Monday, August 15, 2011

Syrian troops renewing attacks on port - Irish times

The Irish Times - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 MICHAEL JANSEN

Yesterday their crackdown put Syrian troops on port city of Latakia and mass arrests in the town of Houla, North of Homs, third city of the country carried out.

Opposition activists reported that snipers being flee the Latakia Ramel people quarter, said a protest hub and two men were killed.

Human rights organisations report that have at least 31 civilians since Saturday, been killed when the military launched its latest offensive in this area.

Sana, the official news agency denying did respond, reports of shelling and said that troops were pursuing armed groups trying to destabilise the country.

Two soldiers and four armed were killed and 41 troops been wounded, said.

Chris Gunness, spokesman for the UN relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees, to the Irish Times said: "Half of the 10,000 refugees have left in the Commons [Ramel]." God knows where they are going, what they do, or who will look after these defenceless people. "We have violated three confirmed deaths and 12."

He said UNRWA work already had, until the offensive in Latakia started three days ago, but had reduced services for Palestinian camp near Hama and Homs "extreme" as a result of military operations in the area.

Latakia port is a key economic facility that the Government of President Bashar al-Assad is not ready, waive protesters seeking to oust his regime.

After protests in Aleppo, Syria commercial capital Mr Assad replaced the Governor of the northern province of Aleppo, Sana reported.

That daily Spanish, El Pais, showed that in the past month that Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had sent one secret mission to Damascus to offer Mr Assad asylum and propose, a peaceful transition to power. The initiative was rejected.

Separately, the Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar al-ja has ' afari, a letter to the UN condemnation of Israel plan to me, and you create a wall along the border between Syria and Israel occupied Golan Heights.

Israel argues that it is trying, pre-vent Syrians and Palestinians of Golan, who annexed Israel 1981, while Damascus complains that builds the Israel an illegal fence on land owned Syrian Druze inhabitants of the Golan city Majdal Shams is denied access to relatives in Syria and pre-empt negotiations on the fate of the Golan Heights, to infiltrate.


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