(New York Times) Katherine Zoepf - Pro-democracy protests at Damascus University in Syria were violently suppressed on Monday as witnesses said that one student was killed. Human rights advocates say nearly 200 protesters have been killed since demonstrations began against Bashar Assad's authoritarian government in mid-March. As they have spread to dozens of communities across Syria and become more violent, it has become more difficult for the government to maintain that the deaths of protesters were the work of foreign saboteurs trying to spread terror.
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