Assad backers rally in Damascus -- chanting "Death to Israel!"

[RandallB]

Baath party backers rally in Damascus

07 April 2012 http://www.france24.com/en/20120407-...rally-damascus

Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the Syrian capital on Saturday to show their backing for President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Baath party on the 65th anniversary of its creation.



AFP - Thousands of demonstrators turned out in the Syrian capital on Saturday to show their backing for President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Baath party on the 65th anniversary of its creation.

An AFP journalist said government supporters gathered in the central Sabaa Bahrat Square, waving the red, black and green national flag and portraits of Assad as patriotic music blared from loudspeakers.

"God, Syria and Bashar -- that's all," and "Shabiha (regime militiamen) for life, for you Assad" were among the slogans they chanted.

One young woman stood on a platform put up for the rally and shouted: "They called it a revolution and they are massacring people," referring to the rebels battling Assad's regime.

Supporters of the president also chanted "Death to Israel!" amid a sea of giant Baath party flags.

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[KingBozra]

I would think they are afraid to do anything else.

[Tall Timbers]

In every regime there is a group of people who benefit from the status quo, and they're the ones who will lose the most if that status quo changes.