It's more than 1000 dead in Syria so far, but what happens now?
The fearless people respond by announcing that Friday is in memorial of all the children killed,
calling it "Children's Friday", and they go to the streets again. It takes aljazeera 12 windows to show all the protests around the country:
That 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khatib, who I mentioned in
this post,
has become a symbol:
Quote:
One video showing the mutilated body of 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khatib, who was arrested and murdered by security forces, has horrified the world and inspired more protests across Syria. Activists insist he was tortured and killed by security forces, while the latter deny he was tortured.
Khatib, like the market-seller Mohamed Bouazizi who set himself alight in Tunisia and Neda Agha Soltan whose dying moments were filmed and distributed in Iran, has become a potent symbol to protesters demanding more freedom.
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The rest of that story is Human Rights Watch, documenting what happened in one city. They call their report "We've Never Seen Such Horror" and report on random killing, mowing down of protesters, torturing people and terrorizing the city.
06-04-2011, 01:17 PM
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