– Syrian security forces killed at least seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, as thousands of protesters poured out of mosques and marched through cemeteries yesterday at the start of Eid ul-Fitr, a holiday when pious Muslims traditionally visit graves and pray for the dead. The three-day holiday marks the end of the holy month of , a time of introspection that many protesters had hoped would become a turning point in the 5-month-old uprising. Instead, the government crackdown on dissent intensified and the conflict has become a bloody stalemate. “They can shoot and kill as much as they want, we will not stop calling for regime change,” an activist in told The Associated Press by…
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