Secular Regime in Syria Kills Muslims Dozens Daily and the Sunni World is Silent

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No word.
yrian troops detained scores of people in Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia in overnight raids as President Bashar Assad's regime tried to forcefully end a five-month uprising, activists said Wednesday.

Assad dramatically escalated his crackdown on the five-month-old uprising since the start of the holy month of Ramadan in August, killing hundreds and detaining thousands. Despite broad international condemnation - most recently from neighboring Turkey and Jordan - the regime has unleashed tanks, ground troops and snipers in an attempt to retake control in rebellious areas.

In Latakia, a Mediterranean port city that has been subjected to a four-day military assault, security centers were overflowing with detainees, forcing authorities to hold hundreds of other prisoners in the city's main football stadium and a movie theater, said Rami Abdul-Raham, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Detentions centers are packed," he said.

A woman in Latakia died of her wounds Wednesday, two days after she was injured, according to the observatory and The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group. The LCC said a man was killed in the city late Tuesday.

In the northwestern Idlib province, a bullet killed a man as he stood on his balcony, according to observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of people on the ground. Troops were carrying out raids in the area at the time.

The regime's recent military operations have also targeted the central city of Homs, where security forces shot dead one person and wounded three during raids Wednesday, according to the observatory.

In Damascus, the regime focused its raids on the predominantly Kurdish neighborhood of Rukneddine, where security forces detained dozens after cutting electricity in the area, the observatory said. The neighborhood has witnessed intense anti-regime protests in the past weeks.

In Latakia, hundreds of security agents conducted house-to-house raids in the al-Ramel neighborhood, the observatory and LCC said. Al-Ramel is home to a crowded Palestinian refugee camp where many low-income Syrians also live.

The Mediterranean city had been subjected to a four-day military assault that has killed at least 37 people and forced thousands to flee their homes. The U.N. says at least 10,000 Palestinian refugees living in al-Ramel have fled the violence.

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