Unhappy in Horns

摘要

AS YOU drive past the main checkpoint and on into the centre of Horns, Syria's third-largest city, about 160km (100 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, it is easy to be lulled into a sense of calm. The security forces have blocked protesters from reaching the town's central New Clock square since they violently broke up a sit-in there on April 18th. Around the square, windows are still boarded. Order seems, at first glance, to prevail.