The Night Before Rage Friday

An unarmed people under siege facing horror forces

A protester in the besieged city of Deraa, carrying a baby with "Hungry" written on his forehead.

4 days and counting and the Syrian city of Deraa is still under a ruthless siege by the Syrian army & security forces. Contact with the city is mostly impossible without the help of the few in the city who have cellphones on Jordanian networks or a satellite Thuraya connection. Water and medicine supplies as well as electricity are cut from the city and news have reported the security forces having threatened shop owners all over the city not to sell anything to the people. Many eye witnesses have managed to reach media reporters and human rights activists only to report the very same situation: dozens of dead bodies on the streets and a ruthless siege on the city. Yet the Syrian media is still lying shamelessly, blaming the killings as well as electricity and supplies cuts on what seems to sounds more like aliens than anything else. While the leaders of China and Russia veto against the UN taking any actions to stop the massacre in Syria, this very veto remains a testimony for the Syrian regime's evil, given the dark history of the 2 veto-abusive states.

 Video: Unarmed civilians in Deraa protesting in front of armed forces, calling for "Chivalry, chivalry, army!" and then chanting "The army is on our side!" in attempts to reach the human side of the soldiers. The soldiers still shoot at the protesters.

As with each Friday since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, tomorrow is the big day for the people to have their say. On each Friday in the past month, thousands of people, from all religious and social backgrounds as well as ages and genders, have taken to the streets in peaceful, nonviolent protests against the dictatorship. Tomorrow is the planned "Rage Friday". This week, however, he Syrian regime has taken its measures of armed violence an inhumanity against the unarmed civilians of its own people to a whole new level of insanity, just to keep the people silent in their homes tomorrow. Every Friday this past month, dozens of unarmed protesters were silenced forever with the regime's live ammunition, but what this regime has yet to learn is that each protester murdered has their own voice after their death, calling thousands more protesters to revolt the next Friday.

 

Video: Night sit-in in support for Deraa, in Syrian town of Inkhal, which has witnessed massacres by the security forces against its peaceful protesters in the past month.


4 days of siege on Deraa & many other towns fully occupied by the regime's armed forces, over 650 killed all over the country, several thousands injured and many thousands detained while any army officials or troops refusing orders to open fire on the unarmed civilians face the instant penalty of death themselves and tens of thousands still protest daily, day and night countrywide... Let's see how much these attempts at silencing Rage Friday tomorrow will succeed.

Video: A protest in support of the people of Deraa in Syrian town of Amouda. A banner at the front of the march is saying "Steadfast for Deraa".