Affrontements à حماة Hama : 22 morts – 3-4-5-6 juillet 2011

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Syrie : plus de 20 civils tués et 80 blessés à Hama

metrofrance.com

6 07 2011

Les forces de sécurité syriennes auraient tué au moins 22 civils dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi. La répression se fait de plus en plus violente à Hama, quatre jours après la manifestation géante de vendredi.

Vingt-deux civils tués, peut être plus. Le président syrien Bachar Al-Assad muscle la répression. Après avoir été le théâtre d’une manifestation géante ayant réuni 500 000 personnes vendredi, la ville de Hama a été le témoin d’affrontements violents dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi. « Les chars sont postés aux entrées de la ville, à l’exception de l’entrée nord. Les habitants sont mobilisés, ils ont pris la décision de défendre jusqu’à la mort leur ville pour ne pas permettre à l’armée d’y entrer », indiquait mardi Rami Abdel Rahmane, chef de l’observatoire syrien des droits de l’Homme.

Amnesty international s’indigne de la brutalité de la répression qui s’apparente, d’après elle, à un crime contre l’humanité. De plus « les décès en prison, les tortures et les détentions arbitraires » pourraient relever, toujours selon l’ONG, « de la cour pénale internationale ». Lire la suite…

Hama crisis & Riots

dp-news.com

05 07 2011

HAMA- People in Hama faced a terrible day according to some activists whom sent online news about clashes took place inside Hama city starting early morning on Sunday and are still on. Day Press correspondent said that young residences erupted into street and threw stones at security forces whom roaming the city and arresting people.

Day Press correspondent said on phone that resident’s citizens arranged check points and burned tires along the main roads inside the city of Hama, which still on strike since Saturday. Gunfire has been heard at many quarters inside city.

He said that few protesters had seized a van car belong to the National Company for Distributing Publishers, and they seized its entire ledge and took the car.

Riots in Syria’s central province of Hama is escalating as young protestors blocked roads and sabotaged facilities, private al-Watan newspaper reported Tuesday.

The protesters, mostly aging between 15 and 25, blocked all the roads leading to the Hama city and set fire to trash containers and tires. Some of them broke into a recruitment department and were confronted by guards.

The paper quoted residents as saying that the escalation was triggered by the demonstrators’ resentment with the sacking of Hama’s governor and the arrest of rioters by security agents.

The residents called on the army to interfere quickly to » protect them from saboteurs and to bring back security and tranquility to the city, » it said.

Activists and foreign news media agencies said that security forces have opened fire in a restive central city, injuring an Olympic boxing champion and at least 20 others.

Monday’s shooting happened as Syrian troops and tanks sealed off Hama and blocked the roads leading in, an apparent attempt to crush growing dissent there and retake the city one month after security forces withdrew. About 300,000 protesters held huge protests against the regime in Hama last week, a sign the city was spiraling out of government control.

« There is some kind of a siege on the city. They are closing all roads leading to Hama, » said Syria-based rights activist Mustafa Osso.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, quoting medical sources, said the casualty toll had risen to 10 dead and more than 35 wounded in the city, which has been surrounded by the military.

« Heavy gunfire has been heard in several districts » of Hama, it said.

For his part, Omar Idilbi, a spokesman for the Local Coordination Committees, which track the protests in Syria, said the shots were fired in Idlib province, near the Turkish border. About 60 people made it across, but authorities detained several others, he said, citing witnesses on the ground. Read more…