2011年4月12日星期二
Syrian opposition Reuters says killed 200 protests-
A tank is seen in the Syrian port city of Caesarea Philippi 10 April 2011.
Credit: Reuters/HandoutBy Khaled Yacoub OweisAMMAN | Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:33 pm EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's most important human rights movement said the death toll of less than a month of protests reached 200 and calls of the Arab League, impose sanctions against the ruling hierarchy.
"Screams Syria uprising with 200 martyrs, hundreds of injured and a similar number of arrests," the Group Damascus Declaration said in a letter on Monday, the Secretary General of the Arab League.
"The regime unleashed to besiege his Forcers cities and to terrorize civilians, while demonstrators on Syria thunder with the same chant ' peaceful quiet", "added to it."
"We ask you to impose political, diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Syrian regime, the continue faithful guardian of Hafiz al-Assad's legacy...,", said the letter, referring to the iron fisted rule of President Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashar.
Bashar, overlooking never since unprecedented protests against his rule 11-year-old reacted with a mixture of power-his security forces have on the unarmed demonstrators, according to witnesses-raised and vague promises to relax on freedoms, such as replace emergency law with anti terror law prohibits.
The protests, which erupted last month before the distribution in the southern town of Deraa, called for freedom of expression and Assembly, and an end to corruption.
The authorities said armed gangs and "Intruders" were responsible for the violence and the soldiers and police have also been killed.
"President Assad has been give only promise for the last 11 years." Instead he speaks solutions such as the regime generally on an external conspiracy, "said the letter."
The Damascus Declaration called for a document signed in 2005 by prominent civic, Islamist and Liberal leader for the end of 41 Assad family rule and its replacement by a democratic system.
The document called for the lifting of the prohibitions on freedom of expression and Assembly and the abolition of emergency laws, under which Syria determines since 1963, when the ruling Baath Party took power in a coup d ' état and any opposition banned.
Most of its members have long periods of time as political prisoners, opposition RAID al-Turk, more than 17 years in solitary confinement under Hafez al-Assad spent leading figure including spent.
Fayiz Sara, a journalist, was jailed for two - and-a half years with 11 Damascus Declaration members and published in the year 2010, arrested again on Sunday, said rights activists.
"The secret police have until any outstanding figure were rounding that can get them on their hands." They call it either in the for "Interrogation"and keep it, pick it up from the street or break into their homes,"the rights defender said one."
Assad has said the protests are part of a foreign plot to sow sectarian fighting. His father used similar language when he left and killing thousands crushed Islamic challenges to his rule in the 1980s.
Syrian security forces on Monday after pro-democracy protests and killings by irregulars loyal to Assad off the coast city Banias sealed, residents said.
(Editing by Michael Roddy)
2011年4月8日星期五
Syrian forces kill 3 such as flare protests: witness - Reuters
AMMAN | Fri Apr 8, 2011 9: 13 of the EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces as protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad flared in several cities after Friday prayers at least three pro-democracy demonstrators in the southern city of Deraa killed, said witness.
Thousands demonstrated in the East of ethnic Kurds for reform despite the President this week offer simple rules that bar many Kurds citizenship, activists said.
Security men opened fire on thousands of demonstrators in Deraa, where protests broke out first last month before spreading across the country in the last three weeks. Residents of Reuters contacted said at least three people were killed.
"I saw pools of blood and three bodies in the street is picked up by relatives in the area of Mahatta," said one of the witnesses, who spoke by phone to Reuters.
"Were the snipers on rooftops." Gunfire was difficult. The injured are taken in houses. No one familiar set his relatives in a hospital under these circumstances, "he added." Many demonstrators fear that she would be arrested, if taken hospitals.
Protests broke even in the Western City of Hims, and gunfire was heard in the District of Damascus Harasta. The suburb of Duma, where the protests have held in recent days, was largely reduced from contact due to telephone lines, local activists said. Media are strongly limited in Syria.
Popular demonstrations have rocked the country for the last three weeks calling for greater freedom. Assad responded with a mixture of violence against demonstrators and gestures towards a reform to the most recent ethnic Kurds.
