LEBANON: Anti-Assad demo held in Tripoli as Syrians flee to Lebanon

Record ID: 278860

  • Title: LEBANON: Anti-Assad demo held in Tripoli as Syrians flee to Lebanon
  • Date: 2nd July 2011
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LEBANON (JULY 1, 2011) (REUTERS) CROWDS MARCHING IN THE STREET, HOLDING BANNERS SUPPORTING THE OPPOSITION IN SYRIA CROWDS CHANTING RHETORIC AGAINST LATE SYRIAN PRESIDENT HAFEZ AL ASSAD MORE OF THE PROTESTERS MARCHING PROTESTERS HOLDING PICTURE OF SYRIAN MAN WHO THE OPPOSITION SAYS WAS KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES IN SYRIA BANNER READING: ''Friday of solidarity wit
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA7LQQTBHFWAFW9BHS47S8SAZOS
  • Story Text: Hundreds of residents of the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon marched in a protest against the Syrian regime on Friday (July 1) in solidarity with the opposition movement there, calling for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
    Residents of Tripoli have been holding anti-Assad demonstrations every Friday for the past four weeks. Protesters chanted rhetoric against the late Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's father and president.
    In the Lebanese village of Knaisseh, a number of Syrians fled on Thursday (June 30) and Friday (July 1) through an unofficial crossing into Lebanon, many of them coming from the village of Al-Qusair near Homs where a crackdown on anti-regime demonstrators is underway.
    Lebanon's northern border has already seen an influx of Syrians who had escaped a military assault in the border village of Tel Kelakh last month.
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