Syria Protests; Shocking Videos Show Friday's Bloody Crackdown

Syria's activists called for the largest protests since demonstrations began a month ago, and reports indicate that huge crowds took to the streets to call for President Bashar Assad's ouster. However, the government responded with a violent crackdown that left at least 75 people dead.

Syria has expelled journalists and the government tightly controls access to the protests. However, dramatic videos have surfaced on Facebook and YouTube showing the horrifying violence taking place while tens of thousands continue to march.

Below, find some of the videos circulating of the protests and violence that rocked Syria on Friday. Please note, some videos are extremely graphic.

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This video reportedly shows Syrians fleeing violence, including an image of a young boy being suffering from a devastating head wound.

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This video reportedly shows Syrians fleeing violence, including an image of a young boy being suffering from a devastating head wound.

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[oregon60]

12:28 PM on 04/27/2011

Where is Obama on this one 700 killed and the silence from the White House is deafening?
Oh right no oil!

[checkmoot]

11:35 AM on 04/27/2011

What's shocking ? I see a couple of hundred people running around, but no soldiers. The child with the bloody head that was presented to the camera might be shocking if we knew how he was hurt. On CNN the other night, while the head that talks said that troops were killing anyone that moved, a video was playing behind him showing people lining the streets while a tank rolled by. No one was shooting. Maybe some truth mixed together with propaganda. Who knows ?

[amaboss52]

05:06 PM on 04/26/2011

This is so sad to watch, but look what our Founding Fathers and the militias of the Revolutionary War went through to achieve what we have achieved. It wasn't easy and it wasn't bloodless. We fought like he11, lost many many people, but we did it. So can they, but seeing children killed, seeing anyone killed is a sad fact of earning your freedom my heart goes out to them.

[ThinkFree111]

03:01 PM on 04/25/2011

This is horrible. We use our operatives to incite riots. The rioters do our bidding and we allow them to be slaughtered by the government we want to be overthrown.

[Hydroponicyeah]

08:35 AM on 04/25/2011

Western civilization FTW.

[dharmadhatuzoo]

08:01 AM on 04/26/2011

Let's review what Syria is:

-Constitutional state: Western
-Secular state: Western
-Islamic and Christian culture: Western
-Brutal dictatorship: It is demonstrably true that the President of the US, for example, doesn't and indeed cannot (legally) have people killed for demanding that he step down from power. However, any number of dictators or autocrats in Fascist or Communist countries have been products of and participants in Western civilization.

So let's not bring our ethnocentrism into this.

[Afterschool Carl]

03:05 AM on 04/28/2011

ethno..what??? Buddy, I'm an American. I'd appreciate it if you'd keep the words small and the dinner portions large. Thanks!

[Ken White]

12:48 AM on 04/25/2011

Unless governments in that area sever their ties to religion they will never progress. Religion is poison to government. Poison. That's why whenever some stooge like Jim DeMint says that we need more God in government people should run from him as quick as possible.

[Hydroponicyeah]

08:37 AM on 04/25/2011

Syria has a secular government. In fact the rebellion everyone likes to talk about, that they put down in Hama in which killed 10-20,000 people, was a Muslim Brotherhood uprising back when they were still militant Islamist fundamentalists.

[factsaboutchina]

12:36 AM on 04/25/2011

Let the savages kill one another. Unless we're attacked, don't get involved.

[factsaboutchina]

12:33 AM on 04/25/2011

Democracy and the attaining of Democracy is a violent procedure. Illiberal societies are going to have a rough road ahead if they chose to abandon centuries old customs of authoritarianism, theocracy and military dictatorships. Democracy isn't far all - culture and custom must be taken into question. Some societies are not far enough along in the evolution of civilization and civility to allow for the people to garner more freedoms.

[cla65]

06:40 PM on 04/24/2011

Move along folks. Nothing to see here. Just ask BO.

[Badfinger1]

10:12 AM on 04/25/2011

..."Democracy can be a sloppy thing"....D.Rumsfeld

[aFtersootdamP]

02:38 PM on 04/24/2011

How can this be a shock to anyone? syria is part of the terrorist axis with iran and turkey. When has any of these countries shown respect for their dissidents? assad's father killed tens of thousands over the course of his rule and his son has not fallen far from that twisted tree. Another example of the paucity of the obama regime's foreign policy. They have destabilized the ME and thousands will die as a result.

[Rainmaker84]

06:31 PM on 04/24/2011

How has Obama destabilized the Middle East?

[ThinkFree111]

09:59 AM on 04/25/2011

He is openly weak for one. Weak leaders provide destabilizing environments without even trying. Obama as the leader of a once super power, has taken america from global leader to laughing stock.

[ixington]

09:49 PM on 04/24/2011

Turkey? Really.

