Today, on Friday, April 29, 2011, the world is upbeat as media all across the globe beams the royal wedding.

The British government has declared a holiday in celebration. Friday is a holiday in Syria too but while the world rejoices, we live in fear, dreading the worst.

Branding it 'Angry Friday', the country's newly empowered youth plans to lead processions, demanding an end to the Assad family's rule that has lasted for record years.

Today, our Mediterranean nation is bracing for the bloodiest day since the Arab spring began.

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Everyday more troops are deployed and novel draconian tactics are applied against unarmed citizens shouting slogans for hurriyah (freedom).

Maher al-Assad, the ruler's brother, is a man with the mission to keep the streets calm today. All-Alawit corps is his most lethal weapon as a commander of the ground forces.

While most Sunni suburbs of Damascus and cities like Daraa remain besieged with tanks, infiltrated with intelligence agents and police officials, an eerie silence prevails in deserted parks and even in the bustling markets, hinting at a brewing storm.

Over the past five Fridays, Syria has turned into Hyde Park, drawing enormous and unprecedented strength from the protestors of southern Daraa city where snipers act like God. Duma offers another inspiring model for pro-democracy activists where military and Bashar's sleuth have failed to impress with their firepower.

Yesterday, as darkness fell in Syria with Maghrib prayers, many feared that action may begin. “It will be a night of hide and seek as the security agencies would kidnap as many as possible,” said my brother's friend Ahmad, a resident of Damascus.

"The battle for Syria is on and its sons are ready to wage it with anything and everything they have. The youth is not alone for Friday's big processions," he said.

Aside from Daraa, women and young girls are adding their voice to the uprising. Some through their show of strength on streets while others by cooking meals and stitching wounds when hospitals turn into prisons.

Many bloggers in Arabic claim arrests of doctors for providing care to injured Syrians.

"Female nurses fear for their lives and honour and this fear makes them stay away from, their jobs," says a senior doctor in a Gtalk chat with me. He does not want to be named.

Suspicious of privacy on telephone, the Syrians prefer to use online chat rooms, Facebook and Twitter pages to plan for the big day. There is no letting up. Ironically, Christians, another significant minority have been quite as is the multi-cultural Aleppo.

Today's demonstrations may change the landscape of this historic city as well.

In a Muslim majority country, the government is most scared of mosques where Juma prayers give birth to massive public rallies.

This is already a new country in a matter of weeks.

Social media announcements suggest that all people should march toward Damascus after Friday prayers in Harasta in countryside. The organisers advise the people "to shorten the time and duration of demonstrations gathered in one place to lead to Damascus."

Smaller demonstrations would be hard to deal with for insecure and isolated military junta.

Uninterrupted unrest has already caused food shortages while transporters and family are sparing using petrol. Medicines and baby formula is hard to find too.

"A disaster is unfolding in Syria but the world and humanitarian agencies stay oblivious," says an expatriate from Aleppo, who has been barred to return home by the regime.

There are no camps for internally displaced people while cities are empty and haunted.

In Duma, Yasser and his wife Rasha could escape the city with their two sons and a three-year-old daughter soon after a tank battalion annexed the town. The Syrian army positioned a vehicle right outside their gate. The power was cut and phones lines severed.

Yasser was home with his sons, helping them in their homework. Rasha was coming to Duma from Damascus with her youngest daughter. As she stepped out of the bus, she saw a strange scene. Before she could make sense of it all, an angry noise mob marched past next to her shouting slogans against the ruling family and seeking freedom and dignity.

As they turned to a street on the right, aerial fire followed them. "I was left holding my daughter in the middle of nowhere!"

Back in her home, similar shootout had shattered window panes of kitchen and bedroom.

Rasha says, "My sons were scared and hid under a bed with their father. It was unbelievable for me when security forces stopped me to ask for my identity." She remembers seeing dead bodies on the road and an ambulance van which woudn't take the wounded to hospital.

Her nightmare had only started. "I saw angry men trying to take the injured to a nearby mosque as sending them to a hospital was risky."

Either the wounded die of little medical care or are arrested to rot in dark prisons.

Kuwaiti newspaper 'Arrai' quoted Montaha Atrash, president of the Association Equal (Sawasia) Human rights, as saying, "Parents find sending the wounded to hospitals risky as unidentified armed men kidnap them." Some official doctors also confirm such abductions.

Yasser says after the shootout, the first thing is to drag dead bodies in homes or mosques as even they are not safe.

"Revenge of regime does not finish with the protestor's life as troops mutilate the dead bodies," says Yasser recalling some unforgettable scenes he saw in Duma.

"With my daughter next to me, I was caught between the army and protestors until an unknown family brought me to their home," says Rasha. She recalls that the family was insecure and confused.

She remembers a woman in that family inquiring her "If I die now, will I be considered a martyr?" Rasha hugged her tight and prayed for peace.

She is not the only person wishing for martyrdom for the cause of dignity and freedom of Syria.

"I'm not scared at all. I do not go for protest with the desire to return home. I’m going to be a martyr," reads one Facebook post on a Syria page. He never posted a line again.

He might be one of those 100 killed last Friday after Juma prayers in Damascus.

Noura recalls leaving the kind family's home and tried to briskly cross one street after the other. "I lived a bitter experience; my son saw everything ... over 30 dead bodies in the streets, roaring sound of automatic machine guns and fumes of tear gas."

Syrian are getting used to of such stories.

Burhan Ghalion, Professor in Sorbonne University writes on a website: "Excessive use of violence by authority would strengthen the resolve of the people and complicate challenge to the system." He believes that Bashar is blocking is his exit route by each bullet fired and every innocent kidnapped by his men.

In March, protests began in small groups. The big rally in southern Daraa, city shook the entire country. The protesters were arrested by the Syrian troops and even included 15 children. The politically motivated graffiti inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt has shaken the entire country.

A friend in Moudameiayha says that people sent their children and women outside the town for safety, anticipating the worst known bloodshed.

"The Syrians are bracing for a massacre on Friday after seeking God's forgiveness but no one will retreat or run away," tweeted a retired professor.

Maryam Hasan is a young journalist and social media activist whose family struggled against Hafiz Al-Assad’s tyrannical rule and policies.