Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Will a Few Thousand Deaths Change Anything?
Monday, August 27, 2012 at 4:53 | James Miller in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 1938 GMT: Syria. The LCC's deathtoll is even higher than the CFDPC's. According to the Local Coordination Committees, 224 people have been killed nationwide by regime forces:
148 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its Suburbs (including 42 martyrs in Zamalka, 39 in a new massacre in Daraya, and 25 in Mouadamiyeh) 27 in Daraa (including 11 in Jiza; most of them are women and children), 12 in Idlib; most of them in Ariha, 10 in Aleppo, 8 in Deir Ezzor, 10 in Homs (including a person who was martyred in Tadamun neighborhood, Damascus), and 9 in Hama.
Dissecting the numbers, it's worth noting that Zamalka is on the other side of the capital as Darayya and Moudamyah.
1927 GMT: Syria. The CFDPC has posted this summary of events in Zamalka, an eastern suburb of Damascus, where battles and shelling have been reported since dawn:
Tanks and helicopters of regime forces began to shell the Zamalka suburb of Damascus early morning causing the collapse of entire buildings on their residents.
So far the number of dead is about 30, among them children, while about 150 people were injured (some of them are in critical condition).
Bahrain, Damascus, Daraa, Darayya, Maryam Alkhawaja, Syria, Talal Mohammad