Syria threatens to execute 'terrorists' under new law
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[QUOTE](CNN) -- Syria will execute anyone who participates in terrorist acts or distributes weapons, state television announced Tuesday, in the latest escalation against an uprising the United Nations estimates has claimed about 5,000 lives since March.
The announcement comes as two opposition groups claimed that more than 100 people were killed Monday, which would be the single deadliest known day of the protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that dozens of Syrian army defectors were gunned down as they tried to flee their posts in Idlib.
"On Monday there were 60 to 70 army deserters killed while they were trying to run away from their military positions," said the London-based group's Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said another 40 civilians were killed the same day "across Syria during house-to-house raids, arrests, and clashes between army defectors and the Syrian army."
"Monday may have been a day with the highest death toll in Syria, between 100 and 110 killed in total," he said.
Another opposition group, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, said 48 civilians were killed in eight separate incidents Monday.
The Syrian government did not immediately respond to the claim. CNN could not independently verify the allegations because Syria restricts the activity of journalists in the country.
The Syrian government maintains that it is cracking down on armed terrorists who attack security forces and civilians.
A new law published Tuesday specifies that anyone who distributes weapons for the purpose of committing terrorist acts will get the death penalty, according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
It also mandates a life sentence of hard labor for weapons smugglers who intend to traffic them for terrorist acts.
Monday's reported deaths came the same day that Syria signed an Arab League proposal aimed at ending the violence.
The Arab League expelled Syria over its crackdown.
The signing came just days after the Cairo-based group of Arab nations warned it could ask the U.N. Security Council to intervene in the restive country.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem announced Monday that Damascus had signed the deal, insisting: "We want a political solution. I do not want the killings to go on."
Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun was not impressed by the signing of the agreement.
"The Syrian regime is playing games and wants to buy time. We are quite surprised that the Arab League is allowing this to take place," the head of the Syrian National
Council said Monday in comments on Orient TV from Tunisia.
Separately, Ghalioun urged the international community to enforce a buffer zone to protect civilians.
Council members meeting in Tunisia declined to say whether they would support the use of foreign military force to enforce such a zone, but stressed their belief that international intervention is necessary.
"This regime has proven time and time again that it is a regime built on lies and force," Ghalioun told CNN. "We need a safety zone to protect and prevent efforts by the regime to transform the crisis into a civil conflict."
Five Arab League ministers drafted a resolution Saturday calling for the end of violence and approving an observer mission in Syria.
World powers have denounced the Syrian government's activity, saying they are are looking for ways to rein in violence and urgently contain the threat of civil war, reflected in the emergence of the armed defector force.[/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/20/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_bn4[/url]
This sure seems like a good idea, thank goodness that they're protecting their proud country!
[quote]"On Monday there were 60 to 70 army deserters killed while they were trying to run away from their military positions," said the London-based group's Rami Abdel Rahman.[/quote]
Fuckin ell
I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"[/QUOTE]
Hurr because all terrorists = instantly arabs and muslims
No seriously that's what I see in the above persons post, what is wrong with that?
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Syrian_uprising"]
Have you been living under a rock this whole time[/URL]?
[QUOTE=VaSTinY;33812441]Hurr because all terrorists = instantly arabs and muslims[/QUOTE]
But that's all Syria is full of :v:
I'm pretty sure fruxodaily was joking, guys.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"[/QUOTE]I agree completely all the congressmen should be rounded up and jailed.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"[/QUOTE]
Can't tell if you're fucking stupid or trolling.
Please educate yourself.
terrponsists must be kilL! = every person under 17 who has watched tabloid media bullshit
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terrorists shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing humans when they insist in ruining other peoples lives.[/QUOTE]
fix'd
Don't copy us Syria :(
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33812401]I'm okay with this, Terriost shouldn't be classified as a normal living breathing human when they insist in ruining other peoples lives for their so called "god"[/QUOTE]
What the fuck are you talking about do you even know anything about anything oh my god
Woo lets all take hints from america and remove everyones civil liberties at the drop of a hat
Some people can't take a fucking joke
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;33813326]Some people can't take a fucking joke[/QUOTE]
It was a badly executed joke.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;33812633]terrponsists must be kilL! = every person under 17 who has watched tabloid media bullshit[/QUOTE]
If the person REALLY IS a terrorist then I wouldn't exactly object to it. The problem is that it's too subjective what a government considers a "terrorist"
Syrian NDAA?
Defining terrorists as people protesting calling for change then. And we continue to do jack shit to help
[QUOTE=Stockers678;33814093]Defining terrorists as people protesting calling for change then. And we continue to do jack shit to help[/QUOTE]
People tend to get pissed when we help them. "Imperialist scum, we do not need your help, you will taint us with your capitalism!" Puppet state blah blah.
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;33812551]I agree completely all the congressmen should be rounded up and jailed.[/QUOTE]
Post of the decade
[QUOTE=smurfy;33815384]Post of the decade[/QUOTE]
It's only been two years into the decade :v:
[QUOTE=NecroTitan;33814000]Syrian NDAA?[/QUOTE]
I knew it. I fucking knew it. This threat gets made in an ACTUAL police state that has ACTUALLY used brutal, lethal, violent force to destroy protests and silence opposition, and it gets compared to a law in the U.S. that on paper allows the Military to detain citizens (though the wording of the bill has left that up in the air, I believe it does but many thinks it doesn't). Either way, the AMUF already authorizes the President to do what the NDAA says, and there haven't been Hummers rolling the streets grabbing people since 2001. This is a news story from an actual totalitarian state where the military has openly shot protesters, but yeah, sure, fucking go ahead, compare this to the U.S..
Edit:
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;33812551]I agree completely all the congressmen should be rounded up and jailed.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because we totally can't [B]vote them out of office in 10 months.[/B] Idiot.
[QUOTE=Spooter;33817225]I knew it. I fucking knew it. This threat gets made in an ACTUAL police state that has ACTUALLY used brutal, lethal, violent force to destroy protests and silence opposition, and it gets compared to a law in the U.S. that on paper allows the Military to detain citizens (though the wording of the bill has left that up in the air, I believe it does but many thinks it doesn't). Either way, the AMUF already authorizes the President to do what the NDAA says, and there haven't been Hummers rolling the streets grabbing people since 2001. This is a news story from an actual totalitarian state where the military has openly shot protesters, but yeah, sure, fucking go ahead, compare this to the U.S..[/QUOTE]
That's because the bill hasn't passed into law just yet :v:
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;33817351]That's because the bill hasn't passed into law just yet :v:[/QUOTE]
But as I mentioned, [I]the AMUF (Authorization of Military Force) already fucking allows the President to do that.[/I]
[QUOTE=AMUF](a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.[/QUOTE]
That law was passed in 2001 and the president has had the exact powers that you feel he's just now getting via the NDAA. All the NDAA does is codify his rights to detain. Both the White House and the Senate Sponsors have said this. So if you want to claim that Hummers aren't on the street because it hasn't been passed yet, you need to travel back in time to 2001 and be wrong then.
[QUOTE=Spooter;33817225]Yeah, because we totally can't [B]vote them out of office in 10 months.[/B] Idiot.[/QUOTE]I'm a Norwegian therefore I can't vote someone out of office , but stupid shit that happens in the states can also affect me.
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;33825783]I'm a Norwegian therefore I can't vote someone out of office , but stupid shit that happens in the states can also affect me.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention voting them out of office probably wont happen when most of your population is too stupid, too brainwashed, or too apathetic to care.
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