Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday sent tanks to Syria’s third city Homs to crush a seven-week-old uprising against his government.
According to the Syrian human rights organisation Sawasiah. civilian death toll that has reached 800.
It said at least one person, a 12-year-old child, was killed when tanks and troops charged into the Bab Sebaa, Bab Amro and Tal al-Sour districts of Homs overnight.
“The areas have been under total siege since yesterday.
There is a total blackout on the numbers of dead and injured, Telecommunications and electricity are repeatedly being cut in those districts,” the Observatory said in a statement.
Assad, who has maintained the autocratic political system inherited from his father, began by making vague promises of reforms, but when that failed to stop the protests, he made clear he will not tolerate dissent or risk losing the tight control his family has had over Syria for the past 41 years.
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