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28 December 2011 | 02:20 | FOCUS News Agency
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Damascus. Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters marched on the centre of the embattled city of Homs to demand in person that the Arab League take action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
In scenes that defied low expectations of the visit to Syria by a League monitoring mission, protesters were filmed shouting at the delegates, even as gunfire could still be heard in the background, the Daily Telegraph reads.
"We are unarmed and dying," one screamed. "We are being slaughtered," said another.
There was no immediate reaction to the visit by the regime, but it will feel gravely humiliated by the boldness of the confrontation, with a crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 70,000 strong swaying arm-in-arm and chanting slogans on streets raked by gunfire just the day before.
It will also be a test of the regime's plans for dealing with the crisis.
Ausama Monajed, spokesman for the Syrian National Council, said it could lead to a further massacre. [ READ MORE AT LINK]
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