Abdul Rahman Orfalli was an anti-government organizer during the current Syrian uprising, who played a principal role in organizing the original demonstrations in March 2011. On March 20, 2012, he was reported to have been killed in heavy shelling by the Syrian army in an offensive on

Homs Homs ( , , , ; ar, حِمْص / ALA-LC: ; Levantine Arabic: / ''Ḥomṣ'' ), known in pre-Islamic Syria as Emesa ( ; grc, Ἔμεσα, Émesa), is a city in western Syria and the capital of the Homs Governorate. It is Metres above sea level ...

. The Homs Coordination Committee said heavy shelling killed Orfalli, 23. He had been arrested twice and tortured during a five-month detainment before returning to Homs to lead anti-government violence, the group said.

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