Syria: Israel has built 'racist' fence

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Syria: Israel has built 'racist' fence

DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Syria told the United Nations Israel has violated U.N. agreements and harmed Golan Heights residents by building a "racist separation fence," Haaretz reported.

A letter, submitted Aug. 8 by Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's ambassador to the U.N., to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,, accused Israel of trying to separate the Syrian-Druze population in the "occupied" Golan Heights by constructing a fence and creating other problems that could affect future negotiations, Haaretz said Monday.

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Syria: Israel has built 'racist' fence

DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Syria told the United Nations Israel has violated U.N. agreements and harmed Golan Heights residents by building a "racist separation fence," Haaretz reported.

A letter, submitted Aug. 8 by Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's ambassador to the U.N., to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,, accused Israel of trying to separate the Syrian-Druze population in the "occupied" Golan Heights by constructing a fence and creating other problems that could affect future negotiations, Haaretz said Monday.

Syria: Israel has built 'racist' fence - UPI.com

 

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Syrian Security Forces Fire on Worshipers as Ramadan Ends
August 30, 2011 — Thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Tuesday after prayers that signaled the end of the holy month of Ramadan, defying a broad deployment of security forces across Syria that has made August one of the bloodiest months of the uprising.

Activists said that at least seven people were killed in southern and central Syria when troops loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad opened fire on worshipers emerging from mosques. The popular uprising in Syria, which started in mid-March, is the most serious challenge to Mr. Assad’s rule that he has faced, and his effort to violently suppress it has drawn international condemnation. Activists say that protests have grown more frequent lately, apparently encouraged by the fall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya.

In an escalation of the international pressure on Mr. Assad, the United States Treasury Department added to its sanctions blacklist of top Syrians on Tuesday, freezing the assets of three prominent officials: Walid al-Moallem, the foreign minister; Ali Abdul Karim Ali, the ambassador to Lebanon; and Bouthaina Shaaban, a senior presidential adviser who has often served as the Assad regime’s liaison to the outside world. In an interview more than three months ago, when Mr. Assad’s regime was expressing confidence that its tactics against the protesters were working, Ms. Shaaban said: “I think now we’ve passed the most dangerous moment. I hope so, I think so.”

The expansion of the United States sanctions was announced a day after European diplomats said sanctions might be imposed on Syrian banks as well as energy and telecommunications companies within a week, along with a planned embargo on Syria’s oil exports. At least 2,200 people have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the unrest, by the United Nations’ count. An activist group, the Syrian Revolution Coordinating Union, said on Tuesday that 551 people were killed during Ramadan alone. The group said 130 others were killed on July 31, the eve of Ramadan, in an attack on the city of Hama, which was also the scene of a ferocious crackdown in 1982.

On Tuesday, four people were killed in Hara and two others in Inkil, two towns in Dara’a Province, according to the Local Coordination Committees, another group of activists who document demonstrations. Dara’a, a poor region in the southern steppe, became a flashpoint of protests after security forces arrested and tortured 15 teenagers there who were caught scrawling antigovernment graffiti on walls. “They don’t want us to have any peaceful day,” Um Mohammad, a mother of two from Damascus, said of the security forces. “We are grieving this Id, and we were not going to celebrate, so they didn’t have to kill more people today,” she added, referring to the feast of Id al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. “Everybody is sad,” said Nashwan, a father of three from Homs who asked that his surname not be published. “No one is celebrating, not even between family members. It is a sad city.”

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