In the northeastern city of Qamishli, Kurdish youths chanted: "no one Syrian Kurds, not Arabs, one." "We salute the martyrs of Deraa." Demonstrations were concerns that fuel pump unrest could ethnic and religious tensions in the country according to.
Friday demonstrations, which online activists this week that "Friday of the steadfastness" mentioned, tends to see the largest protests against Assad's 11 years in power. In recent weeks security forces have fire, kill dozens opened.
In Deraa people demonstrated just last month against the detention of children, the pro-democracy graffiti inspired by the Egyptian and Tunisian riots on school walls all had.
Sunni Muslims tribes there are the wealth and makes of the minority Alawite treasures belonging to offshoot sect of Shi Shi'ite Islam, which Assad. Mobile telephone lines were cut off been or limited in the last two days, said the residents.
Protesters chanted: "The people want the overthrow of the Government," an echo of the slogans from elsewhere in the Arab world.
REFORMS "DONT GO TO THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM"
The Baath party since 1963 has a coup and execution of Assad's father until his death in the year 2000 in power tolerated no dissent and emergency law to justify used arbitrary arrests.
A central demand of the protesters is to pick up the law.
2011年4月2日星期六
Protests about Quran burn dissemination
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) - system.UInt64 deadly protests in the northern Afghanistan of a Quran burn spread the country's war-torn southern region on Saturday, with government officials of reporting at least nine civilians dead and dozens injured.
The violence struck the city of Kandahar when demonstrators on the streets to protest the flaring of Islam holiest book of a U.S. Church.
The unrest followed a demonstration on Friday in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, in which five demonstrators and seven UN employees were killed when an angry crowd of UN stormed compound is.
President Barack Obama on Saturday extended condolences to the families and loved ones of those in Mazar-e Sharif killed, but also complained about the burning of the Quran.
"The desecration of a holy text... is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," he said in a statement released by the White House. "However, is attacking and killing innocent people in reaction outrageous, and an affront to human decency and would."
Besmellah Blanford painting, Kandahar said provincial member, hundreds gathered in Kandahar City, burn the Quran to protest.
"The enemies of peace in Afghanistan today killed and injured in Kandahar, our people", said a statement from the Office of the Governor of Kandahar.
The demonstration began peacefully, but demonstrators turned violent, setting one fire school and vehicles in Kandahar City, said Zalma? Ayoubi, spokesman for the Governor of Kandahar province.
Together with the nine deaths 73 others were injured in the provincial government said.
Ayoubi said Afghan security forces arrested 17 people, including seven who were armed and are suspected, shooting at protesters.
Pastor Terry Jones of the 11 September 2001, sparked international controversy on the ninth anniversary of planned attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last year as his Church in Gainesville, Florida, "International burn a Quran day".
Jones Church not host a Quran burn on that day, but the Dove World Outreach Center website announced that a "International judges the Koran day" for last month set.
A picture of a burning book elsewhere showed on the website blog and read, "the event is over, the Qur'an was found guilty and a copy was burned in the building."
Some witnesses in Kandahar said demonstrators by the police were shot.
"I saw three personally who shot to death (were), and one of them was shot dead just next to me," said protester Shah sea.
But police said they shot at nor anyone killed.
"It (was) shots fired in the air to the people under control, and fortunately not one to bring one of the shots was killed", said Zemarai Corel, spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Taliban said that the group not behind any deaths was during the event.
"What was happening today in Kandahar the feeling of the nation, and the Islamic movement of the Taliban was not involved in (violence)," said Zabiullah Mojahed. "It was the Afghan police, who killed the innocent people of Kandahar, while their sense against the burning of the Holy Qur'an in Florida expressed were."
Condemnation of the UN Security Council for the Organization of the Islamic Conference generated the Mazari Sharif killings around the world, a 57-State group called the "collective voice of the Muslim world."
Jones in a statement Friday, called the attack "a very tragic and criminal action."
Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the police in Mazar-e Sharif, told reporters, a series of suspicious ", which may be the main organisers" were arrested by the attack Friday
The United Nations says that the seven UN staff killed four Nepalese security forces and three civilians. A UN source said, the three civilians from Norway, Sweden and Romania.
UN peacekeeping Director Alain Le Roy said also five protesters were killed. He said no Afghan UN staff among the dead were, he said.
