Beirut: Syria’s Present Bashar Assad admitted that the country’s security forces have made mistakes during the uprising against his regime.
He said that poorly trained police officers made mistakes during the crackdown on protestors that has killed more than 850 people over the past two months.
President Bashar Assad’s comments, carried Wednesday in the private Al-Watan newspaper, marked a rare acknowledgment of shortcomings within Syria’s powerful security agencies. Assad said thousands of police officers were receiving new training.
But there was no sign the crackdown was letting up. On Wednesday, a human rights activist said Syrian troops have used machine-guns in an attack on a neighborhood in the central city of Homs.
Also Wednesday, the opposition’s calls for a general strike to protest the regime appeared to go unheeded. Schools, shops and other businesses were open in the capital, Damascus, and other Syrian cities amid a tight security presence.
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