The New Year begins with more protests, and more crackdowns, including
the killing of a child.
In addition to above warning to the Syrian
opposition not to go below the demands of the revolutionaries, because “we made
you and we can cancel you,” the
inhabitants of Kafrenbel carry signs calling for “an urgent foreign military
intervention,” “intervention from Outer Space,” and “construction of 5-star
hotel to attract the Arab monitors” http://youtu.be/7aBqma8GbL4.
Sunday 1, 2012
Today’s death toll: 10. The Breakdown:
4 in the town of Qseir in Homs Province, 1 in the town of Kafrenbel, 1
(a child) in the town of Khattab in Hama Province. The child was killed in the
early hours of 2012 and is believed to be the first fatality of the new year.
315 protesters including 24 children have been killed since the
beginning of the Arab League mission in Syria on December 26.
The General Strike continues to be observed by protest communities
throughout the country.
Links
As Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian dissident, put it to me: "In
the fight of tanks against bare chests, the odds are not exactly even and
bravery can only get you so far." The Syrian incarnation of the "Arab
Street" we used to hear so much about now wants Nato planes in the skies.
“This is giving the Syrian regime an Arab cover for continuing its
inhumane actions under the eyes and ears of the Arab League.”
Showing
support to the Damascene suburb of Daraya who came under attack today, and denouncing
the agreement between the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination
Body as well as the NCB itself were the main themes of today’s rallies. Meanwhile, the town of Khattab in Hama
Province, offers the first martyr of 2012, a child http://youtu.be/JALXjSFJU5E
HOMS CITY: Two activists who were
transporting milk to the children of Homs City were executed in cold
blood by loyalist security forces http://youtu.be/fGsasV7vIH4
No voice echoes louder
in the streets of Homs City today than that of soccer player and activist,
Abdelbassit Sarout. People like Sarout may not be the future political leaders
of Syria, but they are and will be definitely the king-makers. They have their
finger on the popular pulse and so far their words and utterances reflect
popular will. Some will inevitably be “corrupted” by greater involvement in the
political process, but many will hopefully rise above the fray to keep the
political process going in the right direction: that of greater transparency
and accountability. So far, Sarout is doing a great job retaining his composure
and his modesty, and remaining true to who he is.
This video from December
31 Rally in Khalidyeh is revealing, it shows SNC President Burhan Ghalioun
addressing the throngs, when Sarout makes his Jesus-like entrance to lead them
in chanting: “Burhan Ghalioun, can’t you hear? The people want a no-fly zone.” http://youtu.be/XkLhQU_jaYE Later in the
evening, and as midnight approaches, Sarout leads the crowd in singing celebrating
te arrival of the New Year by wishing Bashar Assad a “dark year” and the
revolutionaries a “white year,” and by cursing Hafiz’s soul http://youtu.be/fcrGS62j83A
Bayadah offers a martyr http://youtu.be/XBUWAmHBLvM and Wadi
Al-Arab another http://youtu.be/hEdGfSjg8KA
Actress-Activist Fadwa Sulaiman distributes gifts to the children of Wadi
Arab http://youtu.be/73m7TWAChtk
Bab Al-Sibaa: Local activist Omar
Tillawi address AL monitors and take them to task for failing to visit
certain key locations around the city http://youtu.be/Mehp-E5kRNI
Here Tillawi explains that the monitors failed to accurately document the
situation in the neighborhood and meets with local residents to ask them their
opinion about the AL and its mission. Naturally, no one thinks highly of AL http://youtu.be/Mehp-E5kRNI
Bab Al-Sibaa protesters light up
firewood for warmth http://youtu.be/vVlgRAZG1lw
Then they turn their attention to their rally http://youtu.be/ZxuVc-_rIaM
Rallies Baba Amr “Burhan
Ghalioun, can’t you hear? The people want a no-fly zone” http://youtu.be/DA_Mle17u1U Qoussour
