
And of course any regime change would ruin the secular system in Syria as well.
You'd think these dictators would use the amount of money they steal from their people to get a decent education
"PRESIDENT ASSAD THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS REVOLTING AGAINST US OVER OUR CRACKDOWNS, WHAT SHOULD WE DO?"
"shoot them again"
maybe this year will go in history as the year that all the retarded governments around that area of the world were fixed
that or the year that the top countries left everyone else to die
[QUOTE=Bletotum;29399208]maybe this year will go in history as the year that all the retarded governments around that area of the world were fixed
that or the year that the top countries left everyone else to die[/QUOTE]
So, we can expect revolution in USA this summer?
[QUOTE=yaik9a;29396882]Syria actually has effective anti air defenses and a real air force and a powerful military so... Nope.avi[/QUOTE]
It's not modern enough to target reaper drones.
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