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MICHAEL JANSEN
SYRIAN PROTESTERS braved troops and tanks yesterday to return to the streets to demand the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Dr Assad had “lost his legitimacy to govern”.
The occupation of Hama on Thursday and the shelling of some neighbourhoods at dawn did not prevent anti-regime protesters from marching there, although fewer took part than on previous Fridays.
There were also protests in the central Midan district of the capital, Damascus, as well as in Homs, Qamishli in the northeast, Deraa in the southwest and the oil hub of Deir al-Zor in the east near the Iraqi border. Security forces were said to have opened fire, killing 10.
Rami Nakhle, a Beirut-based Syrian activist, said: “Because of the crackdown in Hama, people all over went out into the streets in solidarity. This is what happens when the government tries to stop us.”
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