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| Subject: Smoke and mirrors: Syrian president sacks government Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:02 am | |
| Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sacked the government after unrest erupted in the country and caused deaths of about 50 people, the official SANA news agency reported Tuesday.
Al-Assad has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Muhammad Naji Otri and then named him as the caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.
Otri formed his government in 2003 and has reshuffled the cabinet several times. It was last reshuffled in April 2009.
The resignation came as anti-government protests erupted recently in parts of the country, particularly in the southern town of Daraa, about 100 km south to the capital Damascus. Clashes between the security forces and protesters killed about 50 Syrians, according to official sources.
The Syrian authorities rushed to contain the protests through taking reform steps like ending the country's emergency law, increasing state servants' incomes and releasing political detainees.
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