JORDAN: Protesters gathered outside the Syrian embassy in Amman to call for the end to the current regime in Damascus

Record ID: 276181

  • Title: JORDAN: Protesters gathered outside the Syrian embassy in Amman to call for the end to the current regime in Damascus
  • Date: 3rd August 2011
  • Summary: AMMAN, JORDAN (AUGUST 2, 2011) (REUTERS) ( ** NIGHT SCENES */ BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY *) VARIOUS OF PROTESTER VARIOUS OF CHANTING PRO-FREEDOM SONGS BANNERS INCLUDING ONE READING: 'GOD..SYRIA..AND ONLY FREEDOM' WOMAN HOLDING CANDLE WITH THE SYRIAN FLAG BANNER READING: 'WE WON'T ACCEPT THAT OUR SISTERS HOMES WILL BE HIT BY ANY ONE AND WE KEPT SILENT' (SOUNDBITE) (Ar
  • Embargoed: 18th August 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Jordan, Jordan
  • Country: Jordan
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAAAAIZKK2EERRULRQ0YXNUVEI4
  • Story Text: Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Syrian embassy in Amman on Tuesday (August 2) to protest the current regime in Damascus.
    "I am here for Syria and the youth of Syria and for the revolution there and I am rejecting what is going on there starting from killing kids and youth," said a Syrian protester named Samer.
    Syrian tanks shelled the city of Hama after nightly Ramadan prayers on Tuesday, residents said, on the third day of an armoured assault to crush some of the largest street protests against President Bashar al-Assad in a five-month uprising.
    The shelling concentrated on the eastern Rubaii and al-Hamidiya neighbourhoods, the Aleppo road in the north and the eastern Baath district, two residents said. A crowd which tried to rally in the central Alamein neighbourhood after prayers marking the end of the daytime fast came under rifle fire by Assad's forces.
    There were no immediate reports of casualties. Rights campaigners earlier said five civilians were killed on Tuesday as tanks thrust further into the central Syrian city of 700,000.
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