Saturday, August 20, 2011

New Assad bloodshed - NYPOST.com

New Assad bloodshed - NYPOST.com

clipped from article:

Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad thumbed his nose at President Obama, launching massive arrest sweeps and triggering clashes that killed at least 22 protesters yesterday -- a day after the White House demanded he quit.

But thousands of protesters in the southern province of Deraa, where the uprising began in March, defiantly marched and called for a war crimes trial of Assad.

The new bloodshed came despite Assad’s promise this week to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that military and police operations had stopped.

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