Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad clung to power Friday as Syrians demonstrating for political liberty and their other long-denied human rights were gunned down by totalitarian mercenaries.
Dozens of people have been killed over the past week around the southern city of Deraa, medical officials have said, and there were reports of more than 20 new deaths on Friday, during demonstrations that would have been unthinkable a couple of months ago in this most tightly controlled of Arab countries. ...Inspired by successful uprisings against authoritarian rule in Egypt and Tunisia, the mourners chanted for “Freedom.”
There is evidence the pro-democracy protesters are being shot by Iranian thugs whom Assad has hired to frighten the masses back into submission. It’s interesting how so many more Arabs, having witnessed the liberation of Iraq, now want a taste of libery.
Meanwhile in Iraq, Iraqis freely exercise their right to demand improvements to their elected government. Yet no one but the stupid friends of Moktado al-Sadr (who coincidentally lives in Iran) calls for the return of dictatorship.
Maybe every sane person really wants to be free.
Frank Warner
I have also heard suggestions that there is Iranian involvement without the consent of the Syrian government.
Posted by: jj mollo | March 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Syrian government resigns
Posted by: CJW | March 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM