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331: SEVERAL PRISONERS KILLED IN PRISON RIOT IN SYRIA – Syrian Military Police Opened Fire on Inmates Protesting Poor/Squalid Conditions
24 July, 2008

SEVERAL PRISONERS KILLED IN PRISON RIOT IN SYRIA – Human Rights Group Claims Military Police Opened Fire on Inmates Protesting Poor Conditions

CBS-NEWS via Yahoo! News Alerts Saturday 5th July 2008

DAMASCUS: The London-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported on its Web-site that several prisoners were killed and several more wounded in a riot at the Sidnaya Prison approximately 30km north of Damascus, but indicated there was no clear way to get to the bottom of the incident. Islamist prisoners had staged a protest earlier in the day over poor conditions at the prison. The group reported that military police opened fire on the prisoners. The head of Syria's National Organization for Human Rights told the Press by telephone that he could see smoke billowing from the prison and prisoners standing on the roof. He added that ambulances were ferrying the wounded to the hospital. There has been no official word yet from the Syrian government, which usually does not comment on human rights issues.

My comments: Like the Covert Nuclear Reactor at Al Kibar which the Israeli Air Force destroyed on Thursday 6th September 2007 and which Syria later – and today – deny it ever existed, the above incident will also go down the drain of iniquity, followed by deleting and denial. Imagine the Israeli Air Force flying all the way to Al Kibar in Syria to destroy a building just for fun! Read my posting: 275

REUTERS ALERT-NET via Yahoo! Alerts 22nd Jul 2008

BEIRUT: A New York-based Human Rights Watch has called on Syria to order an independent inquiry into the above deadly incident and the use of lethal force by the military police, and to disclose the victims' names. The Syrian authorities have said very little or nothing at all about it. They said it had been put down by the next day, but the jail remains surrounded by security forces; visits are banned, and a nearby hospital is also off limits. Human rights organisations in Syria have reported that as many as 25 prisoners were killed, and that they had obtained the names of nine inmates thought to be dead. One member of the military police was also confirmed dead following his burial near Aleppo. Syria has been ruled by the Baath Party since 1963 and holds thousands of Islamists and other political prisoners; including writers and human rights advocates – and not a few Lebanese.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; we all saw how the so-called enemy, Israel, treats or treated its prisoners, even convicted callous and brutal murderers like Samir Kuntar, who re-appeared on the Lebanese political and terrorist scene after 3 decades of being a prisoner in Israel, looking robust – he had been well-fed and well-looked after and taken care of; married and divorced  – with a degree in social and political science – he had been well-educated, too – and all at the expense of Israel and Israeli tax payers. And we have seen how the so-called sister and friend, Syria, treats its prisoners – packs them into cells like sardines in tins, in the most terrible and squalid conditions, with no facilities or amenities; and either starves them or tortures and mutilates them to death, and if they dare to complain or whine or protest, they are shot to death.

From what I saw of the way the Lebanese Army mishandled the poor protesters – parents and family members and friends of Lebanese prisoners in Syria who only wanted to intercept that fat, over-fed, bloated Syrian Hog, Walid Moallem, to hand him a letter begging for the release of their loved-ones – I wonder whether the Lebanese Army hadn’t been trained by or taken lessons from the Syrian Army! I also wonder why they hadn’t shot the protesters outright! BY GOD! Read my posting: 330 and my next posting: 332

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