remember what happened:
we had small, peaceful demonstrations all over the country. elsewhere, worst thing that happened was a few arrests and a few bruises.
in deraa, that was what would have happened ,,, except that the security forces there over-reacted and used live fire on a small peaceful demonstration. people died.
and when the funerals happened the next day, people were angry ... and the security forces used tear gas and force.
protesters lit the ministry of 'justice' office on fire there -- as well as those of syriatel (which is _not_ as odd as you might think, at least as seen from damascus. who do people hate here? secret police and the phone duopoly ...)
word is about one hundred injured, 10 dead as a high report
deraa demonstrators:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eGLzLk0kHY&feature=player_embedded
the _good_ news is that the regime is at least attempting to measure its response as far as we can tell and has met with derawis about their demands, released arrested juveniles, etc
maybe we'll get more concessions???
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