http://youtu.be/fLvq5qvp57I Karm
Al-Zeitun http://youtu.be/6OpHMd2k0dc
, http://youtu.be/E02c_pANBhc Bab
Houd http://youtu.be/Ns8ZONos_dM Bab
Tadmor http://youtu.be/TIsF_xGnG4A
Nighttime Bayadah http://youtu.be/CL8tHhrQ3y8 Qoussour
http://youtu.be/G4W1nXy-wIc , Wa’er
http://youtu.be/IE8CJc-Bopc Baba
Amr http://youtu.be/wcCL6jV51Is Insha’aat
http://youtu.be/TkYiGF8dskc Ghoutah
http://youtu.be/yUIh-wndYGU Malaab
http://youtu.be/UNKpvPCnLCE Jouret
Al-Shayah http://youtu.be/hO1h3SfT148
Sifsafeh http://youtu.be/l3GaQqU61nU
Khaldiyeh http://youtu.be/jFiz2hR5_V4
Deir Baalbah http://youtu.be/0I1RFweQmiE
Jib Al-Jandali http://youtu.be/knqp6HykRJQ
More videos of December
31 visit to Deir Baalbah: the arrival http://youtu.be/_ZqKlZrnC9c Protesters
come under fire before the visit http://youtu.be/2aVDm9RuHd4
and after http://youtu.be/H3c0XFadweM
HOMS PROVINCE: Rallies Talbisseh
http://youtu.be/q-7rtSdK5ds , http://youtu.be/DcoDszTAPCQ Kafar Aya
http://youtu.be/mMF-s0yiKXQ Houleh
http://youtu.be/9BgIqy1t2pw Ghanto
http://youtu.be/LUwH_F1V9HA Qseir
http://youtu.be/fktUW7TgJ6c (night) http://youtu.be/EMM8am9xgF8 Tadmor
(Night) http://youtu.be/aX1vOwVumwk
HAMA CITY: a martyr http://youtu.be/MHXmrsptiaQ
Rallies Hamidiyeh http://youtu.be/AxI_Jo5eoC8 Bab Qibli
http://youtu.be/VI8U__Hdl4s Frayeh
http://youtu.be/0KzjqLBCMRQ Qoussour
http://youtu.be/cjmavX6OA8k Sheikh
Anbar http://youtu.be/AUaOR88_oEI
HAMA PROVINCE: Shortly after midnight, the town of Khattab
comes under heavy pounding leaving 1 child dead who is believed to be the first
martyr of 2012 http://youtu.be/VhSgb1fffCs
The martyr http://youtu.be/JALXjSFJU5E
The funeral http://youtu.be/SuAff4Q9XdM
Rallies Ellatamneh http://youtu.be/E39QnTswcBA Kafar
Zeiteh http://youtu.be/JShQ-dNNlAU
Karnaz http://youtu.be/vt6srfY7I3E
Taybat Al-Imam http://youtu.be/yKDbgFjL6x4
, http://youtu.be/KD-gNvlG8xk
DAMASCUS CITY: Protesters in the
suburb of Daraya in the rural areas to the south of Damascus comes under
fire http://youtu.be/EpH33k82rio , http://youtu.be/eZyqekKqE94 as the
homsification of the restive areas in Damascus (the city, the suburbs and the
rural areas) continues http://youtu.be/o00vdLJuzX4
Still the locals managed to hoist the independence flag as a sign of defiance as
they changed “Oh people of Damascus, here in Daraya, the regime has fallen” http://youtu.be/0yLz9sGKxfA , http://youtu.be/6IhuX2lHQ0k Regime
loyalist troops showed them that physically at least, the Darayans still had a
way to go before they achieved their goal http://youtu.be/YJLfsOhCNF8
The protesters were unfazed http://youtu.be/BCYJqTSs3N8
There were martyrs http://youtu.be/Fvb74Bz-WUw
A chopper overflies the scene http://youtu.be/0se0NQbRHCU
Led by their womenfolk,
the people of Moadamiyah come out in the thousands to receive the AL
monitors. The demanded the release of all detainees, the ouster of Assad and
saluted the Free Syrian Army http://youtu.be/V23rrSfmrYk
They also carried pictures of some of their martyrs http://youtu.be/WYvAr0c5MCw Some chanted
calling for the execution of Assad http://youtu.be/7av1UYFqRLY
, http://youtu.be/BIiE-fVdBJQ Others
show their wounds http://youtu.be/LYRbo77Vsuk
A woman talks to an AL monitor and pleads for the freedom of detainees http://youtu.be/5t2X2pLiO34 Locals,
including children, explain their experience in detention http://youtu.be/le7kUkonQu8 Locals tell
the monitors about the bus blown up by loyalists near the entrance of their
suburb and blamed on them in order to justify an earlier incursion into the restive
suburb http://youtu.be/f-xnKCMuT6w Later,
locals took back to the streets to show their support of the people in Daraya
http://youtu.be/KScletVTW5c Some locals
offer to host some monitors in their homes so they can see with their own eyes
what happens after they leave http://youtu.be/TzJApjw8dbo
In another interview,
far the hubbub of the protesting masses, former detainees describe their experience
to the monitors http://youtu.be/yEb2tf6WoK4
, http://youtu.be/Od7Ff4E4FsU
Meanwhile, Syrian TV
