Damasco/Barcelona.- While the world has its eyes on Allied attacks to stop the atrocities of Muanmar-Qaddafi in Libya, Syrian President Bashar al Assad fought its particular war and violence with gunfire off any protest in demand greater democracy and freedom. After the flame that ignited the democracy protests earlier this year in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Yemen, Syria now violently suppressed any peaceful demonstration against their rulers.
Reports coming from the country certified that are taking place massacres against civilians by the police. The Syrian regime has not hesitated to order the police to shoot directly at groups of demonstrators, mostly university students, who have one week protesting in the streets of Deraa and yesterday they were surprised by the indiscriminate firing by the police to disperse.
According to images broadcast by French television channel France24, Deraa hospital yesterday received between 20 and 25 dead bodies and all recorded gunshot wounds. Yesterday's protests were called to demand the end of political corruption and military in Syria and the opening of a free and democratic elections.
Today they have called new protests in the streets of the city, which could lead to more massacres. "It was terrible. At no time warned that police would shoot. Only street protests to demand greater democracy regime, freedom and a better future for us in a totalitarian country. Suddenly we heard shooting, we hid in doorways and in broad daylight, after several rounds of shots we saw dozens of dead people lying on the ground, "said the young Yahid in a video broadcast on French television.
France, Britain and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, have condemned the violent police repression in Syria and have called for an investigation to identify the perpetrators of this slaughter. For its part, the Qatari television network Al Jazeera reported Thursday the intention of President al-Assad and the entire system that supports the "declare war" the rebels of the opposition, accusing them of provoking the clashes of recent days, while opponents today retook Daraa streets, south of the capital Damascus.
According to different sources today have reported displaced in Syria, the police firing on demonstrators have caused in the last week at least one hundred deaths in the city of Deraa where yesterday a group of officers shot the young students protesting against the regime, killing at least 25 deaths.
Deraa hospital in southern Syria, has confirmed that it "has received at least 25 bodies of protesters, as reported on Thursday an official at the medical center said. The official view of the protests the government newspaper Al Watan near wrote today that what is happening in the country "is a battle against a foreign power that spends millions of dollars with the aim of hitting the security and stability of Syria." All Syrians should therefore be prepared to protect their homeland, he says.
Especially the clergy were called upon to explain to the faithful not to fall into the lies fabricated by foreign media. The opposition denounced by his party a "slaughter" in the city of Dera, comparable to that of Hama in 1982, when the current president's father, Hafiz al Assad, very violently suppressed an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, killing thousands city dwellers, reports the German news agency DPA.
Deraa became the last days in the center of protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government. The inhabitants of the city asserted that the police and the army killed 25 people Wednesday and wounded over 250. At the funeral taking place today, thousands of people returned to the streets of the city, a witness said.
Funerals were also held in the town of Jorfat Ghasale. According to the opposition, the victims include people from areas near the security forces attacked after entering the city leave. The clerk of the Al Omari Dara, Sheikh Ahmed al Zayasina, told dpa that after the bloodshed on Wednesday the city is surrounded by security forces.
The townspeople who starred in the protests against repression and corruption in the last week and hopes to fears of foreign aid. According to a witness quoted by Al Jazeera television an indefinite number of snipers are stationed on rooftops near the Al Omari, the epicenter of the protests.
Activists Human Rights Defenders in Damascus meanwhile reported new arrests. Political activist and journalist Mazen Darwish, founder of the Center for Media and Freedom of opinion in 2009, is missing. In recent days, spoke publicly about the events in Daraa. His wife, Jara Badr, said that security forces forced him in recent days appear to ensure that it was out of town, but on Wednesday did not return home.
Syria is ruled by the Baath party since 1963, under a regime that restricted political freedoms. 
Reports coming from the country certified that are taking place massacres against civilians by the police. The Syrian regime has not hesitated to order the police to shoot directly at groups of demonstrators, mostly university students, who have one week protesting in the streets of Deraa and yesterday they were surprised by the indiscriminate firing by the police to disperse.
According to images broadcast by French television channel France24, Deraa hospital yesterday received between 20 and 25 dead bodies and all recorded gunshot wounds. Yesterday's protests were called to demand the end of political corruption and military in Syria and the opening of a free and democratic elections.
Today they have called new protests in the streets of the city, which could lead to more massacres. "It was terrible. At no time warned that police would shoot. Only street protests to demand greater democracy regime, freedom and a better future for us in a totalitarian country. Suddenly we heard shooting, we hid in doorways and in broad daylight, after several rounds of shots we saw dozens of dead people lying on the ground, "said the young Yahid in a video broadcast on French television.
France, Britain and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, have condemned the violent police repression in Syria and have called for an investigation to identify the perpetrators of this slaughter. For its part, the Qatari television network Al Jazeera reported Thursday the intention of President al-Assad and the entire system that supports the "declare war" the rebels of the opposition, accusing them of provoking the clashes of recent days, while opponents today retook Daraa streets, south of the capital Damascus.
According to different sources today have reported displaced in Syria, the police firing on demonstrators have caused in the last week at least one hundred deaths in the city of Deraa where yesterday a group of officers shot the young students protesting against the regime, killing at least 25 deaths.
Deraa hospital in southern Syria, has confirmed that it "has received at least 25 bodies of protesters, as reported on Thursday an official at the medical center said. The official view of the protests the government newspaper Al Watan near wrote today that what is happening in the country "is a battle against a foreign power that spends millions of dollars with the aim of hitting the security and stability of Syria." All Syrians should therefore be prepared to protect their homeland, he says.
Especially the clergy were called upon to explain to the faithful not to fall into the lies fabricated by foreign media. The opposition denounced by his party a "slaughter" in the city of Dera, comparable to that of Hama in 1982, when the current president's father, Hafiz al Assad, very violently suppressed an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood, killing thousands city dwellers, reports the German news agency DPA.
Deraa became the last days in the center of protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government. The inhabitants of the city asserted that the police and the army killed 25 people Wednesday and wounded over 250. At the funeral taking place today, thousands of people returned to the streets of the city, a witness said.
Funerals were also held in the town of Jorfat Ghasale. According to the opposition, the victims include people from areas near the security forces attacked after entering the city leave. The clerk of the Al Omari Dara, Sheikh Ahmed al Zayasina, told dpa that after the bloodshed on Wednesday the city is surrounded by security forces.
The townspeople who starred in the protests against repression and corruption in the last week and hopes to fears of foreign aid. According to a witness quoted by Al Jazeera television an indefinite number of snipers are stationed on rooftops near the Al Omari, the epicenter of the protests.
Activists Human Rights Defenders in Damascus meanwhile reported new arrests. Political activist and journalist Mazen Darwish, founder of the Center for Media and Freedom of opinion in 2009, is missing. In recent days, spoke publicly about the events in Daraa. His wife, Jara Badr, said that security forces forced him in recent days appear to ensure that it was out of town, but on Wednesday did not return home.
Syria is ruled by the Baath party since 1963, under a regime that restricted political freedoms.
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