Syrian Military Extends Hama Assault on First Day of Ramadan
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Syria’s army pressed its crackdown on Hama as thousands took to the streets of Damascus and other cities to protest the killing of more than 140 people by President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces.
On the first day of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, artillery pounded parts of Hama, destroying four buildings, Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Damascus-based Arab Organization for Human Rights, said in a telephone interview. The attack on Hama, one of the bloodiest episodes in Syria’s four-month uprising, will be discussed at the United Nations Security Council today, the U.K. said, with British Foreign Secretary William Hague pledging to seek a resolution condemning the killings.