[Yank in France]

06:33 AM on 04/24/2011

TIME OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The way the Syrian events are being reported in the Western media resembles more and more the post-war build-up to the Iraq War.

Like most everyone here, I also detest the Assad regime in Syria and its cruel methods.

But are all the demonstrators goods and all those who support the regime bad?

Are people aware that the US has been working hard to foment unrest which US taxpayers are funding?

And what about the Christians in Syria? Do you know that they represent fully 10% of the population, and that they have been protected from Muslim extremists, many of whom are now demonstrating under the banner of freedom today?

Or have my fellow Americans concluded that only "Christians" in America count?

Check out this article in today's Washington Post:

"DAMASCUS, Syria — In the days leading up to Easter Sunday, Syria’s Christian community should have been busy preparing. This year, however, signs of festivities were hardly visible....
Meanwhile, fear is mounting among the nation’s Christians that the uprising that has rocked this tightly controlled country over the past month will bring them only misery.
For decades, the government of President Bashar al-Assad has protected Christian interests by enforcing its strictly secular program and by curbing the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood. In recent years, Assad has visited the town of Maaloula and other Christian communities to pray and pass on messages of goodwill. At Christmas, he addresses Syria’s Christians, carrying similar tidings. Assad is himself from the minority Alawite sect, a branch of Shia Islam, and many Christians feel they can relate to him.
Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria’s population, have largely stayed out of the anti-government protests, fearing what change could bring. Many are wealthy and could have much to lose if the uprising succeeds. Christians also occupy a disproportionately high percentage of senior positions within the government and tend to work in the educated professions as doctors, dentists and engineers."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/for-syrian-christians-protests-are-cause-for-fear/2011/04/21/AFtNd3VE_story.html?hpid=z2

[GZLives]

11:51 AM on 04/24/2011

"Are people aware that the US has been working hard to foment unrest which US taxpayers are funding?"

Evidence?

[Yank in France]

01:30 PM on 04/24/2011

Source for comment about US government aid being funneled to Syrian rebels:

"Newly released State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that the State Department had funneled millions of dollars secretly into funding Syrian dissident groups. The effort included some $6 million given to the Movement for Justice and Development."

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/04/18/us-secretly-funding-syrian-dissidents-cables-show/

[GZLives]

06:02 PM on 04/24/2011

We recently reopened our embassy in Damascus and sent a new ambassador. Senator Kerry recently went to speak with Assad. Former Senator Mitchell went to see him as well. And Israel has had a stable border for decades and there's no sign the Israelis are very interested in changing the devil they know ...

[hazyafternoonsunshine]

02:16 AM on 04/24/2011

Prayers for Syria. May you shake the yoke of tyranny, and emerge free. Many of our forefathers also shed their blood at the hands of a tyrant for their freedom and ours. Ours was a prolonged conflict. We had the aid of France in our time of need, and I hope that you have an ally to call for help. Having friends is handy during times of need. I hope you see victory soon. Peace and blessings of freedom to you.

[aFtersootdamP]

02:49 PM on 04/24/2011

Do you have any concept of history? There is no parallel between the American revolution and the current chaos in the ME. In the ME, the yoke of tyranny has never changed, just different tyrants holding the reins of power.

[jcfernand]

10:54 PM on 04/23/2011

This video is graphic porn. If it were an American child we would never dream of posting it, but because he happens not to be, then it is somehow ok

[nopaytaxes]

10:03 PM on 04/23/2011

Where are the airstikes? where are the preditors? where are NATO attacks attack ...Hilary Rodman Clinton

[CubnKira]

11:37 PM on 04/23/2011

Remember, Hillary said that Assad was a 'reformer'. She is a joke as Sec. of State.She met a few dignitaries as First Lady, that is not enough gravitas for Sec. of State.

[nopaytaxes]

11:09 AM on 04/24/2011

f&f

[GZLives]

11:53 AM on 04/24/2011

Worse was he Vogue Magazine piece on the Assads ....

http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert/

[Quinn M]

07:15 PM on 04/23/2011

The privileged never give up power easily. Unfortunately, there will be more casualties, but no regime can endure for long once enough of it's people decide they're willing to risk their lives to topple it.

[Yank in France]

06:36 AM on 04/24/2011

I dunno, slavery lasted hundreds of years in the US and the Indians never seemed to benefit from a quick overthrow of tyranny.

Tyrannies have a lot going for them. It would be wrong to sell them short for a few user-friendly clichés.

[aFtersootdamP]

02:54 PM on 04/24/2011

Another "blame America firster". Slavery has existed for over 15,000 years. We at least fought a war and sacrificed ten percent of our population to end it. It still exists in the ME.

quinn's distorted view of a few protesters representing the "people" is absurd.

[hazyafternoonsunshine]

03:19 PM on 04/24/2011

So tyrannies are OK as long you you are part of the ruling class that benefits from the tyrannical state?