Oct. 15, 2011
Protesters are seen in this YouTube video taking part in a demonstration in Daraa, Syria, on Friday. / Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
BY ZEINA KARAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT -- Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers Friday to abandon President Bashar Assad's regime and join a dissident army numbering in the thousands, as the top United Nations human rights official warned of a "full-blown civil war" in Syria, saying the death toll in the 7-month-old crackdown has passed 3,000.
Security forces opened fire on protesters, killing at least 11, including a 14-year-old boy, in what has become a weekly ritual of protests met by gunfire, activists say.
Friday's protests, dubbed Free Soldiers, were in honor of army officers and soldiers who have sided with the protesters and are reportedly clashing with loyalists in northern and central Syrian cities in an increasing militarization of the uprising.
"The army and people are one!" protesters shouted in the southern village of Dael, where most of the deaths occurred Friday. In other locations, some protesters held up banners that read: "Free soldiers do not kill free people asking for freedom."
"I will not serve in an army that destroys my country and kills my people," read a posting on the Syrian revolution's main Facebook page that was meant to encourage defections.
Friday's demonstrations were the most explicit show of support so far by the country's protest movement for the defectors. Faced with gunfire, bullets, mass arrests and a lack of willingness by the international community to intervene militarily, many Syrians now feel the armed dissidents are their only hope to topple Assad's regime.
The Free Syrian Army, as the dissidents are known, are led by an air force colonel who recently fled to Turkey. The group is said to include more than 10,000 members and is gaining momentum as the first armed challenge to Assad's authoritarian regime after seven months of largely nonviolent resistance.
Analysts say that until the rebels can secure a territorial foothold as an operational launching pad -- much like the city of Benghazi was for rebels in Libya -- the defections are unlikely to pose a real threat to the unity of the Syrian army.
Still, the increased military operations have raised concerns that the country may be sliding into civil war.
International intervention, such as the NATO action in Libya that helped topple Moammar Gadhafi, is all but out of the question in Syria. Washington and its allies have shown little appetite for intervening in another Arab nation in turmoil. There also is real concern that Assad's ouster would spread chaos around the region.
Syria is a geographical and political keystone in the heart of the Middle East, bordering five countries with which it shares religious and ethnic minorities and, in Israel's case, a fragile truce. Its web of alliances extends to Lebanon's powerful Hizballah movement and Iran's Shi'ite theocracy. There are worries that a destabilized Syria could send unsettling ripples through the region.
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