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Three hundred killed in single day in Syria, group says

BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in one of the bloodiest days in the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
World leaders meeting at the United Nations have expressed concern at the continuing violence in Syria but are deadlocked over their response to the conflict, which the Observatory says has claimed 30,000 lives since March 2011.

Free Syrian Army fighters move a civilian's body away from the line of fire after being shot by a sniper loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Aleppo's district of al-Midan September 26, 2012. REUTERS/Zain Karam

The British-based organisation, which monitors violence in Syria through a network of activists, said in a report released on Thursday that 55 people were killed in rural areas around Damascus. They included at least 40 who appeared to have been shot in cold blood in the town of al-Dhiyabia, southeast of the capital.
Other activists have put the death toll in al-Dhiyabia as high as 107, blaming Assad's security forces for what they said was a massacre. Video published by activists showed rows of bloodied corpses wrapped in blankets. The victims shown on camera appeared to be male, from 20-year-olds to elderly men.
The Observatory also said 14 people were killed in a rebel bomb attack on a military command centre in Damascus and in an ensuing prolonged gunbattle between rebels and security forces.
Violence in Syria has deepened as the fight against Assad has became more militarised and the president has responded with increasing use of force - including regular air strikes and bombardments against rebel areas.
In the first nine months of the conflict, the United Nations human rights chief said around 5,000 people had been killed. U.N. officials have given up trying to monitor the violence but the Observatory's figures suggest five times as many people have been killed in the second nine-month period.
The Centre for Documentation of Violations in Syria, which is linked to the grassroots anti-Assad Local Coordination Committees, puts the overall death toll at 27,318.
(Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by John Stonestreet)
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opinion: 

I have always wondered, why are there so many killings in Syria, Iraq, Iran and other Arabian countries. Is killing a thing they do there for a living? If they were, that would be ironic. The point here is, there should be a stop to this, if other countries such as Malaysia is an Islamic country that has almost the same ways of Syria or other Islamic countries as well, we can negotiate democratically, why cant they? That has always been a question in my head.

      

Summary:

Syrian Disaster! Upon the change of the Syrian President, army who are loyal to the president, shoots down civillians who might have cross the line. There were over 300 people who were shot and killed