SYRIA: Homs residents use their kitchen utensils to make noise at night as part of an ongoing protest campaign against the Syrian regime

Record ID: 280163

  • Title: SYRIA: Homs residents use their kitchen utensils to make noise at night as part of an ongoing protest campaign against the Syrian regime
  • Date: 13th January 2012
  • Summary: CHILD CARRYING THE OLD SYRIAN FLAG MORE OF THE CHILDREN
  • Embargoed: 28th January 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Syrian Arab Republic
  • Country: Syria
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACUXGO3RI7TNWC9CV086V50HI
  • Story Text: Video footage obtained by Reuters shows empty night streets ringing to the sound of pots and pans as Syrian activists and protesters sit in a Homs overnight camp, in the city's main square, in the district of Khalidieh. Additional tents have been erected for newly arrived activists come to join from towns around Homs.
    The protesters want the world and the Syrian leadership to see, and to hear, that their anti-government protest is a peaceful one.
    Asked why he is banging on a pan in the street in the middle of the night one protester says:
    "I'm beating until we get rid of the regime, we want to topple the regime," said one protester in Homs.
    Some of the most fierce anti-regime sentiment has been expressed in Homs since the uprising spread last March from the southern city of Daraa. Human rights groups say it has suffered amongst the heavies death tolls as a result of the military crackdown on protesters .
    A Foreign journalist was killed during a government sponsored visit of Homs on Wednesday (January 11) and a Belgian reporter close to him said he had seen several mortar rounds or grenades had landed in the area. "There was a lot of chaos, blood, hysteria," he said.
    Syria barred most foreign media soon after anti-Assad protests began in March, but more journalists have been admitted since the Arab League sent monitors to check if the authorities were complying with an Arab plan to halt the bloodshed.
    The United Nations says 5,000 civilians have been killed in Syria since the start of the protests last March.
    Syria says it is facing a wave of "terrorism" by Islamists armed and manipulated from abroad who have killed 2,000 members of the security forces. Assad said in a speech on Tuesday that his country was the target of a foreign conspiracy.
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