Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Lebanese Intellectuals Protest in Support of the Syrian People

Top: Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Despite five months of blistering attacks on dissent, the Syrian regime has yet to score a decisive victory against a pro-democracy uprising determined to bring down the country's brutal dictatorship. President Bashar Assad still has the military muscle to level pockets of resistance, but the conflict has robbed him of almost all international support. Second: Lebanese singer Marcel Khalifa, right, holds a candle during a vigil sit-in held by Lebanese intellectuals and journalists against the Syrian regime to show their support to the Syrian ... protest against the Syrian President Bashar Assad ... Bottom: A Syrian citizen holds a candle as other holds an Arabic placard read:"Every two hours one martyr fall," during a vigil sit-in held by Lebanese intellectuals and journalists against the Syrian regime ... (AP Photo via Daylife: here; here; here and here).

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