Syria: Hundreds quit ruling party in protest over crackdown ("We denounce and condemn everything") [View All]

[Turborama]

Source: France 24

An additional 203 members of Syria's ruling Baath party quit on Wednesday, protesting a deadly crackdown on anti-government demonstrations that have gripped the country. It brings the total number of resignations to 233.

LATEST UPDATE: 04/27/2011

AFP - Another 203 members of Syria's ruling Baath party announced their resignation Wednesday in protest at the deadly crackdown on protesters, raising the number to 233, according to lists seen by AFP.

The latest group to step down were members from the Houran region, which covers the flashpoint town of Daraa in the south of the country. Earlier 30 members resigned from the restive city of Banias in northwest Syria.

"The security services have demolished the values with which grew up. We denounce and condemn everything that has taken place and announce with regret our resignation from the party," they said in a signed statement.

"Practices of the security services against our unarmed citizens ... are against all human values and the slogans of the party," they wrote.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20110427-hundreds-resign-from-syria-ruling-baath-party-protest-against-crackdown

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In this photograph taken today, Syrian protesters in Baniyas hold placards which read (at right):
'We will continue peacefully even if you shed our blood with your bullets', and (at left):
'The regime who kills his own people doesn't deserve to stay'.

From Syria Live Blog - April 27: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/live/middle-east/syria-live-blog-april-27