Not that anyone took the Arab League brokered deal seriously but:
“Tanks were filmed shelling a civilian neighbourhood in the restive city of Homs within 12 hours of the agreement (see 9.56am). Homs bore the brunt of the day’s violence, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights putting the death toll at 20 by nightfall. The semi-official Syria News website said as many as 72 people had been killed in the city in the previous 24 hours (see 2.52pm). The south-western Baba Amr district was particularly badly hit.”
Assad is apparently free to implement the plan on his own timeline which is correctly interpreted by the opposition as, well, never. But activist plan an array of measures to test, expose really, the regime’s true intentions. Expect this to worsen as they fill the streets in protest, push for the release of political prisoners, and demand the true reform that Bashar al-Assad is incapable of allowing.
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