Bashar Al-Assad, The Country's President, Says He Will Lift Emergency Laws That Have Been In Place For 48 Years.
Inside Story
Last Modified: 19 Apr 2011 06:47
Courtesy Of "Al-Jazeera"
Bashar al-Assad says his country's state of emergency will be lifted by next week. He made the announcement hours after his new cabinet was sworn in.
It came a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in the capital, Damascus, in one of the biggest turnouts since protests began a month ago.
The lifting of the 48-year-old emergency law has been a key demand of the protesters. The current unrest in Syria has been described as the most serious challenge facing Bashar al-Assad and his regime.
Lifting the emergency laws was the latest in a series of concessions made in a bid to satisfy the public.
Other concessions he has made include: Appointing a new cabinet, establishing committees to investigate the recent killing of civilians in the protests and granting Syrian citizenship to thousands of the country's Kurdish minority.
Inside Story, with presenter Darren Jordon, discusses with guests: Walid Saffour, the president of the Syrian Human Rights Committee; Ivan Eland, a senior fellow and director of the Centre on Peace and Liberty, at the Independent Institute.
Friday, April 22, 2011
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The government have to do something to end these protests and also they do not have to kill the protesters they can end this problem through the peace talks only so they have to make a discussion with protesters and kill this problem immediately the forces have killed the protesters they might be thought if they kill protesters then the protests will be end but they dont know that international community will not be calm to see these cruel murders they will do something to end this problem.
These killings are commonly held in Syria what is doing The U.N.? these killings must be stopped and the the Syrian government must apologize for these killings and leave their posts immediately otherwise the U.N. send their coalition forces to the Syria and take necessary action against that cruel government.
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