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 "Good Friday Massacre"

4.01: The Canadian Labour Congress joins the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in calling on the Syrian authorities to respect fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to form and join genuine trade unions to represent their interests. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime must immediately stop its violent repression, open a dialogue with its opponents, and allow the development of legitimate civil society organizations.

4.12: London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported that the Syrian ruler Bashar Assad expressed his "regrets over the death of protestors during a Sunday anti-regime demonstration"...

4.21: Already 200 demonstators/activists were killed since the beginning of the protests... And Bashir Al-Assad suspended the 'Emegency Law', to "protect the human and political rights of the Syrian people"...

4.22: The STATE TERROR gets worse... Until midnight more than hundred protesters were killed by 'security' forces!!

4.24: Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said today, as popular opposition to authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad mounted following the bloodiest attacks on pro-democracy protesters.

Until last night, 12 people were confirmed dead in the towns of Moadamiya, Douma and Alabadi, and the Damascus suburb of Saqba-Gota, said Wissam Tarif, who heads a Syrian human rights organization. On the previous day, already dubbed Great Friday by some Syrians, 109 people died and many more were injured, he said. According to the German 'left-alternative' newspaper die tageszeitung at least 120 people were killed during the so-called Good Friday Massacre.
The death toll rose to around 350, with scores of missing, since the demonstrations broke out on March 18, rights campaigners said.
 
But the (f*cking) Assad - possibly he'll do whatever he wants - but he'll not be successful...
Today's Haaretz wrote the following: If Assad does not use the same murderous force against the protesters that his father Hafez Assad used against tens of thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama 30 years ago, he will not survive.

Related articles:
☞ 3 prominent Syrians resign in protest against deadly crackdown (WaPo, 4.24)
☞ Assad regime is indeed threatened by Syria protests (Haaretz, 4.24)
☞ Outrage follows Syria security crackdown (Al-Jazeera, 4.23)