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Since March 15, at least 542 people have been killed by Syrian security forces attempting to squash a peaceful popular uprising against the 5-decade-old Baath Party regime, according to Amnesty International.
At a joint appearance in Rome on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad must
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had spoken with Assad on Wednesday and urged him to carry out reforms rather than continue the crackdown, which he said may be violating human rights.
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”Every week we are seeing more people protesting in the streets,” said Beirut-based activist Rami Nakhle, who emphasized that the government must change. “We know there’s no turning back. If we go back, they’ll arrest and kill us in a brutal way.”
A video posted online purportedly showed Syrian soldiers manning a checkpoint Thursday in Saqba. They had set up similar checkpoints in the capital itself, as well as in Baniyas,Homs,Hamaand the otherDamascussuburbs of Duma and Daraya, activists said.
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