showed interviews with what it claimed are locals from the neighborhood. Naturally,
none of them were, they often failed to get the correct accent, and the
interviews themselves were not made in the neighborhood. One of the outrageous
claims of Syrian officials on government TV stations is that the rallies shown on
YouTube and satellite networks are staged somewhere in the U.S. in reality,
staging fake rallies, interviews and terrorist attacks is part-and-parcel of
their own modus operandi, and modus vivendi http://youtu.be/hYCdBKroE5o
Nighttime Rallies Qaboun http://youtu.be/9judQHwFVaY Barzeh
http://youtu.be/35JxPM7Y0Eo Al-Hajar
Al-Aswad A nighttime funeral-cum-rally. Protesters demand a visit by AL
monitors http://youtu.be/xFcLMJkpVWw ,
http://youtu.be/Qcph20Tkt8Y Midan
http://youtu.be/9p47DkphTyc Zahirah
http://youtu.be/_tf-N4LvFh4 Jobar
http://youtu.be/L6I0RQHv92o
DAMASCUS – NORTH: Rallies in Qarrah
http://youtu.be/-HVVU2unvFg Yabroud
http://youtu.be/nLixRNDSWO0 Eltal
an all-women rally http://youtu.be/yLQDRqqmAtM
DAMASCUS –
EAST: Rallies
Zamalka http://youtu.be/pjrnrAJj0_I
, http://youtu.be/_FKHH3L1uVg Harasta
http://youtu.be/78TkVBIKGNk Saqba
http://youtu.be/hGUBs3NLBGY Douma
http://youtu.be/Pn2J0oLqaUQ , http://youtu.be/moxj5FQWaq4 Kafar
Batna http://youtu.be/fWbIS2_Jwes
Hamouriyeh http://youtu.be/er3TJTCRLIE
Arbeen http://youtu.be/WWtsRJ10Mc0
DAMASCUS –
SOUTH: Rallies
Zakyeh http://youtu.be/djhofOXklSA
Artouz http://youtu.be/ohmErFbcYLY
, http://youtu.be/t1ZNRaCHsN4 Jdeidet
Artouz http://youtu.be/PAeKgZ0esqw
DAMASCUS –
WEST: Zabadani
http://youtu.be/ok-hju_Mcmo
IDLIB: A banner at the city’s
entrance announces that the entire town of Saraqib is closed until the
regime is toppled http://youtu.be/Zq2YLuowMzg
A daytime rally http://youtu.be/i2Wfxa4cNkc
, http://youtu.be/kHRW9OJsTTE A nighttime
rally http://youtu.be/aLvmHTXaTR8
Rallies Ma’arrat Al-Nouman
http://youtu.be/fbnuiPHu9ZA Kafroumah
http://youtu.be/sWMFiQtTElA Ariha
http://youtu.be/QAMQSvN0okI Elteh
http://youtu.be/3UCO_-U5k7E Jbala
http://youtu.be/dbR0XAGwPik Sarmeen
http://youtu.be/MdOASSs8d-0 Jobas
http://youtu.be/ke-doxOt0Ro Nighttime
Gilli http://youtu.be/jI9bLGBpvFg
Kafar Yahmoul http://youtu.be/lGYTU1pFfw8
Sarmada http://youtu.be/O6_9H3QZNB0
DERAA CITY: People claim that this
was a car bomb http://youtu.be/Iwm29ALohng
No one was reported hurt. Rallies Al-Sabeel http://youtu.be/-WjP1V4b1Ng
DERAA/HAURAN
PROVINCE:
Protesters in Harrah come under fire http://youtu.be/5v-7LnidBRw One of the
wounded http://youtu.be/qemy2WwUnDg
Rallies Tseel http://youtu.be/4UlHdjXdwp4 Ghariyeh
Gharbiyeh http://youtu.be/36c-Wxa00tc
Ghariyeh Sharqiyeh http://youtu.be/PPSlUXVOjH8
Mseifrah http://youtu.be/eimyhVaGCm8
Mleihah Sharqiyeh http://youtu.be/Q7uMasfLliw
Na’eemeh http://youtu.be/SYGVnT2HloQ
Hraak http://youtu.be/Fps7zqorjYk
Tafas http://youtu.be/C_YI7L8KfWo
Suhwah http://youtu.be/K3mQ26_tg74
Sourah http://youtu.be/BMisbkg1GiY
Nahteh http://youtu.be/8EGPVMFhaYo
Namar http://youtu.be/vGHt7A8YdoU
Nasseeb http://youtu.be/65l20YdCmGQ
Sanamein http://youtu.be/pjjEMfl6QOI
, http://youtu.be/jBoIDLXLH2A
Nighttime Ankhel http://youtu.be/4JwAaZWwRH8 Jizah
http://youtu.be/vF5hGQrIA3A Bosra
Al-Sham http://youtu.be/cJOtUDH0fFA
ALEPPO: Aleppo City In
an attempt to terrorize the local population, loyalists laid out a series of
coffins on the highway leading into the City http://youtu.be/dlKJbvjgZDI In the
evening, a protest rally in Marjeh http://youtu.be/zrHU9es7xec
, http://youtu.be/iV99bJFuu9s comes
under fire and tear gas as protesters clash with loyalist security forces http://youtu.be/neUQ0et0-wk , http://youtu.be/AG0YeByb53c
Rallies Anadan http://youtu.be/7glWYNeeSGI Hreitan
http://youtu.be/WdJr-b5ORno Akhtareen
http://youtu.be/8e3FKy9H7M0 Dar
Azzah http://youtu.be/8aIAUjFYb8Y
HASSAKEH: Rallies Hassekeh
City http://youtu.be/TGpqtEy6L5M Qamishly
http://youtu.be/Un-L5kBJFKE Ghuweiran
http://youtu.be/NzkuxHKmdXg Amoudeh
http://youtu.be/W0O7rvAx2sg Seri
Kaniye http://youtu.be/nF5dAK0rRN0
DEIR EZZOR: Qouriyeh http://youtu.be/tSWzsn2Dmdo
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