Casualties: Bodies are laid out at a cemetery in the Qabon district of Damascus. Opposition activists say at least 20 unarmed men were executed by Syrian troops
Agony Of Syrian Mothers Ordered To 'Choose Which Of Their Children Should Be Executed By Assad's Troops' -- Daily Mail
* President Bashar Assad's paramilitary force, the shabiba, are said to have committed multiple atrocities in Ataman near the southern city of Deraa
* They executed children in front of their mothers, rebels claim
* EU agrees new sanctions to target senior members of Syrian regime, in latest effort to step up pressure on Assad to stop killing his own people
* Arab League's secretary general offers Assad 'safe exit' for him and his family if he steps down
* In Mezzeh district of Damascus, 20 men in pyjamas killed because they were suspected of aiding rebels, opposition activists say
* Death toll rises rises to over 19,000 since uprising began in March last year
Syrian troops asked mothers to nominate which of their children should be executed during an attack on a village in the south of the country, it was claimed today.
President Bashar Assad's paramilitary force, the shabiba, are said to have committed multiple atrocities over the weekend in Ataman near the southern city of Deraa.
Regime forces shelled the village before 250 troops arrived on five buses and rounded up locals who had been huddled in cellars, according to villagers who managed to escape over the border to Jordan.
* Arab League's secretary general offers Assad 'safe exit' for him and his family if he steps down
* In Mezzeh district of Damascus, 20 men in pyjamas killed because they were suspected of aiding rebels, opposition activists say
* Death toll rises rises to over 19,000 since uprising began in March last year
Syrian troops asked mothers to nominate which of their children should be executed during an attack on a village in the south of the country, it was claimed today.
President Bashar Assad's paramilitary force, the shabiba, are said to have committed multiple atrocities over the weekend in Ataman near the southern city of Deraa.
Regime forces shelled the village before 250 troops arrived on five buses and rounded up locals who had been huddled in cellars, according to villagers who managed to escape over the border to Jordan.
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My Comment: Syria is now engulfed in a civil war on a magnitude that the Middle East has not seen for a very long time .... the American invasion and occupation of Iraq included. Expect the violence, retribution, and casualty rates to sky-rocket per day.
* In Mezzeh district of Damascus, 20 men in pyjamas killed because they were suspected of aiding rebels, opposition activists say
* Death toll rises rises to over 19,000 since uprising began in March last year
Syrian troops asked mothers to nominate which of their children should be executed during an attack on a village in the south of the country, it was claimed today.
President Bashar Assad's paramilitary force, the shabiba, are said to have committed multiple atrocities over the weekend in Ataman near the southern city of Deraa.
Regime forces shelled the village before 250 troops arrived on five buses and rounded up locals who had been huddled in cellars, according to villagers who managed to escape over the border to Jordan.
Read more ....
My Comment: Syria is now engulfed in a civil war on a magnitude that the Middle East has not seen for a very long time .... the American invasion and occupation of Iraq included. Expect the violence, retribution, and casualty rates to sky-rocket per day.