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Friday, August 24, 2012

The Syrian military intensifies its crackdown on Aleppo and Damascus


The Syrian army backed by tanks and aircraft, have bombed several neighborhoods Thursday rebels Aleppo scenario for a month in a fierce battle between the regime and the Syrian rebellion as militants in the city.Also in Daraya, a Sunni town few miles southwest of Damascus, attacks by troops loyal to the regime are from Wednesday much more intense than in previous weeks. Although not used all their firepower against a poorly armed rebels as the government is determined to win at any cost Aleppo, the largest city and commercial center of Syria that is largely in rebel hands, and crush any outbreak of rebellion in the capital. It is unlikely, and even some opponents of the regime say that President Bashar al-Assad would not dream of using chemical weapons, but just in case, British Prime Minister David Cameron, today joined the position expressed by the President of the United Barack Obama, on this weapon. "It is completely unacceptable. This would force a new approach" to the conflict, said Cameron. Obama already said days ago that the use of such weapons is a red line.  Sajur neighborhoods, Tarik Al Bab, Bustan al Qasr and Al-Shaar in Aleppo were bombed in the early hours of the day with heavy artillery, said the General Commission of the Syrian Revolution (CGRS), which brings together opponents of the regime and the Observatory Syrian Human Rights (OSDH). In Tarik Al Bab shell fell every five minutes, and a fighter bombed Sajur barium as the CGRS. There were also clashes in the district of Saladin, the main rebel stronghold where an insurgent was killed, as in Seif al Dawla, Suleiman al Halabi and Hamdaniyé, said the OSDH. The Syrian army has maintained the siege on Damascus with artillery fire in the south of the city. From helicopters soldiers fired missiles and machine guns. The regime launched the fiercest attack so far this month to shore up the regime's control over the capital, after a 17-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. In the course of it, government forces killed a local journalist sympathetic to the insurgency during a house-to-house crawl in search of rebels, in the district of Nahr Eisha.Mohamed Said al Odala, who worked for the government daily Tishreen , died after being shot at close range. At least 47 people were killed in the bombing of the south of the Syrian capital. The army used tanks and helicopters in their offense around Damascus, whose launch coincided with the departure of UN observers after the failure of the peace mission led by Kofi Annan, who resigned from office weeks ago. "All Damascus trembles at the noise of the bombs," said a resident of Kfar Wednesday Suseh, one of the neighborhoods hit during the regime's offensive to clear the city of rebels. At least 22 people died in that district, and another 25 in the nearby district of Nahr Eisha, including Al Odala. Across the country killed at least 109 people -65 civilians, 29 soldiers and five rebels, according to the Syrian Observatory counts of Human Rights (OSDH), based in London. Although the authorities said several weeks ago that had regained control of the entire capital, the most major military operation in the country on Wednesday took aim Damascus. "There are 22 tanks in Kfar Suseh now, and after each of them at least 30 soldiers. They are going house to house men and running, "said Bassam via Skype, an activist in Kfar Suseh. Other opponents in Muadamiya, southwestern suburb of Damascus, have said that from Monday, government forces have killed 86 people, half of them executed. According to Human Rights Watch, regime troops fired on a funeral procession in the town, located about six kilometers from the capital. State television broadcast footage of weapons allegedly confiscated from the rebels in Muadamiya, which was one of the first districts that joined the revolt. Since the start of the uprising in March 2011, have been killed in Syria 23,000 people, according to the OSDH.

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