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Members Of Syria's Baath Party Resign In Protest

by Kelly McEvers, NPR
April 29, 2011

There are some signs of cracks in the regime of Syria's President Bashar al Assad. More than 200 members of the ruling Baath Party have resigned to protest the government's violent crackdown on demonstrators. Hundreds of protesters have been killed in recent weeks.

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