{"id":30018,"date":"2012-06-11T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30018"},"modified":"2012-06-11T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:12:26","slug":"syria-violence-dramatically-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/06\/11\/syria-violence-dramatically-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Violence Dramatically Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-061112\/2012_06_11_erlich.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-061112\/2012_06_11_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/syria_massacre.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Violence continues to intensify in Syria this week as government forces bombarded the central province of Homs, and the towns of Deraa and Al-Heffa. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 52 people have been killed since Sunday including women and children. The incident is the latest in a string of clashes that have shocked the world as the uprising that began nearly a year and a half ago drags on. Nearly 80 people were killed in the village of Mazraat al-Qubeir last week, prompting the arrival of United Nations monitors into the area. And in late May, more than a hundred people were killed in Houla, including 34 women and 49 children. What is being called the &#8220;Houla massacre,&#8221; has been linked to pro-government militias. The Syrian government claims Al Qaeda was responsible. <\/p>\n<p>There has been a UN truce in effect in Syria since April 12th but the hundreds of international monitors present in the country have been unable to implement it. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has warned of an imminent civil war, adding that &#8220;the Syrian people are bleeding.&#8221; In fact the UN has counted 10,000 civilians killed by government forces since January 2011. Russia and China have vetoed UN resolutions aimed at transitioning Syrian president Bashar Al Assad out of power, and have particularly decried the use of foreign military intervention. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Syrian National Council, which is considered the opposition&#8217;s main group in exile, has elected a new leader &#8211; a Kurdish professor named Abdelbaset Sieda who has been living in Sweden for the past 17 years. <\/p>\n<p>GUEST: Reese Erlich, veteran freelance foreign correspondent who has traveled widely across the Middle East. He has written a number of books and his latest is, &#8220;Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find more about Reese at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reeseerlich.com\">www.reeseerlich.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence continues to intensify in Syria this week as government forces bombarded the central province of Homs, and the towns of Deraa and Al-Heffa. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 52 people have been killed since Sunday including women and children. The incident is the latest in a string of clashes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}