Back To School!

Students across Syrian had their first day of school today, but it’s the entire country that needs to go back to school: the protesters to learn more of the basics of civil disobedience and acquire certain new tactical skills, the traditional opposition to relearn the dos and don’ts of political action, the silent majority to learn more about the true price of silence, the Assad loyalists to learn the rule of civility before it is too late, and the Assads themselves to learn the basic rules and etiquettes of life behind bars without eligibility for parole.

Sunday September 18, 2011

11 protesters were killed by Assad security officers, including a female high-school student in Homs City and a male child in Sanamein in Deraa/Hauran Province --- Syrian opposition members declare the establishment of a secular democratic coalition in Paris, and call for international protection for peaceful protesters --- The Jordanian Newspaper, Al-Arab Al-Youm (Arabs Today), reports in its Sunday edition that the Syrian Central Bank has conducted a number of transfers in Jordan meant to help it evade future sanctions, including changing a $400 million deposit in a major bank into Saudi Rial while keeping it in the same, bank, and withdrawing $30 million from a different bank and transporting the funds in cash to Syria.

DERAA/HAURAN

Friday in Hraak protesters come under fire, leaving one dead http://youtu.be/Q_PD0YwvC-I

Daytime

Sanamein an all children protest http://youtu.be/QlcMPweeFHY follow a funeral for the child Ibrahim Farrouh shot by a sniper on Friday http://youtu.be/YP97AnDaU2c other parts of the city observed a strike http://youtu.be/YdBcIz-hsOA Ankhel http://youtu.be/o-VbhJrZ_wY

Nighttime

Khirbet Ghazaleh http://youtu.be/pAb3dt_uK7w Taybah http://youtu.be/1nC31Ol9BBM Namar http://youtu.be/PeF9wkmK2Lo Da’el http://youtu.be/5XttZSBX470 Hraak http://youtu.be/HPyxzZnbvxw Harrah http://youtu.be/zz8OscJYePM Sourah http://youtu.be/Hp4qezb8LeE Tseel http://youtu.be/q8eaJUbjzJM

HOMS

Free Officers from the Khalid Bin Al-Walid Division in Rastan issue warning to the regime demanding the release of their leader Husain Harmoush and other colleagues http://youtu.be/H9Xd7teQ5is Children pay “respect” to Bashar al-Assad on their way to school http://youtu.be/_HVU9UK81RQ A funeral for a local Rastan activist http://youtu.be/ljcisqiW2Ec Karm Al-Zeitun Neighborhood in Homs City witnesses random shooting by pro-Assad militias on Saturday http://youtu.be/FDSTteyeNLQ a kid is arrested in Ghoutah neighborhood in Homs City http://youtu.be/Lk4ZaeTIMM4

Homs City – Daytime

Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/GZLZHKyfwUw , http://youtu.be/-iPZf4ogfJY a martyr http://youtu.be/d57u7ul3ULA Baba Amr http://youtu.be/Fi6Y0G62i9M children demonstrate shouting “no studying no teaching until the presidents falls” http://youtu.be/Myd3FjsjNVE an all-women protest http://youtu.be/umxxBnj4dlw Ghoutah http://youtu.be/0qBc2DVbPsY Karam Al-Zeitun the bodies of 3 martyrs killed on Saturday http://youtu.be/NqjoiJyY-_8 Ghantoo http://youtu.be/erBBcBW2n_8

Homs City – Nighttime

Khaldiyeh  http://youtu.be/03nmNVM_Hoo Qoussour http://youtu.be/ElOrcKWdKuI Jobar http://youtu.be/PiXUA68gQD0 Hamrah http://youtu.be/1t2Za2pSeUM Qarabees http://youtu.be/OqLOMBydWek Insha’aat http://youtu.be/zvM5aMst1Go , http://youtu.be/wu77Bdgyy08 Jib Al-Jandali http://youtu.be/WxMx_aRJBIs Bab Dreib http://youtu.be/lQ0G0fV0diA Ghoutah http://youtu.be/RfAD7QYRGCI

Homs Province

Talbisseh Women protest in the morning http://youtu.be/s5U8WsFknzY and men come out at night http://youtu.be/eTOU3o-4-jw Rastan http://youtu.be/B4JlUYpq6Ng , http://youtu.be/-Mj6Ws7xLUU , http://youtu.be/qawBkSlrs3M Tadmor/Palmyra http://youtu.be/2G9ZI17NIvg , http://youtu.be/KGnMF3c6YYE Houleh http://youtu.be/qz3q0g5uTHc , http://youtu.be/7-NuAGGQD44

DAMASCUS

Daytime

Kanaker http://youtu.be/2OfldtEKLu4 Qaboun http://youtu.be/PK74iGc4ywM a funeral http://youtu.be/eypj4Dv09to , http://youtu.be/ee4cAMRBvuc Assaly http://youtu.be/sJpGcntNgug Kisweh students demonstrate after their first day in school http://youtu.be/HQoOnSveXCU , http://youtu.be/z0SFBAGKuz8 Eltal students come under tear gas when they demonstrate after school http://youtu.be/i39NUZV_QgI Daraya student demonstrate after school http://youtu.be/MShST-bqSsg

Nighttime

Douma http://youtu.be/9SmoDylOkGE , http://youtu.be/ZEN5tMTF3mE , http://youtu.be/wD_axTb40fE , http://youtu.be/hnQ6340w2sM , http://youtu.be/G4dJhXD8mo8 Kisweh http://youtu.be/e-ms-q-zdTs Saqba a funeral http://youtu.be/SBickNzl9R4 Harasta http://youtu.be/UDtXtg7M6n4 Zabadani http://youtu.be/GuVYVVE3m0I Midan - Abou Habel http://youtu.be/5nv4iW_vnLU

IDLIB

Daytime

Binnish http://youtu.be/kUoN0zKQfz4 , http://youtu.be/MUQWrnZTwnY Jabal Al-Zawiyeh the funeral of a local activist killed under torture http://youtu.be/-mXFkX9FtKg

Nighttime

Idlib City http://youtu.be/-kk8mQPCTaI , http://youtu.be/h1IJ3VMgPdk Ghadfeh http://youtu.be/p4K_SSEP8VQ Sarmeen http://youtu.be/W1V54fn-Rkk , http://youtu.be/C8RPr_Ds9q8 Jarjanaz http://youtu.be/GkSKUisPAX0

ELSEWHERE

Aleppo – Andan http://youtu.be/6WyKzdvkrl4

Deir Ezzor City http://youtu.be/mq6wWWhZga4 Deir Ezzor -Qouriyeh http://youtu.be/kQcSLqyNybg (daytime) http://youtu.be/kHNhUqMJyyY

Hama – Hilfaya http://youtu.be/JbvORsbPxrA