In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
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Question: シリアの抗議行動は3月半ば、政治犯の家族がダマスカスで集会を開き、ダルアーの人々が反体制的な落書きのために12名以上の子どもたちの逮捕に反対抗議した後に、緊張感が高まった。

Answer: Protests in Syria have intensified since mid-March after families of political prisoners held rallies in Damascus and people in Daraa protested against the arrests of more than a dozen children for anti-regime graffiti.


Question: この報告によると、金曜日に始まる訓練は、ホルムズ海峡からオマーン湾を含むインド洋の北部までに渡る、およそ50万平方マイル（100万平方キロメートル）を超える海域で行われる予定だ。

Answer: According to this report the drills — which began on Friday — are to be conducted over roughly half a million square miles (a million square kilometers) of waters stretching from the Strait of Hormuz to the northern part of the Indian Ocean which includes the Gulf of Oman.


Question: 内務省報道官、ShotaUtiashviliは「国境が封鎖されれば、それは人道的な大惨事となるだろう」と言った。

Answer:
Shota Utiashvili ,an interior ministry spokesman, said, "It will be a humanitarian catastrophe if the border is closed."