World leaders who don’t want to intervene to prevent the
devolution of Syria should know that the day will come when they will have to
intervene to put as much of the pieces back together again. But intervention now
means less blood and smaller commitment.
“Down with Councils & Coordination
Committees! Down with the traitors in the SNC! Down with the Syrian Revolution
Main Page (on Facebook)! Down with the Union of Coordination Committees and
with the Syrian Revolution General Commission!”
Saturday March 10, 2012 – A day
dedicated to the memory of the Jisr Ashoughour Massacre of 1980
Death toll: 87.
News
Op-Eds & Special Reports
A typical day in Syria
Thirty Eight people were killed in sweep operations
throughout the Idlib Province, including in Ariha, Idlib City, Binnish
(13) and Kafrenbel. The head of the Free Syrian Army, Lt. Col. Riyad Al-Ass'aad, also reports that local units affiliated with the FSA has downed one chopper and destroyed 6 tanks belonging to loyalists.
Sixteen defectors were killed by loyalist militias near the city of Jisr
Ashoughour when their convoy was ambushed.
Seventeen defectors were killed in clashes in Daraya
Suburb in Damascus.
In Talbisseh,
Homs Province, 10 loyalists were killed in clashes with the local
resistance.
Twenty prisoners in Raqqah City Central Prison were wounded when
guards opened fire to disperse an anti-Assad protest rally the prisoners staged
in the prison’s courtyard.
Clashes between loyalists and local resistance took place throughout the
city of Deir Ezzor, especially near the local airport and Jourah and
Jbeileh neighborhoods. Elsewhere in the province, clashes were reported in Albou
Kamal and Qouriyeh.
In
Damascus, clashes were reported in Douma, Jobar, Misraba, Qatana
and Daraya.
Pro-Assad
militias carried out raids into a number of villages and towns in the Qalamoun
mountains north of Damascus City.
In Deraa,
clashes were reported in Saida, Hraak, Jizeh and Tafas. In Jassem, five defectors
were executed by loyalists.
Meanwhile,
the pounding of Old Homs continues, so does the pounding of the towns of
Qusayr and Rastan in Homs Province.
In Hama
City, sniper activities were reported in various locations, and several
neighborhoods were pounded.
Current Trends
Armed
groups have increasingly switched to Guerilla warfare tactics. But then,
pro-Assad militias (AKA, the Shabbiha) are now using similar tactics in
addition to wide-scale looting, murder of entire families, targeting of Sunni
religious symbols (mosques and minarets), and ethnic cleansing in areas where
Alawites are majority. The Shabbiha have by now become an army onto themselves
and have already been trained by the Republican Guard and their Iranian
advisers. Their main task is to lend support to Assad loyalist troops by
spreading terror in restive communities, hence their increasing reliance on cold-blooded
murder using knives and sparing neither women nor children. Rape has become a favorite
weapon as well, especially in Homs City.
Meanwhile,
and according to Al-Jazeerah correspondent in Antakya who met with the
high level defectors who had recently crossed the border into Turkey, ethnic
cleansing targeting Sunni villages and neighborhoods located in Alawite
majority areas is already taking place, with residents of five Sunni villages
among the recent victims. The Assads, we are told, are preparing for the
establishment of an Alawite state along the coastal region, should worst come
to worst http://youtu.be/5Uto07vVaHQ
Nonviolent
activists are adopting more tactics meant to disrupt the normal flow of daily
life, including blocking main highways with burning tires every night, and
continuing to organize after school student rallies throughout the country.
Major defections
in Aleppo lead to the formation of another brigade under the umbrella of
the Free Syrian Army http://youtu.be/4aKqgRQjDwk.
Meanwhile, In Idlib, the first high ranking Christian officer, Moutee Ilyas, declares
his defection and joins the ranks of the Free Syrian Army http://youtu.be/0U4WgpBTrSM
As things
devolve in Syria, anger mounts and people blame everybody, including the
international community and the opposition. Who can blame them? No one has offered
them anything so far. Even the donations sent by Syrians living abroad often
fail to reach the intended communities. The sentiments of frustration are
captured in this banner from the town of Binnish, which received its fair share
of the pounding today, and offered 13 martyrs.
Homs
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Homs City
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The
pounding of Old Homs neighborhoods continues to claim children as victims http://youtu.be/56EV7PPb5bY The
pounding of Karm Al-Zeitun and Rifai Neighborhoods continues http://youtu.be/aY5gFZe3KXM , http://youtu.be/PjFrCeLSjsk Karm
Al-Zeitun: martyr http://youtu.be/ulgtG50Kbi4
Bab
Dreib:
sniper targets the cameraman http://youtu.be/VTDi7a5jKVQ
A funeral http://youtu.be/XBN0LXPL_Rg
Martyrs http://youtu.be/6yf6cLWSPcc
, http://youtu.be/hyNOk5SQA-o
Sixty
Street:
trying to pull the body of a martyr from the street http://youtu.be/8e4_gNyZDOc
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Daytime Rallies
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Nighttime Rallies
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Wa’er http://youtu.be/KSHAK2XT91Q Cairo
Street http://youtu.be/UyRFFxExM14
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/xjRb5jHkdAA
Qoussour http://youtu.be/U20M7JAWiW4
Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/MJVgxoHPC24
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Homs Province
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Talbisseh: more defectors http://youtu.be/FAGBqskIIpE
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Daytime Rallies
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Houleh http://youtu.be/UN_7P3rMR_s
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Nighttime Rallies
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Tadmor http://youtu.be/9MVmBiijb_g
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Damascus
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Damascus City
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Jobar: sounds of
nighttime clashes http://youtu.be/76F2fewXH0I
Qadam: protesters burn
tires to stop traffic on the Damascus – Amman Highway http://youtu.be/4AITN-EOXwM Same in
Midan http://youtu.be/bWyF0y1DtsM This
happens every night at different intersections.
