Posted on 12/24/2011 9:03:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Syrian pro-democracy activists plan to rally after midday prayers Friday against an Arab League observer mission they say will stall tougher action against the government over its opposition crackdown.
An Arab League advance team arrived in Syria Thursday to oversee a plan to end nine months of bloodshed as the opposition accused regime forces of "massacring" hundreds in two days.
But using the slogan "Protocol of death, a licence to kill", activists called on Facebook for nationwide protests against the mission.
Opposition leaders have charged that Syria's agreement to the mission was a mere "ploy" to head off a threat by the Arab League to go to the UN Security Council.
"We call on the Arab League to refer the matter of the crisis in Syria to the UN Security Council," said Omar Edelbi, spokesman for the Local Coordination Committees, which have been driving the protests on the ground.
He called the observer mission "another attempt by the regime to bypass the Arab initiative and empty it of its contents".
Even as the advance team arrived there was no let-up in the killing, with activists reporting at least 21 more people dead, and clashes between defectors and troops in the flashpoints of Homs and Idlib.
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Syrian pro-democracy activists plan to rally
Pro democracy? hear the committy that rund the protesters consist of two (2) Christians, one tribal leader and 15 Islamists, so you think this group will lead to democracy?
just check out how it is working out in Egypt and Libya and all the other muslim revolutions and their democracy movements
Thanks for the advice.
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