{"id":22421,"date":"2011-04-28T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22421"},"modified":"2011-04-28T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T10:24:14","slug":"syria-government-crackdown-results-in-mass-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22421","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Government crackdown results in mass casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/syria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian<\/a> regime has launched a massive crackdown against protestors demanding political reform in the country. The killing of protestors in <a title=\"The Independent: Robert Fisk: Shifting blame to Lebanon may be the method in Assad's madness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/fisk\/robert-fisk-shifting-blame-to-lebanon-may-be-the-method-in-assads-madness-2274436.html\" target=\"_blank\">14 separate towns<\/a> on April 22 heralded a dramatic escalation in violence. In an attempt to pre-empt further protests, the <a title=\"Guardian: Syria's crackdown on protesters becomes dramatically more brutal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/apr\/25\/syria-crackdown-protesters-brutal\" target=\"_blank\">government ordered<\/a> (25 April) tanks to move in to the city of Deera, which has been at the centre of unrest in the last few weeks. Human rights groups have estimated that <a title=\"New York Post:  Syria sends in reinforcements for opposition crackdown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/international\/syria_sends_in_reinforcements_for_cgiiDF7YmZw0pAC6iGKKuK\" target=\"_blank\">400 people <\/a>have been killed by security forces since protests began five weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian regime has launched a massive crackdown against protestors demanding political reform in the country. The killing of protestors in 14 separate towns on April 22 heralded a dramatic escalation in violence. In an attempt to pre-empt further protests, the government ordered (25 April) tanks to move in to the city of Deera, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3402,7391,2449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22460,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22421\/revisions\/22460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}