The protest in Syria have been going on since about March 16, 2011. It started when security forces broke up a gathering of 150 protesters in Damascus that were holding pictures up of their imprisoned relatives. Since then the protests have gotten worse then we can imagine, 6,000 people have died due to the protests; mostly my the army and government. The lastest fatalities have been today, February 10, 2012, due to twin bomb blasts hitting the military and security buildings in the northern city of Aleppo. They killed at least 25 and wounded 175. The government has set many new laws trying to stop the protests. There has been many tank invasions in Syria, they have killed at least 400 people. In January they announced that at least 384 children have been killed during the uprising of the protests.
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