Syrian Crackdown Deepens as Fighting Threatens to Spread
Submitted on June 14, 2011
By Jean Shaoul - WSWS
The brutal crackdown being waged by Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’athist regime against protests in Syria has caused an estimated 10,000 Syrians to flee...into Turkey...Damascus has poured troops, tanks and weaponry into Syria’s northern provinces...It has used helicopter gunships against Maarat al-Numan, after thousands of protesters overwhelmed security officers and burned the courthouse and police station.
