The Routine of
defiance and crackdown continues to unfold, sham elections and useless UN missions
notwithstanding.
Wednesday May 9, 2012
18 killed, mostly in Idlib
and Homs. A roadside bomb targets UN monitors convoy in Daraa Province, but no
monitor was hurt but six Syrian soldiers sustained injuries. The town of Khan
Shaikhoon, Idlib Province, came under heavy pounding. At night, the pounding of
Homs City neighborhoods resumed. On Thursday morning, two explosions rocked
Damascus City, no word yet as to casualties.
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The Assad regime has been able to retain the
allegiance or at least the passivity of Syria’s minorities by raising the
specter of sectarian violence opposition, said exiled dissident Ammar
Abdulhamid, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “The
communal divide has given the regime room for maneuver,” he told the Woodrow
Wilson forum. But the opposition also shares the blame for failing to give
sufficient guarantees of minority rights or to respect Kurdish identity and
aspirations for autonomy. The international community has given “sympathy, but
not support” for the opposition, said Abdulhamid, who called for more assistance
with capacity building and transitional planning.
Important Read
(Veton
Surroi is a journalist, writer and politician. He was a senior negotiator for
Kosovo in the Rambouillet peace talks in 1999 and the Vienna status talks from
2005 to 2007.)
A Cuban-Syrian Alliance in Florida
“Yesterday
was a historic day for Syrian Americans and Cuban Americans,” wrote a friend describing
the important development that took place on May 8 in Florida. The development:
a group of Syrian-American and Cuban-American organizations got together and
signed an agreement to:
“coordinate
all our political, diplomatic, logistic and humanitarian efforts in pursuit of
the liberation of Cuba and Syria, hence constituting a United Front for the
Freedom and Democracy. Therefore, the Cuban Resistance and the Syrian
Revolution jointly declare: The people want the overthrow of the dictatorial
regimes of Assad and Castro."
Bluntly
put, Syrian Americans and Cuban American in Florida will be lobbying together for
the adoption of a clear strategy for overthrowing the Assad and Castro regimes.
Presidential Candidates who want to win that ever coveted Cuban vote in Florida
better start calibrating their message on Syria, and Cuba, now.
The Syrian
American organizations that took part in the event: American-Syria Public
Affairs Committee (AMSPAC), Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), United For
Syria (UFS), Syrian American Council (SAC) and Syrian Expatriate Organization
(SEO).
Video Highlights
Damascus
Explosions:
plume of smoke rise after the second explosion http://youtu.be/9gjmehvtnUs , http://youtu.be/7-sPqd2NJGA
Different communities
in Syria sleep and wake up to the sounds of gunfire: Alatareb, Aleppo
http://youtu.be/s8IkLzrdUdw Qouriyeh,
Deir Ezzor http://youtu.be/IDY03BOLE5A
Hama City http://youtu.be/KmpslM020cw
Kafrenbel, Idlib http://youtu.be/4cHxwOLkGgw
Ankhel, Daraa http://youtu.be/MSiAGZoUDXE
Ariha, Idlib http://youtu.be/eb_xuciryg4
Bdama, Idlib http://youtu.be/7exbX1O38k0
In Idlib
Province, the town of Khan Shaikhoon and surroundings came under heavy pounding
http://youtu.be/BSFwPkYOBME
The
pounding of Homs City continues: Qoussour http://youtu.be/c3vzt5PUUkI , http://youtu.be/4YYnOOrCMZw , http://youtu.be/RwMPpgPOLdc , http://youtu.be/DRZ_nmIytes
The
pounding of the nearby town of Talbisseh, Homs Province, leaves this two
martyrs http://youtu.be/4a8RmMU5MOk The
pounding takes place shortly after a visit by UN monitors http://youtu.be/HmmjuGnz340
The suburb
of Arbeen, Rural Damascus, gets pounded http://youtu.be/rsnzO5QnHWg
And of
course, there were rallies everywhere:
Idlib: Kafroumeh http://youtu.be/0cc_fO_Af78 Heesh
http://youtu.be/thuc3harpl8 Sarmeen
http://youtu.be/BDaJzjOImNs Binnish
http://youtu.be/U6PJHzWLEOg Kafar
Takhareem http://youtu.be/2-PjLxWBweM
Deir
Ezzor City:
Orfi http://youtu.be/OoxGZ4bSv8k
Sabhah http://youtu.be/PhAJPkIVMNk
Damascus
City: Tadamon
http://youtu.be/cQXfXPMjwMQ Jobar
http://youtu.be/acGWVa53iFE
Daraa
City: Qoussour
http://youtu.be/tfy0iSL_u8c
Homs City: Wa’er http://youtu.be/GLvX3QQfGrM
Hama: Hama City (Janoub
Al-Malaab) http://youtu.be/BbKDSytuSHY
Kfar Zeiteh http://youtu.be/TdLQa-9tGIA
Hassakeh: Ghuweiran http://youtu.be/Z_RB4kPCnD4
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