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Tag Archives: Syria

Nov 14 2011
Mark Twain, probably

Arab League votes to suspend Syria if it doesn’t end violence against protesters

Arab League votes to suspend Syria if it doesn’t end violence against protesters

Jack Shenker and Peter Beaumont, The Observer:

Syria has been told it will be suspended from the Arab League – and faces the threat of sanctions in the Arab world – if it does not agree to end its bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters. The vote in Cairo took place after Syria had failed to abide by an agreement negotiated by the Arab League to end violence against its people, instead continuing with assaults on opposition centres.

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Qatar’s prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al Thani, said 18 countries had agreed to the suspension, which will take effect on Wednesday. Syria, Lebanon and Yemen voted against it, and Iraq abstained. The Arab League will also introduce political and economic sanctions against Syria.

For reference, there have only been two suspensions in the sixty-five year history of the Arab League: Egypt during the ’70s and ’80s and Libya earlier this year.

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Jul 20 2011
Mark Twain, probably

16 killed at Syrian funeral procession

16 killed at Syrian funeral procession

Borzou Daragahi and Roula Hajjar reporting on an unfolding situation for the Los Angeles Times:

Syrian security forces allegedly killed at least 16 people in Syria’s third-largest city Tuesday amid allegations that the government of President Bashar Assad was attempting to bolster its widely challenged rule by intensifying the country’s sectarian tensions.

The shootings took place at a funeral procession for victims of the ongoing violence in the city of Homs, 80 miles north of Damascus. Chilling amateur-video footage posted to the Internet by activists showed panicked residents fleeing amid the roar of automatic weapons fire.

Coverage has died down quite a bit on the television machine, but there’s still a ton of unrest in the region from the Arab Spring.

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