Tension running high at Syrian-Turkish Border

Along the Syrian-Turkish border

The situation at the Syrian-Turkish border is deteriorating. A massive military presence on the Syrian side causes tension and new waves of refugees heading to Turkey. Activists gathered footage as documentation for the human rights violations in the past few days.

1- June, 21st, 2011 || Hama || The funeral of Mohamad Nasr, 13 years old, who was shot to death by the security forces.

2-June, 21st, 2011 || Homs, Rastan || The effect of the shielding on the schools. The video shows Muhamad Kasenm Tlas school

3- Important June, 21st, 2011 || Homs, Alkhaldieh || The soldiers and the security forces are beating the unarmed demonstrators

4- June, 21st, 2011 || Hama || Mohamad Nasr, 14 years old, was shot in his head by the security forces.

5- June, 20th, 2011 || along the Syrian Turkish borders|| The video shows the circumstance that the Syrians are forced to live in because they had to leave their villages because the army was about to storm them. The woman said that people did not ask the army to enter and it is the opposite. People did not want the army at all. The girl described that they can not go back to Jsr Alshagoor because the army killed everyone who returned. Also, she described how the army destroyed the houses, burned the lands, threatened all the people and shot at the people.

6- June, 20th, 2011 || Aleppo || The security forces are storming the university dorms.

7- June, 20th, 2011 || Homs, Bab Alsbaa || The funeral of Shaker Sahlool who was shot to death by the security forces.

8-June, 18th, 2011 || Douma, Damascus county || A general strike after the funeral of Khalil Eez Aldeen who was shot by the security forces on June, 17th, 2011.

9-June, 17, 2011 || Medan, Damascus || The security forces are stabbing the demonstrators in Hasn mosque.

10- June, 10th, 2011|| Lattakia || The security forces and the army are firing directly at the protesters. The result of this firing 16 people were killed and 40 people were wounded. Some names of the martyrs at this day in Lattakia: Ismaeel Melesh, Fadi Amro, Fadi Rhmani, Khaled Albna, Ibrahim Alsheikh, Maher Alkhateeb, Ez Aldeen Mamdooh Alshreeke, Zaher Najeeb Faido, Zuhair Taibeh, Salem Saidawi.

11- Homs, Talkalakh || The army is storming one of the villages using tanks. The video was upload to youtube on June, 22nd, 2011 but the date of the storming is not known exactly.

Damascus Bureau could not independently verify the videos.