Mqaible, Lebanon - hundreds of residents of Tel Nimrud in the West of the Syria escaped an intensification sits by the Syrian army slipped across the nearby border with the Lebanon.
"They are terrorizing the city," said Ammar, a 33 year old taxi driver. "People living in fear it y.".
The stories told by refugees frightened of Tel Nimrud highlight the repressive tactics used by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, as he struggles to quell a pro-democracy uprising. against the domination of 40 years of his family.
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Such Nimrud, a town of some 20,000 mainly Sunni residents is surrounded by villages inhabited by the Alawi minority sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, which is the backbone of the Syrian regime.
Anti-Government protests grabbed in such Nimrud in response to the severe repression of the regime against Deraa in Syria of the South, which has become the epicenter of the revolt of six weeks in the South.
As the protests in Tel Nimrud grew, the Syrian security forces flooded the region. Residents said that security forces had attempted to recruit the help of the surrounding villages Alawi, adding a sectarian edge to local tensions.
a€ ? armed tanks sent into the city and set up a blockade on all main roads. A control point, I learned that I must leave because they intended to raze the city to the ground, a €
Images of the event focused on his cell phone showed protesters brandishing banners in English read, "We only want you" and "exit Bashar."
Sheikh Abdel Rahim Akkari, cleric of the city, shown speaking to the crowd and denouncing the accusations of the regime that the demonstrations are agitated by Islamic extremists.
"Where are the Salafi you are looking for." Akkari Sheikh asked for the form. "They are all in your prisons." All we ask is our freedoms. ?
An approximately 2,000 residents, mainly women and children, have fled the city two days earlier Wednesday, walk two kilometres from the border with the Lebanon. Alawi "shabiha" said militiamen at the border, residents and some women were assaulted by a group of military intelligence officers. The harassment of women has stimulated a Syrian border guards Squad, usually composed of locally recruited staff to attack the intelligence and militia officers, they added. A small border post was burned down.
A growing number of accounts is Syrian fighting between security forces, usually involving Sunni soldiers confronting Alawi troops of the elite and intelligence divisions. The residents of Tel said Nimrud that Alaa Shwaiti, a young lieutenant of the city, was executed with a bullet in the head after he refused to open fire on demonstrators in Homs, a town in the North of the Syria and one of several homes where the regime plagued hard against the signs of dissent.
a€ ?He phoned his brother in Tel Nimrud until he died and said that he feared he would be executed for disobeying the order, a
According to residents, the Syrian army said Lieutenant Shwaiti, killed by rebels and intended to bury them in Tel Nimrud with military honours. But residents refused and buried the officer themselves on Saturday.
Contacted by cell phone, a man in Tel Nimrud said that the funeral of the Lieutenant Shwaiti fair took place in a strong presence of the army and security.
? we are under siege now, a €
During this time the Syrian army tanks shelled the old quarter of Deraa and sent more reinforcements to the region, which has been besieged for nearly a week, an eyewitness told Associated Press.
Residents remained defiant: unable to leave their homes, they sang "God is great!" to each other of their Windows in the evenings, shocked the security forces and raise the spirits of the other.
Deraa without water, fuel or electricity since Monday, when the regime sent troops backed by tanks and a sniper to crush the protests seeking to put an end to the authoritarian regime of Assad.
On Saturday, Syrian troops killed four people by capturing a mosque which has become a focal point for demonstrators in Dara, and the security forces in Damascus kept dozens of women walking on the Parliament to urge Assad to end his crackdown on the uprising.
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