#AssadThePsychoChildKillingLiar - Syrian Forces Fire on Protesters, Killing 15, Activist Says - Businessweek

Syrian Forces Fire on Protesters, Killing 15, Activist Says - Businessweek

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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Syrian security forces fired on protesters demanding the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad in the restive central city of Homs and other parts of the country, killing at least 15 people, a human-rights activist said.

At least nine people, including two children, were killed in Homs and a 12-year-old girl died in Daraa, in the south, where the uprising against Assad started nine months ago, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said in a phone interview from London. The other five people were killed in Hama, the northern province of Idlib, the Damascus suburb of Douma and the southern village of Inkhil.

The number of dead is likely to increase because many of those wounded today aren’t likely to survive, Abdel Rahman said. Twenty-nine people were killed yesterday, most of them in Homs, Mahmoud Merei, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, said in a phone interview from Syria earlier today.

The U.S., the European Union and the Arab League are increasing economic and political pressure on Assad to end the nine-month crackdown, which risks tipping Syria into a civil war as soldiers defect and take up arms against the government. [ read more at link ]