Crowds marched against President Bashar Assad after Friday prayers in Homs, Syria. At least 11 were shot dead by security forces in the city. At least 18 people were killed across the country.
(Reuters)
Syrian protesters call on Arab League to take action
Want country suspended amid big crackdown
Crowds marched against President Bashar Assad after Friday prayers in Homs, Syria. At least 11 were shot dead by security forces in the city. At least 18 people were killed across the country.
(Reuters)
Thousands of Syrians took to the streets of their country yesterday, calling on the Arab League to suspend the Syria government’s membership because of the armed crackdown on the eight-month-old political uprising, which they say has violated an initiative brokered by the league to end the violence. In another grim day in what has become one of the bloodiest periods of the uprising, rights activists said that at least 18 people, including a defecting soldier, were shot dead by security forces across Syria yesterday, 11 of them in the restive city of Homs.
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