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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Around 200 Jordanians and Syrians marched from Abdoun Circle to the Syrian embassy on Tuesday to denounce the growing number of killings in the Syrian city of Homs.

During the two-hour demonstration, organised by the Jordanian Commission to Support the Syrian People (JCSSP), protesters also expressed their support for the Free Syrian Army.

JCSSP President Ali Abul Sukkar said Tuesday's protest was organised to express sympathy for the innocents who are being killed in "cold blood".

"When the regime started killing its people, it lost its legitimacy. This regime is cruel because it does not allow international aid organisations to help Syrians who are in need," he told The Jordan Times during the demonstration.

Abul Sukkar asserted that the scale of crime is much bigger than what is seen on television.

"I am sure when these bloody crimes come to an end, we will hear and see scenes that are crueller than what we are watching right now. The regime is committing the holocaust of the 21st century," the JCSSP president added.

In response to the Bashar Assad regime’s contention that the protesters in Syria are "terrorist gangs", Abul Sukkar retorted: "If there were terrorist gangs, the regime would allow the media to cover these events and the world that they are right."

Mohammed Rabaa, a Jordanian who joined the march, said the difficult conditions and the oppression Syrians are facing encouraged him to take part in the demonstration, during which participants performed the sunset prayer.

Rabaa, who works at a pharmaceutical company, brought a creative prop to the demonstration: an enlarged mock drug container containing cardboard pills marked with the Syrian resistance flag, which he called "Freedom Drugs".

Wassim Sbinaty, a Syrian who arrived in Amman five months ago, criticised the Syrian opposition for failing to end the killings.

"Although they are opposing the regime, they have not achieved anything for the sake of Syria and they have not provided the Free Syrian Army with the needed help," he said.

Sbinaty said the situation in his country is awful, and many Syrians are being forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in other countries.

Abu Hammam, a Palestinian who lives in Jordan, accused Arab regimes of sharing culpability for the massacres.

“I do not expect they will move to end these crimes," he told The Jordan Times during the protest.

Firas Bitar, a Jordanian who has not missed any protest held outside the Syrian embassy, said he took part in Tuesday's march to say: "Stop killing innocent people."

"This is the least I can do," said Bitar, who was joined by his child.

Abul Sukkar called on the Arab world to support the Syrian people.

"Arab regimes must take brave steps towards supporting the Syrian people in general and the Free Syrian Army in particular," he said.


* Jordan Times / By Muath Freij