Beirut - a Syrian boxer who won a medal at the Olympic Winter Games of 2004 was injured with at least 20 others Monday under the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad has swept through several towns and cities to crush an uprising was, said activists.
Nasser al-Shami, a champion who shared bronze in Athens, was in stable condition after being hit by pellets shotgun in the city of Hama, said Rami Abdul Rahman, the Syrian human rights observatory Director London-based. Abdul Rahman said he had spoken to the physician who treated the athlete.
Tanks and troops Syrian Hama closed and blocked roads, in an apparent attempt to crush the growing dissent and return to the city in a month after the withdrawal of security forces. About 300,000 demonstrators held huge protests against the regime at Hama last week, a sign that the city has escaped all control of the Government.
"There is a kind of a seat on the city." "They close all the roads leading to Hama," said based on the Syria of the human rights activist Mustafa Osso.
Hama, who has a history of Islamic militancy against the Assad regime, there is a suppression of Government almost three decades. In 1982 deceased ordered Assad father and predecessor, Hafez Al-Assad, his troops to crush an uprising by Sunni fundamentalists, killing between 10 000 and 25 000 people, human rights groups say.
Monday, said activists also Syrian security forces opened the fire on the people flee in nearby Turkey, injuring a mother and her young son.
Thousands of Syrians have refuge in refugee camps in Turkey, a source of deep embarrassment to Damascus. To the South, on the outskirts of Damascus, of Dumair, armoured tanks rolled in after that all communications were cut, said an activist in the region.
The activist, who spoke condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said soldiers and police officers from the patrol at random were all men from teenagers to people 60s containment.
The revolt against Al-Assad has lasted almost four months despite a deadly government crackdown led to international condemnation and sanctions. Al-Assad is the most serious challenge to his family of four decades of domination by Syria.
Activists say the security forces have killed more than 1 400 people - most of them in hands naked demonstrators - since mid-March. The regime does toll "armed" and the conspirators to blame for the unrest.
The Syria has banned almost all foreign media and the media attention limited, making it almost impossible to independently verify events on the ground. But, evidence, including interviews with refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries, provide a brutal crackdown on the protest movement.
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