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Syrians Protest at Night to Elude Forces
(New York Times) Nada Bakri - In a shift in strategy, protesters across Syria have moved their daily demonstrations against the government to the evening, in the expectation that security forces will have a more difficult time identifying them for arrest. Human rights activists estimate the death toll since mid-March at 1,000, and they say that at least 10,000 protesters are in jail. "The protests will continue and will get bigger and stronger because the protesters are now more organized and more experienced," said Bourhan Ghalioun, director of the Center for Contemporary Oriental Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, who is also a prominent Syrian opposition figure. "They will no longer accept a government imposed on them by the power of tanks."