Liam Stack reports on the martyrization of Hamza:
In a revolutionary season that has seen countless “Fridays of Rage” in half a dozen countries, Syrian activists marched on a day that some dubbed “the Saturday of Hamza.” … In the Damascus suburb of Douma, protesters marched through the night chanting “Leave! Leave!” to Mr. Assad while holding signs declaring, “We are all Hamza al-Khateeb,” according to a video posted on YouTube. Video from another suburb, Dereya, showed women and children demonstrating, with a chorus of young voices shouting, “The people want the overthrow of the regime.” They held aloft signs that read, “Did Hamza scare you that much?”
Stack zooms out:
Revolution spread across Tunisia after the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit vendor humiliated by police officers who confiscated his cart. In Egypt, the death last summer of Khaled Said, a 28-year-old man dragged out of an Internet cafe and killed by plainclothes police a block from his home, was a rallying cry for the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square. The Syrian uprising was incited by the arrest in early March of a group of children, aged 8 to 15, caught spraying antigovernment graffiti on the wall of their schoolhouse in the southern town of Dara’a, Mr. Ziadeh said.
Enduring America captions the above video, "Demonstration in Aleppo on Sunday night, expressing sympathy for Hamza al-Khateeb".
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