Evolution of the Syrian Flag (follow from top right to left). Thanks @ArabSpringFF
From Al Jazeera’s (English) live Blog on Syria:
People continue to take to the streets across Syria, where the uprising has escalated into what some are calling a buregoning civil war. The United Nations says more than 7,500 people have been killed since protests began in March last year.
(Source: everydayimalive)
THE STREETS OF HOMS RUN RED. From Bab Amr, Homs. Shot taken by Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa
Thanks @Basma_
Peoples’ Ambulance
On a wall encircling the American University in Cairo’s downtown campus on Mohammed Mahmoud Street. Throughout clashes in Tahrir Square and surrounding streets, people on motorcycles have delivered wounded protesters to field hospitals for treatment.
Tomorrow’s cover today: getting rid of Bashar Assad requires a united opposition, the creation of a safe haven and Western resolve.
A referendum I can call my own.
The Captain Majed Generation :)
More, however, were related to the content of the speech, to his detachment from reality, to his sophistry and lecturing style, to his bizarre concepts of governance, constitutional reforms and to the mere fact that he said nothing new in the speech, which caused some to say “the man has swallowed his previous speeches and threw them all up together”, or so we thought. (via Olives, Ironies, and civil war « Walls حيطان)
Revolution Until Victory, Kamal Bullata
Excellent cartoon by Ali Ferzat
Thanks @algergawi
The locals of Kafranbel (Idleb) continue to produce the revolution’s most powerful messages.
Translation : “Within 10 minutes (the regime) was able to blame the twin bombing (in Damascus) on Al Qaida - while a urine test takes 30mins!”
Within minutes of the “terrorist” bombing in Damascus, Syrian state TV reported that Al Qaida was responisble. A Full timeline and coverage of the event was broadcast live - it could not have been scripted any better. Bombings go off in Damascus on two days after the Arab LEague monitors arrive and of course, “Al Qaidia” is blamed. Not one body from the dead has been identified. The funerals that were held showed no family members in attendance - just Assad supporters chanting for “Bashar!”. This fake bombing is not unprecedented in Assad regime history - they will do anything and everything, nothing is off limits to them. However, many fear that the dead in the bombings, with many bodies reduced to lumps of flesh, were former protesters that were detained and “missing” ….
Avaaz: 6,200 killed & 69,000 detained in Syria’s crackdown
**617 confirmed killed under torture / More than 400 child casualties**
Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on Syria’s popular uprising has now claimed at least 6,237 victims and seen a further 69,000 people detained over the course of the last nine months, the global campaigning organisation Avaaz can confirm today.
These shocking new figures means that no one has been left untouched with 1 in every 300 Syrians have either killed or detained in the country since the uprising began.
Working with a team of 58 human rights monitors in Syria, in addition to partner organisations on the ground, the global campaign organisation Avaaz has verified the deaths of 6,237 people in Syria between March 15 to December 9 of this year.
Of the 69,000 detained since March, over 37,000 people remain in detention and some 32,000 people have been released, many of them bearing scars from torture and violence.
Ricken Patel, Executive Director of Avaaz, said: “With more than 6,000 dead and almost 70,000 detained in Assad’s brutal prisons, no one can now turn a blind eye to the horror-show in Syria. Russia has gone too far — delaying international action and arming Assad’s death squads. 1 in every 300 Syrians has either been killed or imprisoned. The world faces a choice: it stands by while the Syrian regime continues to slaughter people or it steps up the pressure to force Assad out.”
Clashes between regime forces and armed revolutionaries has lead to at least 917 deaths over Syria’s 9-month uprising, with the city of Homs having seen almost 40% of all deaths and together with Daraa and Hama witnessing the large bulk of civilian casualties.
The figures reveal the alarming conditions under which prisoners are held — Avaaz has verified the deaths of 617 people under torture, including 39 children. Only two people died in detention without having been tortured.
Avaaz’s research, which is consulted on by the UN for its own death toll, adheres to a strict verification process. Each death is confirmed by three independent sources, including a family member of the deceased and the imam who performed the funeral procession.
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