Snipers shoot marching mourners in Syria

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LA Times:

Syrian security forces opened fire Saturday on thousands of angry mourners pouring into the streets in politically charged funeral marches for some of the scores of people shot dead at nationwide mass demonstrations a day earlier, according to witnesses and amateur video footage posted online.

At least 107 people were killed in Friday's violence, according to a list of names compiled by a human rights activist.

Mourners appeared somber but defiant, chanting, "The people want the overthrow of the regime" as they marched down narrow streets holding coffins aloft, some raising clenched fists, as shown on video footage uploaded to the Internet.

A witness who gave his first name as Ihsan told The Times that snipers in civilian clothes positioned on rooftops in the Damascus suburb of Duma opened fire on the mourners, killing at least four, but the account could not be independently verified.

"We are living in a real war," he said. "We haven't been able to reach the graveyard yet because snipers and security forces in uniform are shooting at the funeral procession from rooftops and the streets."

A general strike had been called in Duma in a furious response to Friday's deadly crackdown by security forces, and protesters expected new assaults.

Friday's protests, coinciding with Good Friday, will be remembered as a bloody and perhaps landmark day in Syrian history. Mass demonstrations across the country's cities, towns and villages were met with indiscriminate gunfire by Assad's security forces, hardening the divide between a regime determined to retain power and increasingly fearless protesters demanding the overthrow of the government.

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The government continues its violent response against the people of Syria who are looking for regime change. It does not seem to be accomplishing the object if making the people fear crossing the government.

The UN may have to impose a no sniper zone in Syria.

The Washington Post denounces the Obama administrations passive response to mass murder by the Damascus entity.
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