Unprecedented wave of popular protest hits Syria
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DAMASCUS — After Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, a wave of unprecedented anti-regime protests has now hit Syria, a country known for its iron grip on security matters.
“We now live in a new climate, and Syria cannot remain outside the movement” that is sweeping the Middle East, said Burhan Ghalyoun, an Arab studies professor at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
“The regime is mistaken if it thinks it can settle these problems through repression,” Ghalyoun told AFP.
“The security services’ old methods will only pour oil on an already burning fire.”
Syria, which is still under a 1963 emergency law banning demonstrations, has seen a string of small but unprecedented protests demanding the end of the ruling regime of President Bashar al-Assad for one week now..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110324com6.html
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