The city and province of Aleppo has remained relatively quiet for the past 5 months. While many other provinces quickly rose up against the regime, Aleppo's strange mix of a Sunni business elite who have been unwilling to support the opposition, coupled with and a conservative Sunni community, has mostly remained on the sidelines of the revolution. While there have been smaller protests in the city itself, they has been nothing compared to the types of protests seen in cities like Homs or Hama. Today it seems the ice has been broken. Reports are coming in that massive protests are occurring around the province and in Aleppo city itself. Security forces -which have been loathe to use live ammunition against protesters in the past- opened fire on protesters in Saad'Allah square in the city center. It is not known how many people have been killed so far.
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