CAIRO - Protesters lay burial shrouds outside the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo on Saturday to symbolise the thousands killed in Syria's uprising and shame Arab governments into action to try to stop the violence. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad has pressed ahead with a military crackdown on the unrest despite an Arab peace plan brokered on Nov. 2 and his opponents hope an indignant Arab League will now suspend Syria's membership. Diplomats attending an emergency meeting of the League on Saturday say the most likely outcome is a harsher condemnation and a request for Syria to allow in foreign observers, but say the regional body will stop short of suspending Syria. The United Nations says 3,500 people have been killed in Assad's crackdown on the protests. As Arab foreign ministers gathered in Cairo, some 100 protesters shouted ‘Bashar goes out, Syria is free' and waved flags and banners reading: ‘The people want international protection'. ‘We are here to help rescue our Syrian brethren who are dying every day,' said demonstrator Safaa Youssef, a 25-year-old Yemeni woman studying in Cairo. Tayser Bayrs, a Syrian opposition activist who fled to Egypt five months ago, said he was still hopeful that the Arab League would freeze Syria's membership. ‘The revolution will win at the end. We are sure of that,' he said. Since the Arab peace deal, Syrian security forces have killed more than 100 people in Homs, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, calling for the Arab League to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.
