13.05.2011                      09.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 24 des Omer

Syrien:

Syrian troops circle Hama, disperse 1st big Aleppo rally

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Syrian forces on Thursday surrounded Hama, the scene of a bloody 1982 crackdown by the father of President Bashar Assad, and dispersed a rally in the second city of Aleppo, in the latest signs that the nearly two-month-long unrest could turn into a drawn-out, bloody revolt.
The Associated Press quoted a human rights activist saying troops backed by tanks had deployed around Hama, a central city in which then-president Hafez Assad killed some 20,000 people in putting down a Muslim Brotherhood insurrection….