Syrian warships and tanks shell port city of Latakia (videos)

Activists are reporting that 21 people have now been killed in Latakia. On Saturday, about 20 tanks and armored personnel carriers rolled into this port city and began a military operation to crush any and all protests. On Sunday, both warships off the coast and tanks opened fire on the city in two residential districts.

The Telegraph reported: While gunships blasted waterfront districts, ground troops backed by tanks stormed several neighbourhoods. “I can see the silhouettes of two grey vessels. They are firing their guns and the impact is landing on al-Raml al-Filistini and al-Shaab neighbourhoods,” a witness told the Reuters news agency by phone from the city.

The White House issued a statement on Saturday detailing a telephone conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdullah. The two of them have demanded that Bashar Al Assad’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters “must end immediately.” Both leaders “expressed their shared, deep concerns about the Syrian government’s use of violence against its citizens” and they “agreed that the Syrian regime’s brutal campaign of violence against the Syrian people must end immediately, and to continue close consultations about the situation in the days ahead.”

Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Aug 14, 2011

Tanks and gunboats ‘fire on Latakia’

Syrian gunboats have been pounding the city of Latakia, killing dozens, activists say. Navy vessels were seen off the port on Sunday, a day after tanks shelled residential areas. Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from Ramtha, on the Syrian border with Jordan.

Published on Aug 14, 2011 by Euronews

‘Deadly naval and tank attack’ on Syrian port city

A Syrian naval and tank assault to crush dissent in a northern port city has killed at least 23 people, according to human rights activists. Amateur footage is said to show the scene in Latakia in a further sign that the military campaign against pro-democracy protesters is intensifying. Other pictures, said to be from the besieged city of Deir al-Zor, show stick-wielding men beating civilians. Syrian authorities have expelled most independent media, making it difficult to verify events on the ground.

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Amateur video of Syrian violence

Amateur video posted on social media sites purports to show civilians being beaten and a home destroyed by security forces in Deir Al Zour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUJC-pRiMM

Uploaded by boazgu9 on Aug 13, 2011

Tanks Enter Syria’s Latakia 13/8/11

Early on Saturday, Syrian army deployed tanks in the seaside town of Latakia which has seen widespread protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Uploaded by Souria2011archives on Aug 14, 2011

Syria Tanks Prowl Latakia Waterfront – Dictator Assad Rampages & Ransacks City

There are no terrorists in Latakia and the population is totally unarmed; however, Dictator Assad is determined to crush the non-violent pro Democracy movement so the city is now being surrounded, invaded and bombed as punishment for rising up and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its residents will be beaten, arrested, tortured and possibly killed either today in the streets and in their homes, or in one of the makeshift prisons that the Regime has set up to hold the 20,000 political prisoners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaRFbnWXA0k

References

Oye! Times – Aug 13/2011

Syria: Assad is going to lose Turkey (videos)

Video: The Syrian army shell a mosque in Deir al Zour. A minaret takes many hits and the top part of the structure falls to the ground.

Oye! Times – Aug 12/2011

Syria: 16 dead on Thursday, 2 already on Friday

Dawn raids left a woman dead after tanks and soldiers launched an assault in Khan Sheikhon in the northern province of Idlib. A man was also shot and killed after fleeing security forces in the town of Saqba, a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. News is that 16 people were killed across Syria on Thursday.

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