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louis vuitton outletReporting from Beirut— Syrian security forces reportedly killed at least 16 people in Syria's third-largest city Tuesday amid allegations that the government of President Bashar Assad was attempting to bolster its widely challenged rule by intensifying the country's sectarian tensions.Also U.S. softens its criticism of Syria Syria security forces attack protesters across the country U.S. accuses Syria of unleashing mob attacks on U.S., French embassies Opposition voices absent from Syrian dialogue Fearful Syrians use coded language to mask protest activities The shootings took place at a funeral procession for victims of the ongoing
louis vuitton outletviolence in the city of Homs, about 90 miles north of Damascus. Amateur video posted to the Internet by activists showed panicked residents fleeing amid the roar of automatic weapons fire.At least 30 people have been killed in Homs since a wave of mass antigovernment protests on Friday.Opposition activists and residents of the city on Tuesday sought to dispel widely circulating rumors that sectarian clashes had overtaken the antigovernment protest movement in their city. A day earlier, it was reported that the bodies of three Alawites had been discovered, sparking sectarian clashes between members of the minority Shiite sect and Sunni Muslims, who have led the four-month uprising against the nation's leading Alawite, Assad.But a lawyer in Homs, speaking on condition of anonymity for
louis vuitton outletfear of retribution, insisted that Syrian security forces rather than protesters may have been responsible for a spate of death squad-style mutilation killings. The victims included two Sunnis and a Christian as well as the three Alawites, he said."The events in Homs were not in any way sectarian in nature," said the lawyer.Instead, protesters accused the government of using the threat of sectarian violence that its own supporters have instigated to unleash attacks on political opponents. A Ministry of Interior source cited by the official Syrian Arab News Agency on Monday accused unnamed groups of "sowing sedition" and warned of a crackdown. "The Interior Ministry will be firm in dealing with these armed and terrorist members and will use all means necessary to reduce their danger and preserve the safety of the homeland and the citizens," the source was quoted as saying.Activists and residents challenged the assertion that ordinary Alawites attacked Sunni neighborhoods in response to the discovery of the Alawite bodies. One witness reached via the Internet said that pro-government Alawite militiamen roamed the streets of two neighborhoods, Wadi Dahab and Nezha, that are home to the minority, calling on their fellow Alawites to come down to fight. "Very few joined them," said a Nezha resident.Even by the standards of a blurry uprising largely inaccessible to international journalists — one pitting a loosely organized protest movement against a collection of the most opaque security forces in the world — the narrative in Homs has been unusual. No names of recent victims have been released, unlike in the past, when both activists and security forces quickly identified their dead.State television and official news outlets, which have rarely forgone opportunities to score propaganda points against their opponents, have also been mum about any sectarian violence in Homs.Two activists attribute the notion of
