despite the cutting of all communications from Hama even the satellite ones, we were able to confirm that shells and crimes are committed in the absence of media coverage, which has turned to Mubarak trial who didn’t kill in all his ruling period what Hama had sacrificed during the last 2 months. To this moment we still can’t gather all the details.
But what happened in the rest of cities was not something normal. Despite the demonstrations in allover the country, (Damascus Suburbs, Aleppo, Homs, Deir Ezzor, Idlib), which all united around the chanting for Hama, security forces responded to these demonstrations resulted in 6 martyrs till now and many wounded in the continuous shooting, shelling, and beating by batons.
Likewise, physicians are still being detained for carrying out their professional duty of treating the injured.
Today, the coastal city of Tartous and nearby Jableh fiercely joined the protests while the numbers of participants in Aleppo kept rising. Meanwhile, tensions increased in Qamishli, an ethnically diverse city with Arabs, Assyrians and a Kurdish majority, as well as religious diversity. More and more clashed between security forces and Shabiha on one side and protesters on the other side indicate a further escalation in the region.