Throughout most of Syria there was relative calm today, but a major Syrian military raid took place at Aleppo University today, in Syria’s largest city. The raid left four students killed and some 200 arrested.
Aleppo has mostly been quiet during the course of the protests and the subsequent civil war, but Aleppo University has had a considerable number of small protests, and large protests continued throughout today in response to the raids.
Student protesters were presenting today as a turning point in their protests, demanding the ouster of the Assad regime. Still, Aleppo’s protests were far short of the demonstrations seen elsewhere in the nation over the past year.
A ceasefire has been in effect for three weeks, and while violence has continued daily, it is still down considerably from where it was before the ceasefire was negotiated. UN monitors continue to come into the country, in anticipation of negotiating reforms and an eventual settlement with rebel fighters.
Where is the source of this information??? The provided link is wrong and leads to an article about MALI.
It also males not sense that the Syrian military kills four students just for fun when the world is watching and there are only a few compared to pro-Assad demonstrations and the newly reach 60%. for Assad in the elections.
I've been unable to find any reference to the Syrian military killing anyone "just for fun."
As far as "making sense," a lot of things don't in every confrontation. If this happened (and most of what we hear from Syria is from "activists" or regime sources, neither one likely reliable), it may have been overreach by a local commander without involvement by higher headquarters or the regime, or a raid with a purpose gone wrong, or whatever.
RE: "Aleppo has mostly been quiet during the course of the protests and the subsequent civil war"
I do not agree with you on this, Jason. In October 2011 there was the biggest pro-government demonstration in Aleppo counting almost 2 millions of Syrians. There were some trials by anti-government rebels to rouse anti-government feelings in the city and especially university, but the biggest what they could come with was one thousands people in the city's Sakhour district on August 12, 2011. And that's in the city where 80% of population is Sunny Arabs – who are the leaders of anti-government rebellion elsewhere in Syria. That is probably reason why terrorists started to push people of Aleppo "in the right direction". In February of this year there were suicide car bombs exploded outside two security compounds in Aleppo and armed bands attacked security personnel with small arms attacks. In these terror instances 28 people died and over 200 were wounded.
It is obvious that anti-government mercenaries (they are paid by "Friends of Syria" countries according to resolution at the meeting) will never stop trying to get 2.5 millions of Aleppines on the "revolution" bandwagon. They are actually paid to do that so they have to listen to their masters. A big Christian minority in the city will certainly oppose that.