Syrian Revolution News Round-up :Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Syrian Revolution News Round-up                    ملخص أحداث الثورة السورية Day 429: Wednesday, 16 May 2012                       اليوم ٤٢۹: الأربعاء، ١٦ أيّار/مايو ٢٠١٢

Revolutionaries Protect UN Observers from Syrian Army Attacks Summary of Events Revolutionaries of the city of Khan Sheikhoun in the province of Idlib secured the delivery of the six UN observers who were targeted by regime forces yesterday to a UN convoy. The revolutionaries intervened to protect the observers after regime forces targeted their convoy after committing a massacre in their presence. Regime forces continued to shell Khan Sheikhoun after the observers left triggering a massive exodus. UN observers visited the Damascus suburb of Kesweh for less than five minutes, and also visited the towns of Korin and Fayloun in the province of Idlib where regime forces opened AA gun fire at residential areas in their vicinity. Assad’s forces killed at least 40; 26 fell in the province of Homs, including 21 in the massacre of the neighbourhood of Shammas in the city of Homs where regime forces targeted unarmed civilians. The regime’s violations of the cease fire continued, as they conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps in the town of Salhiya and opened heavy fire in the city of Boukamal in the province of Deir Azzour, raided the neighbourhood of Remaila in the province of Raqa under heavy fire, opened random heavy fire on the city of Idlib, conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps in the Ammaliya area in the city of Aleppo, and shelled the city of Rastan in the province of Homs. In the province of Hama, regime forces raided the village of Kafar al-Toun and the city of Latamna amid heavy fire, shelled the town of Shizar, and opened random heavy fire in the cities of Halfaya and Hama. In the capital, regime forces opened heavy fire in the neighbourhood of Jobar, conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps in the suburbs of Htaitet al-Turkman and Deir al-Asafir amid heavy fire, shelled the suburbs of Sergaya and Daraya, and opened heavy fire in the suburb of Douma. Demonstrations continued across Syria’s universities, as students demonstrated at the Agricultural Engineering faculty in the University of Deir Azzour, the Science faculty of the University of Raqa, and the Mechanical Engineering faculty of the Aleppo University causing the expulsion of 65 students and the pursuit of many more by security personnel.