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Arab League sends monitors to Syria

Assad’s crackdown appears unabated

By Zeina Karam

 |  Associated Press  

  December 27, 2011

The Arab League sent monitors to Syria on Monday even though President Bashar Assad’s regime has only intensified its crackdown on dissent in the week since agreeing to the Arab plan to stop the bloodshed. Activists say government forces have killed several hundred civilians in the past week. At least 23 more deaths were reported Monday from intense shelling in the center of the country, just hours before the first 60 monitors were to arrive.

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