Activists: Syria Deserters Kill at Least 27 Troops in Daraa
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syrian army deserters killed at least 27 soldiers and members of the security forces during clashes in the southern province of Daraa on Thursday, a rights group said.
The fighting broke out at dawn at checkpoints in three separate locations, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.
On Wednesday, army defectors killed at least eight Syrian troops in an act of revenge after security forces shot dead five civilians, in the second such attack in as many days, the Observatory said.
In its latest statement, the rights group said that among 21 civilians killed on Wednesday was an Iraqi woman who snipers shot on the outskirts of Damascus.
As the toll mounted, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged world powers to act "in the name of humanity" against the crackdown, and the U.S. State Department's special coordinator on Middle East affairs, Frederic Hof, likened the Damascus regime to a "dead man walking."
15 December 2011, 10:22
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From now on you will see massive defections from the Assad army.
15 December 2011, 10:25
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Enough slaughter of innocent protesters. As much as I wanted to see the protests remain peaceful - and they mostly are - It is time to speak with Assad in the only language he understands. The free Syrian army will get a lot more support in the days and weeks to come, and covert actions will make it very unpleasant for the criminal regime, Russia and China not withstanding.
15 December 2011, 17:55
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Go go go Free Syrian army. Bravo. To eliminat 27 regular trops, their strength must be growing!!! ASSad is finished.
15 December 2011, 20:10
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Scare tactics ya mowaten :)
change the record please: it does not work anymore.
trying to scare us with salafis and so forth makes me laugh :)
M14 coalition is so strong and convinced where right is, unlike M8 which is disintegrating.
let us see who will leave M8 first :)
15 December 2011, 20:18
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MOWATEN, did the southern lebanese resist the Israelis peacefully?!?!@? GROW UP, after 10 months of rape, torture, destruction and murder every human has the right to defend himself according to the Quran, and yes the 0.5 million protest in 7ama and deir zoor and der3a were peaceful! GET OVER IT
16 December 2011, 00:30
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One would hope that the Syrian army members will desert in larger numbers now that they are facing death for Assad's survival.
They should all go home because Assad will leave them soon....
16 December 2011, 04:15
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Very shameful how we kill one another for years and years now, and the real enemy is laughing at us disintegrating, they stole the holy land and instead of uniting our ranks to better our economy and isolate them, we do the total opposite.
