Syrian Revolution Digest, April 5, 2011
Overnight clashes in Mouaddamiyyah led to daytime protests and tearing down of Assad posters and chants of “The People Want To Topple the Regime.” Despite the conservative nature of Mouaddamiyyah, women participated in droves, often leading the chants.
Douma’s protests also witnessed significant participation by women, a trend said to be a new tactic that will from now on be employed by protesters.
The Damascene suburb of Harasta also witnessed large overnight protests. Kafar Batna and Saqba also witnessed overnight protests leading to several fatalities, including among security officers.
The situation in Kafar Batna deteriorated fast in the afternoon when authorities refused to release the bodies of killed protesters. Clashes ensued, prompting mourners in Douma to come to the aid of their neighbors, passing on their way in the suburbs of Harasta, Sqba and Irbeen and recruiting more protesters.
It seems like a ring of rebellious suburbs is slowly engulfing the capital: to the North Al-Tal, to the East Kafar Batna, Douma, Harasta and Saqba, to the West Mouaddamiyyah and to the South Kisweh. Activists claim that what has long been known as the “Poverty Belt” now has turned into “the Revolution Belt”.
In Deraa, people went on a general strike in solidarity with the people of Douma. In Homs, a morning sit-in in Al-Bayadeh and Deir Baalba neighborhoods developed into a large funerary procession for a Female protester killed in earlier clashes.
The inhabitants of Talbiseh, south of Homs, also witnessed major protests as inhabitants took to the streets, as they have been doing every day since Friday. The town is said to be surrounded by armored vehicles.
From Social Media Networks
Duma
New video of funeral in Duma with intensive public participation
New video of people’s strike in the courtyard of the Great Mosque
Video shows confrontation between Duma’s people and security forces
New video of what happened in the Duma
Video shows how the security forces fled in front of the resistance of young people
Footage of the huge crowds that came out for the funerals
Daraa
Video shows the Declaration of mourning in Daraa in solidarity with the Fallen Heroes of Duma and a full closure of the city shops and services for a period of three days
New video of names and photographs of killed protesters of Alhrak town in Darra
New video of Daraa’s demonstrations shows the magnitude of the use of live bullets and the death of the camera holder
Video of taking down Bashar al-Assad picture at the officer’s club in Daraa
Moadamieh
Video of evening demonstrations and the funeral of Ahmad Damrany, who was killed during protests Video 1, Video 2
Video housands of protesters, took down Bashar and his father Hafez’s pictures and chanted “a traitor whomever kills his people”
Harasta
Video of evening demonstration in Harasta in solidarity with killed protesters of Daraa and Duma
Erbeen
New video of a demonstration
Maart Alnoman
New video of a demonstration
Lattakia
Video shows demonstrators burning the Statue of Hafez Assad in the neighborhood of Salybeh
Homs
New video of the crowds in Talbiseh at a funeral
Selection of TV coverage
France 24 report on the situation in Syria
Al-Quds Al-Arabbi newspaper report about the fire at Lattakia’s prison and the shouts of prisoners for freedom
Aljazeera report on Daraa’s strike and demonstration of Moadamieh
Documentary on the longest civilian strike in the Arab world that took place in Damascus in 1932
Al-Jazeera report about opening Syrian regime a dialogue with the opposition and the Kurds in order to quell the Syrian Revolution
Orient TV, a report of Sarah Faiza commenting on the new Syrian PM
BBC interview with Obaida Nahhas commenting on Syrian Revolution and appointing a new governor of Daraa
Orient TV report on the official Syrian media
This digest is produced in cooperation with Kafa Samtan and the Strategic Research and Communication Center.
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