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

Record ID: 278861

  • Title: LEBANON: Anti-Assad demo held in Tripoli as Syrians flee to Lebanon
  • Date: 2nd July 2011
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF PROTEST
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAD6T72TA4HL6TAPQJOA6FKEKGQ
  • 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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