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This citizen journalist image obtained by the Associated Press on Friday, April 6, purportedly shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in recent shelling in Taftnaz, Syria.
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Demonstrators, with banners, protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Kafranbel, near Idlib on April 6.
Reuters reports -- At least 24 Syrians were killed in violence on Friday and the military tried to halt a refugee exodus, opposition activists said, only four days before a troop pullback agreed by President Bashar al-Assad as part of a U.N.-backed peace plan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shelling had killed at least 10 people, including four rebel fighters, in the flashpoint central city of Homs. Two soldiers died in separate clashes and one person was killed in the town of Douma, it said.
The British-based Observatory, using its network of contacts in Syria, also reported seven civilians and four soldiers killed in clashes and bombardments in Anadan, north of Aleppo.
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It is so sad to see one of the last dictator regimes struggle to survive at expense of it's own people. Forget US coming to aide Syria as done with Ghadaffi. Syria has near state of the art Anti-aircraft defenses, mostly to defend from Israel. So no easy flights to bomb targets and retreat. Large scale bombing to takeout ground sites and radar hamper easy efforts to "Just send in the planes". As each day of Arab spring continues, some Arab countries show reluctance to meddle in neighboring states affairs in fear of reprisal later . As long as UN delays entering with real forces, I.E. Us forces, Syrian dictator will continue till forcibly stopped. JT