DAMASCUS -- At least 397 people were killed in Syria on Saturday in what could be the country’s bloodiest day since the start of the uprising 21 months ago.
DAMASCUS -- At least 397 people were killed in Syria on Saturday in what could be the country’s bloodiest day since the start of the uprising 21 months ago.
Source: Ria novosti
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“By the end of Saturday the LCC managed to document 397 martyrs (including more than 20 children and 20 women),” the activist group reported on its website.
The LLC makes a daily death toll count in the Syrian conflict on its website.
The figure includes 220 people who were “field executed in Deir Balbah” outside the city of Homs after the Syrian forces regained the area, the LCC said.
According to CNN, the activist group has learned about the Deir Balbah massacre from captured soldiers of the Syrian government troops.
The Syrian government has not commented on the alleged mass executions at Deir Balbah while the Syrian state TV showed images of dead bodies and seized weapons in the city’s tunnels it claimed were being used by "terrorists.”
Between 20,000 and 37,000 Syrians, by various estimates, have been killed in the 21-month-long conflict between government forces and the opposition, which comprises groups of all stripes, from Communists and secular liberals to Islamist groups, including Al-Qaeda.
Western powers have insisted on President Bashar al-Assad’s departure before the formation of a new government of national unity while Russia insisted that the decision be left to the “Syrian people.”
Jumping the gun Bob it could be revenge by government forces it could be civilians killed by exiting rebel insurgents. Either way the conflict was started by outsiders wanting change and these rebels are not the democrats to lead this country. They use and stir up tensions introducing sectarian violence that the innocent and unsuspecting civilians will pay for decades to come. Only yesterday they behead a newly married Christian and butchered the body to feed to dogs as a sign of things to come, this after they recently encouraged a child to behead a prisoner. The future is not with the rebellion but with a orderly transition from Assad as Russia is working on.
The US and Western govts should hang their heads in shame for supporting such scum of the earth.
(Get the truth out, 31 December 2012 13:44)
Russia could have stopped this, but instead chose to support a regime that was too entrenched and not wanted by a large part of the Syrian population.
Russia has lost face. It may also lose politically and financially in the longer term because of its mistaken policy towards the people of Syria.
(Bob, 31 December 2012 13:02)
Jumping the gun Bob it could be revenge by government forces it could be civilians killed by exiting rebel insurgents. Either way the conflict was started by outsiders wanting change and these rebels are not the democrats to lead this country. They use and stir up tensions introducing sectarian violence that the innocent and unsuspecting civilians will pay for decades to come. Only yesterday they behead a newly married Christian and butchered the body to feed to dogs as a sign of things to come, this after they recently encouraged a child to behead a prisoner. The future is not with the rebellion but with a orderly transition from Assad as Russia is working on.
The US and Western govts should hang their heads in shame for supporting such scum of the earth.
(Get the truth out, 31 December 2012 13:44)
Russia could have stopped this, but instead chose to support a regime that was too entrenched and not wanted by a large part of the Syrian population.
Russia has lost face. It may also lose politically and financially in the longer term because of its mistaken policy towards the people of Syria.
(Bob, 31 December 2012 13:02)
Russia could have stopped this, but instead chose to support a regime that was too entrenched and not wanted by a large part of the Syrian population.
Russia has lost face. It may also lose politically and financially in the longer term because of its mistaken policy towards the people of Syria.
(Bob, 31 December 2012 13:02)
Jumping the gun Bob it could be revenge by government forces it could be civilians killed by exiting rebel insurgents. Either way the conflict was started by outsiders wanting change and these rebels are not the democrats to lead this country. They use and stir up tensions introducing sectarian violence that the innocent and unsuspecting civilians will pay for decades to come. Only yesterday they behead a newly married Christian and butchered the body to feed to dogs as a sign of things to come, this after they recently encouraged a child to behead a prisoner. The future is not with the rebellion but with a orderly transition from Assad as Russia is working on.
The US and Western govts should hang their heads in shame for supporting such scum of the earth.
(Get the truth out, 31 December 2012 13:44)