20 more people die in Syria as civil war continues: NGOs
Saturday, June 9th, 2012 7:17:01 by Hamza Jahangir
Rebels and regime troops clashed in a district of the Syrian capital as scores of protests were held across the strife-torn country and more than 20 people killed on Friday, monitors said. Clashes broke out in Kfar Sousa, a Damascus
district where anti-regime sentiment is strong, while explosions rocked the Mazzeh and al Qaeda neighbourhoods, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Protesters, meanwhile, took to the streets in flashpoints across the country, including Damascus
and the northern city of Aleppo, where regime forces used live rounds and tear gas, the NGO added.
Anti-regime activists had called for fresh protests under the slogan “Revolutionaries and traders, hand in hand until victory,” aiming to draw in the middle classes in Syria’s two largest cities to join the uprising. “Damascus
and Aleppo play a central role in the revolt now,” anti-regime activist Deeb Dimashqi (not his real name) told AFP via Skype.
People emerged from mosques to demonstrate in Kfar Zita, in Hama province of central Syria, chanting: “We don’t want peaceful (revolt). We have bullets and Kalashnikovs!””Meetings, decisions, sanctions…initiatives, and still the
Syrian people is being slaughtered,” read a hand-written poster held up by a Kfar Zita protester, according to amateur video posted on YouTube by activists. Amid the protests, violence continued across the country.
The rebel district of Khaldiyeh, in the restive city of Homs, underwent “the most violent shelling it has seen since the revolt began” in March 2011, said the Observatory, “at a rate of five shells a minute.”According to video
uploaded on YouTube by anti-regime activists, thick clouds of smoke rose above residential buildings and mosques in Khaldiyeh, where loud blasts were heard as the district, much of it deserted, was violently shelled.
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