"Leading article: Where winter is freezing the Arab Spring
Thursday, 9 June 2011
President Bashar al-Assad has managed something almost inconceivable in this age of mass communications: by dint of denying foreign journalists entry, he has effectively sealed Syria off from the outside world. But what news emerges veers from the extremely bad to the utterly appalling. Most recent reports focus on the north-western town of Jisr al-Shughour, where 120 people were reported killed. Some, if not most, of the dead may have been troops or members of special forces shot for refusing orders to fire on civilians (or, as another version has it, in order to prevent them from opening fire). "
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