Killing of Opposition Leader in Syria Provokes Kurds

By artappraiser on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:20pm |

By Anthony Shadid, New York Times, October 8/9, 2011

...Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of a Syrian city on Saturday for the funeral of a celebrated Kurdish opposition leader whose assassination the day before unleashed fury in the country’s Kurdish regions and threatened to open a new theater of opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.

The crowds attending the funeral of Mashaal Tammo...constituted some of the biggest gatherings in weeks in the nearly seven-month uprising against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.

Activists said at least five people were killed when security forces opened fire on the funeral in Qamishli....

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/killing-of-opposition-leader-in-syria-provokes-kurds.html