"I understand there were hundreds if not, thousands of demonstrators." Some of them were clearly armed and they stormed into the building, said Le Roy.
He said the security guards tried their best to the protesters to halt advance, but were overwhelmed.
Le Roy said, it is not clear that the target was the United Nations. "It happened to the United Nations be, because the United Nations on the ground."
Another 24 people were injured, said Abdul Rauof Taj, Security Director of Balkh province.
The Security Council met Friday, and a declaration condemning the attack, in which United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan or UNAMA occurred the operations center of the.
Haji Sakhi Mohammad, a businessman in Mazar-e Sharif, said that the incident began after Friday prayers, appeared as many people as a protest against the burning of the Quran. People are calling for "Death to America" marched to the United Nations connection and broke in, he said. Gunfire broke out, and "I saw demonstrators to death shot," said he
A student in Mazar-e-Sharif, said he and his friends joined the demonstrators, who numbered in the hundreds. "When we reached the UNAMA Office, we came under shot by Afghan security forces." "Demonstrators became angry and stormed the building."
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari sentenced during a speech to Pakistan's legislature on 22 March burn the Quran.
He said "I, at the beginning, the people in Pakistan and on my own behalf the deliberate desecration of the Holy Quran to condemn by a fanatic in Florida," the speech, according to a transcript. "We condemn this Act in the strongest possible terms." ... "It is a serious setback for the efforts to promote harmony among civilised communities all over the world."CNN's contributed de Mati and Catherine E. Shoichet to this reportProtests over Koran burn reach Kandahar
Nine people were killed and wounded in the errors, everything from bullet wounds, 81 said Abdul Qayoum Pakhla, head of the provincial health. Kandahar has long been the heartland of the uprising of the Taliban, since it has been relatively quiet in recent months, a wave of additional American troops here arrived.
The protests here of the United Nations in Mazar-i-Sharif, the Headquarters came a day after a mob killed 12 people, overran 7 of international staff. The top official of the United Nations in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, blame Taliban infiltrators for the murders, say the victims were killed deliberately, rather than from an out-of-control mob murdered. The mob gathered after three mullahs on Friday prayer action in response to the Koran burning priest, Terry Jones, in Florida on 20 March demanded.
In Kandahar, were several thousand young men, shouting slogans death required, the Americans who try tires on fire in the city, burning cars and attacks on journalists setting Government of President Hamid Karzai, even after several hours on Saturday, violence, to cover the error. Shops and businesses were closed and most people stayed off the road. Many of the demonstrators were the white flag of the Taliban wave.
The police said that some of the protesters were armed, and occasionally in order to suppress the disturbances throughout the day continued Afghan authorities to the live ammunition. The 16 arrested 7 were armed, officials said.
Kandahar's provincial Governor, Tooryalai WESA, said that the police had to be patient the demonstrators on Saturday, although some grenades and other weapons used, but may "if it for another day on."
Zalma? Ayoubi, spokesman who said the Governor, the rioters of Zarghona Ana to burn high school for girls, attacked some classrooms and a school bus. The school is supported by the United States Agency for international development. The Taliban have to education for girls.
A spokesman for the US military in Kandahar, Colonel Web Wright, relatively small masses with the largest group, about 100 demonstrators, said offices gathered outside of the Governor were involved in. So far, no coalition forces were made the target of the protests.
Although Mazar-i-Sharif little or no Taliban is represented, Kandahar has a significant number of residents, who sympathize with the rebels.
There were also demonstrations of the Qur'an burn on the Friday and Saturday in Kabul, and on Friday in Herat, in the eastern Afghanistan. Both were peaceful and easily visited.
Afghan and international news media had first played down or ignored the actions of Mr. Jones, the Florida pastor. On Thursday but President Karzai gave a talk and given instructions burn the Quran and request to condemn the arrest of Mr. Jones for his actions. This topic in mosques in all Afghanistan was taken up on Friday.
It is not provided for in the American law arrest anyone for the burning of a Koran, or for that matter a Bible, which dishes suitable, would be to consider protected freedom of speech.
"Karzai this problem brought back to life, and he has some responsibility for the creation of this", said a prominent Afghan businessman, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation when he was identified as a critic of the President.
