Saturday, April 9, 2011

Syria: Deadly protests in Daraa

Security forces in Syria on Friday again acted violently against the demonstrators. In the city of Daraa in the south of the country where the protests began in mid-March, it should have been killed, according to doctors at least thirteen people. Thousands of people were thus in the 100-km south of the capital city of Damascus after Friday prayers on the street.


Security forces in civilian clothes had used tear gas and then used live ammunition and rubber bullets. would be stationed on the roofs of snipers, a local resident told the news agency Reuters. Witnesses said protesters put a branch of the ruling Baath party on fire and destroyed a statue of a brother of President Bashar al-Assad.

A resident reported that the clashes injured were being taken into private homes. Fearing arrest, no one wants to bring his relatives in hospitals. The Syrian state television showed pictures of this protest in Daraa were reports of protests there on Friday from other Syrian cities. At a demonstration in a suburb of the capital Damascus, according to participants to hear shots from automatic weapons.

The telephone lines in the suburb of Harasta, which has developed into a center of Sunni opposition was broken, according to witnesses. Also in the mainly Sunni-populated city of Homs, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets. In the east, thousands of Kurds demonstrated against the ruling Baath Party.

Previously the government had made concessions in the minority of citizenship, but which met with disapproval. Young people cried...

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