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Nighttime Rallies
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Barzeh http://youtu.be/8Q8NxbJmrN0 Midan
http://youtu.be/ym1R3ZYHRaw
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Damascus East (Eastern & Western Ghoutah)
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Douma: mass funeral http://youtu.be/iOgnTttrFLc , http://youtu.be/X-MJAcsZFRw
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Damascus South (Southern Ghoutah)
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Daraya: stormed again http://youtu.be/4C5cUw9Tbe4 Clashes
with local unit of the FSA left 17 dead: 6 from the town of Kanaker, and 11
from other nearby communities.
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West (Zabadani and Wadi Barada)
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Nighttime Rallies
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Zabadani http://youtu.be/GCtR0WY-WSk
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Hama
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Hama City
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Daytime Rallies
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Sawa’eq http://youtu.be/MJK7akUiJvc
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Nighttime Rallies
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Aleppo
Road
http://youtu.be/ArbNBMAt_Kk Housniyat
http://youtu.be/8e_3sgL53YI
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Idlib
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Ariha gets pounded http://youtu.be/BMM6zG7G_1Q , http://youtu.be/x5k-P1ld4PE , http://youtu.be/sHnImAXiKMg , http://youtu.be/M597txDIJDM Tanks move
in http://youtu.be/rPc3CpJEX2c , http://youtu.be/1nOGl5wMoAQ
Idlib
City: sniper
victim in the street http://youtu.be/Z5nzkR4fxvU
A little among today’s dead http://youtu.be/OvOd64YJ-6o
Black smoke fills up the skies over Idlib city http://youtu.be/-Zf9lZw8LaA The sounds
of automatic gunfire http://youtu.be/oH-fABKvS4U
Binnish gets pounded at
dawn http://youtu.be/n6c1WmFz7VA
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Daytime Rallies
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Maar Dibseh http://youtu.be/46sr8Pag2Ng Binnish
http://youtu.be/_Uc9hty74no Habeet
http://youtu.be/8nsjxIhNook Kafar
Yahmoul (funeral) http://youtu.be/Xxbm-OF0Acs
Eltman’ah http://youtu.be/Ch9-ynK3rDE
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Nighttime Rallies
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Ram
Hamdan http://youtu.be/VCRf21unFyE Sarmeen
http://youtu.be/dNCMnXGbyfg Taftanaz
http://youtu.be/NV_gidjRMuE
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Deraa/Hauran
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Deraa City
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Nighttime Rallies
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Mahatah (Sadd) http://youtu.be/5oprDP3p9kA
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Deraa/Hauran Province
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Khirbet
Ghazaleh:
locals block the nearby highway using burning tires http://youtu.be/H_8CAKRzg70
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Tafas comes under fire http://youtu.be/6QQGIBb6iAk And Matayeh
http://youtu.be/sLnyUbWgXSo
Saida: sounds of
nighttime clashes between FSA and loyalists http://youtu.be/6RertqPz2zk
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Daytime Rallies
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Ankhel (funeral) http://youtu.be/1LieQvKB7Pk Hraak
http://youtu.be/o77pnhwm4MI Kaheel
http://youtu.be/s9Ytqy3299w Ataman
http://youtu.be/KIjn3EFvGCE Alam
http://youtu.be/ENca-mv-t2s
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Nighttime Rallies
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Aleppo
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Aleppo Province
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Atareb: tanks move in http://youtu.be/vWNbRhiGf7w Minarets
targeted as usual http://youtu.be/P8iTLlFEMrw
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Daytime Rallies
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Tal
Rif’aat
http://youtu.be/pvfhKSbvGVM
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Deir Ezzor
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Daytime Rallies
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Albou
Kamal (funeral)
http://youtu.be/kQF3b71DDnQ
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Nighttime Rallies
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Hassakeh
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Nighttime Rallies
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Amoudeh http://youtu.be/CS5jsugukH4
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The
residents of the Turkish refugee camp, Yelda, most of whom hail from
Jisr Ashoughour, held their own commemoration of the Massacre of Jisr
Ashoughour of 1980 http://youtu.be/ubERRZMH_js
, http://youtu.be/3Jh8ZPWcas4 , http://youtu.be/M9gt7wTzHx4
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