"Karzai's speech itself provoked people to take such measures," said Qayum Baabak, a political analyst in Mazar-i-Sharif. "Karzai for people patient rather than people still angry should have called."
Officials in Mazar-i-Sharif accused agitators also Taliban are from other provinces of stirring up violence at the protests.
However, a Taliban spokesman, denied that the insurgents had a role in the unrest in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar. "That was the reaction of the people in Afghanistan," said the spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid.
Mr. de Mistura, return from a visit to Mazar-i-Sharif, said there was ample evidence that agitators intentionally the UN workers killed.
The four international staff take refuge in a bunker within the Association, as the crowd outside set buildings and vehicles on fire.
The Taliban agitators with guns and spoke with accents from other parts of Afghanistan was armed, he said.
You methodically hunted the hidden international staff in the bunker. First, they found only the Russian Director of the Office, but they let him go if he convinced them that he was a Muslim recitation of the Qur'an in Arabic. If they found the others, they killed them.
Mohammed Zahir, head of that Department said criminal investigations of police of Kabul on Saturday, a team of suicide bombers tried to break the front gate at an American military base in Kabul, Camp Phoenix. One detonated his explosives at the entrance of the camp, another managed, about five meters in the aperture setting of the device, and the other two were he shot by guards before she could reach, said.
ENAYAT Najafizada contributed reporting from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.
2011年4月1日星期五
Call for new protests in Syria
But analysts said they were doubtful that the changes, one day after President pointedly refused to concessions, Bashar al-Assad come up more than window dressing would amount and activists promised to go ahead with plans for a nationwide protest on Friday.
Two Government created new committees announcements on Thursday to take the protesters concerns into account.
Appointed by a Committee investigate deaths in Dara'a and Latakia, two cities where demonstrators, the Government has cracked down, according to the State News Agency. Syrian human rights information link, an activist organization, the name of the 103 people killed in the country since the protests March 15, including at least 73 in Dara'a and 10 in Latakia started documented. It was not clear if the demonstrators killed in the Wednesday evening for Latakia contain.
The Government announced the creation of a group lift the emergency law imposed in 1963 and replaced by legislation ", ensures the maintenance of national security, would the citizens and the fight of against terrorism," to study according to the State News Agency. Abolition of emergency law was a major demand of the protesters. Under its provisions the law silence dissent and allows security forces citizens without charge held.
That demanded Syrian activists mass demonstrations across the nation to honor killed, when they demanded reforms in two weeks of protests. According to the associated press, called organizers with social networking sites for a "Friday of the martyrs" crackdown died a reference to scores of people, the Government.
The protest call could be an important test for the strength of the movement, which more than two weeks has made an unprecedented challenge of the four-decade iron rule in something the Assad family.
The police and the military have on the protests check aggressively responds; Activists say that at least 103 people have died. Mr. Assad's speech to the nation on Wednesday, where protesters dupes and agents of a foreign conspiracy, called leaving little doubt, that would continue the hard line.
Ammar al-Qurabi, a Syrian activist currently in Cairo, said the speech and the violence of the past two weeks could discourage some of the protest on Friday, but he said he remained optimistic.
"People are afraid to protest tomorrow, but there are many who are upset about the speech and the country right now, and one good many of them in happen will not shy away from, take to the street," he said.
"Of course I'm nervous;" killed my people in the street will be, "he added." "Speech of the President was very threatening."
Mr Assad, said the unrest that democracy were protests in his first public speech since the beginning of only a cover for a foreign conspiracy "Fragmentation of Syria to Syria as a nation, topple enforce an Israeli agenda."
He confirmed popular demands for reform, but insisted that protesters "had" been duped in the nation for his enemies to damage, and vowed that the country would bow to foreign pressure.
"It's clear of Bashar's speech, that he threatens Syrians, which go in the street," said Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist and visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington. "" He ended the speech with the words,"this is a fight and we are ready to fight." "But against whom?"
This question seemed only hours after the speech answered when security forces opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in the coastal city of Latakia, one stronghold of the ruling Baath party and the Shiite Alawi sect that dominates it. Witnesses and activists gave conflicting reports of 2 15 demonstrators killed.
To see in a video on YouTube posted demonstrators in Latakia and listen, sing, "The people want only freedom." In a second bear screaming demonstrators bloody put on the road.
