Syrian troops kill 50 in three days, says activist

12th August (Bloomberg) - Syrian security forces killed at least 50 people in three days, said the activists, such as regional and international pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad to end the repression against demonstrators government.
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The deaths in the eastern town of Deir al-Zour, the central province of Homs occurred, said the northern province of Idlib and the southern part of Dara, where the uprising began in March, Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria. At least 11 demonstrators in Homs, Idlib, the province of Hama, the city of Aleppo were, Deir al-Zour and suburbs of the capital of Damascus killed, thousands of people marched, said Mahmoud Merhi, president of the Arab Organization for Human Rights.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview with CBS News yesterday in Europe, India and China are called to leave pressure on Assad and sanctions to be imposed on oil and gas in Syria to increase.

The Obama soon called Assad to withdraw, said one U.S. official, remain anonymous because the management are still discussing, is the issue and taking into account the timing of any announcement. While the U.S. has concerns about the possibility of civil war in Syria, more on the prospect of sectarian violence by the government and the possibility that the situation in Syria sponsored lead to instability in the Middle East focuses official said yesterday.


More than 300 people from 31 July, the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and died after Qurabi Merhi. The demonstrators in Syria, including the outskirts of Damascus on the road yesterday afternoon went to the breaking of the Ramadan evening prayer during the day and ended, said by phone today Merhi.

Qurabi and Merhi, who compiled the names of the dead told Assad that the forces have killed more than 2,400 protesters and arrested thousands of people since the uprising began.

Was another activist, Abdul-Karim Rihawi, head of the League for Human Rights in Syria were arrested yesterday in a cafe in downtown Damascus, said Qurabi.

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The desertions in the army grows, we are now hundreds and soon thousands Harmoush Hussein, a lieutenant colonel, who was from the Army in June was separated and the President of the Syrian Arab Liberation Army, said in a telephone interview today, Syria near the border with Turkey.


European countries a new impetus for a UN resolution against the bloodshed and the United States has imposed new financial sanctions in Syrian banks, and telecommunications. Russia said it was not convinced that the UN resolution is necessary. The EU is considering extending its sanctions against Syria, said EU spokesman Michael Mann of the reporters in Brussels today.

Barack Obama spoke on the phone yesterday with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the situation in Syria. They agreed on the need for immediate cessation of all violence and bloodshed and the actions you take to monitor the Syrian government in response to protests against the government, according to a statement from the White House.



Assad said in this week to the growing criticism of the oppression by the inclusion of some errors of security forces in the early stages of the riot police obliged. Punish a block in the UN Security Council reluctant to Assad - - Diplomatic representatives from Brazil, India and South Africa said that he met in Damascus with the Syrian president, that effort has been avoided in order, said the errors.


The Syrian government has more than 30,000 people, some detained in cages, said Victoria Nuland, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department yesterday.

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U.S. to continue to increase pressure on Assad, spokesman for the White House Carney, Jay told reporters traveling with Obama yesterday in Michigan. Carney reiterated his statement of 10 August that Syria would be better off without Assad, without asking for his dismissal.

As the United States to increase the isolation of Assad, to examine important is committed is whether the statements of the regional powers, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are active or reactive, said Chris Phillips, an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London .



- With the help of Margaret Talev aboard Air Force One, and Flavia Krause-Jackson, Jonathan Salant, David Lerman and Jeff Bliss in Washington and Hayden Jones in Brussels.