2011年5月16日星期一

The Lede: Video of Protests and Clashes in Syria

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Video said to show a late night demonstration in Zabadani, outside the Syrian capital of Damascus, on Friday.

As my colleague Anthony Shadid reports, despite a brutal crackdown in Syria, protesters took to the streets in at least five neighborhoods in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city and a center of the two-month uprising. Activists said protests ranged in numbers from hundreds to thousands, and at least two people were killed when security forces opened fire.

Faced with continuing restrictions on independent reporting inside Syria, activists there again posted video online of what they described as new protests and clashes on Friday.

This video, uploaded to YouTube on Friday, is said to have been filmed during a demonstration in the Khalidiya district of Homs earlier in the day:

Although the security forces were reportedly more restrained than on past days, this video, uploaded to the activist Ugarit News channel on YouTube, is said to have been filmed in Khalidiya on Friday as tear gas was fired at protesters:

This video, uploaded to another Syrian activist channel on YouTube, Sham News, is also said to show a clash on Friday in the same neighborhood:

Protests were also reported in the eastern Kurdish city of Qamishli, where this video is said to have been filmed:

Meanwhile in Baniyas, an oil industry town that was assaulted by the Syrian military last week, a resident told The Times that crowds at Friday prayers were smaller than usual and that there were no demonstrations afterward.

“People are extremely scared,” said Abu Obada, a resident there reached by phone. “They’re worried about snipers and they’re worried about the security forces.”

“Most of the people prayed at home,” he added.

Two very graphic clips posted online on Thursday, which are said to have been filmed just after female protesters in Baniyas were killed by the security forces last Saturday, make the source of that fear quite plain:


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