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militants use the Internet to find and expose those who believe that the disclosure of their neighbors to the security forces

A pair of eyes have seen in a store as a group of young people have been driven down a side street of Damascus by the security forces. Just in time, a resident opened the door to hide them.

was another Friday in the Duma, a suburb northeast of the capital, where the courageous protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has shown no signs of slowing down. But this time things went very badly for walkers. Within minutes, his pursuers were led by an informant to the house where they hid. As some have fled to the roof of the three-story house and jumped into the building next door, Jihad Shalhoub, 43, fell, clutching a railing on the way down.

A video provided by international activists Avaaz group captured at its destination. "Jihad tried to jump, but he slipped," one of three protesters continued on the roof, said

Observer

. "The security men were threw stones down on the Jihad until he fell. "That night, he died in hospital from his injuries.

with the international media reports banned in Syria, the bill gave the

Observer

telephone interviews with activists long local. He said the death Shalhoub was one of a growing number of cases in which citizens are spies to play a direct role in assisting the security forces Assad regime to repress pro-democracy demonstrators.

For nearly half a century of one-party regime, the Baath Syrian regime has maintained tight control over a nation of 22 million people through a network of civilian informants known as

awainiyya

-. Observers

Since man at the next table listening to the conversations of coffee with the local shopkeeper, taxi driver or a real estate agent, Syrian society is full of people who denounce their fellow citizens. They do everything for money, said activists and analysts, but also by fear, or sometimes because they are true believers in the ideology of the Assad regime has inherited from his father.

With the Baath Party is estimated at two million members, with at least 16 branches of the security services, the number of

awainiyya

to work Syria may be tens of thousands of people.

the uprising against the Assad regime is approaching its eighth month, the security services are increasingly relying on its network of citizen spies to quell the protests, activists said.

"I say to the traffic safety activists and protesters during demonstrations," said Sami, one of the leading activists of the Duma. "When the campaign of arrests, informants bring security to the homes of the suspects wore masks."

As the attempted revolution in Syria transforming power relations in one of the officers last in the world, protesters are using social media to fight. Facebook now hosts dozens of sites run by Syrian activists in which the names, addresses and photographs of suspected informers have been published.

sites residents can use to report suspected

The site provides specific details about the address of the suspect.
Mohammad Abu Khalaf, the trader, who reported on the Duma Shalhoub Jihad, had a quick punishment. A witness contacted the network of activists who witnessed the incident. Said Sami Abu Khalaf shop was destroyed and he was beaten. "He said," Please forgive me, God forgive me, I have not beaten. "Sami said." Informants should be punished. Is self-defense. We have seen people taken from their homes before he died under torture in prison after being informed of "