Nevertheless, calls the Facebook group Syrian revolution 2011, to go more than 100,000 fans Syrians who, on Friday on the road. "What we understand from the talk is that we have no choice, but the regime remove" said the group in a statement posted Thursday.
Activists expressed little confidence that the Government would expand political freedoms in a meaningful way. Mr Ziadeh said he feared that counter-terrorism laws emergency law replace only a cosmetic change would be. "they are placed on basic rights the same restrictions the terrorism law, which they implement the emergency law," he said. "The emergency law be revoked could but of the State of emergency, which governs every aspect of our lives the same be".
Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris.
Call for new protests in Syria - New York Times
But analysts said they were doubtful that the changes, one day after President pointedly refused to concessions, Bashar al-Assad come up more than window dressing would amount and activists promised to go ahead with plans for a nationwide protest on Friday.
Two Government created new committees announcements on Thursday to take the protesters concerns into account.
Appointed by a Committee investigate deaths in Dara'a and Latakia, two cities where demonstrators, the Government has cracked down, according to the State News Agency. Syrian human rights information link, an activist organization, the name of the 103 people killed in the country since the protests March 15, including at least 73 in Dara'a and 10 in Latakia started documented. It was not clear if the demonstrators killed in the Wednesday evening for Latakia contain.
The Government announced the creation of a group lift the emergency law imposed in 1963 and replaced by legislation ", ensures the maintenance of national security, would the citizens and the fight of against terrorism," to study according to the State News Agency. Abolition of emergency law was a major demand of the protesters. Under its provisions the law silence dissent and allows security forces citizens without charge held.
That demanded Syrian activists mass demonstrations across the nation to honor killed, when they demanded reforms in two weeks of protests. According to the associated press, called organizers with social networking sites for a "Friday of the martyrs" crackdown died a reference to scores of people, the Government.
The protest call could be an important test for the strength of the movement, which more than two weeks has made an unprecedented challenge of the four-decade iron rule in something the Assad family.
The police and the military have on the protests check aggressively responds; Activists say that at least 103 people have died. Mr. Assad's speech to the nation on Wednesday, where protesters dupes and agents of a foreign conspiracy, called leaving little doubt, that would continue the hard line.
Ammar al-Qurabi, a Syrian activist currently in Cairo, said the speech and the violence of the past two weeks could discourage some of the protest on Friday, but he said he remained optimistic.
"People are afraid to protest tomorrow, but there are many who are upset about the speech and the country right now, and one good many of them in happen will not shy away from, take to the street," he said.
"Of course I'm nervous;" killed my people in the street will be, "he added." "Speech of the President was very threatening."
Mr Assad, said the unrest that democracy were protests in his first public speech since the beginning of only a cover for a foreign conspiracy "Fragmentation of Syria to Syria as a nation, topple enforce an Israeli agenda."
He confirmed popular demands for reform, but insisted that protesters "had" been duped in the nation for his enemies to damage, and vowed that the country would bow to foreign pressure.
"It's clear of Bashar's speech, that he threatens Syrians, which go in the street," said Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist and visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington. "" He ended the speech with the words,"this is a fight and we are ready to fight." "But against whom?"
This question seemed only hours after the speech answered when security forces opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in the coastal city of Latakia, one stronghold of the ruling Baath party and the Shiite Alawi sect that dominates it. Witnesses and activists gave conflicting reports of 2 15 demonstrators killed.
To see in a video on YouTube posted demonstrators in Latakia and listen, sing, "The people want only freedom." In a second bear screaming demonstrators bloody put on the road.
Nevertheless, calls the Facebook group Syrian revolution 2011, to go more than 100,000 fans Syrians who, on Friday on the road. "What we understand from the talk is that we have no choice, but the regime remove" said the group in a statement posted Thursday.
Activists expressed little confidence that the Government would expand political freedoms in a meaningful way. Mr Ziadeh said he feared that counter-terrorism laws emergency law replace only a cosmetic change would be. "they are placed on basic rights the same restrictions the terrorism law, which they implement the emergency law," he said. "The emergency law be revoked could but of the State of emergency, which governs every aspect of our lives the same be".
Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris.