At least 37 people were killed Saturday by gunfire from the Syrian security forces in protests in various provinces, as denounced by the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria in the town of Dera city, south of the country, Police opened fire on a group demonstrating peacefully after holding funerals for other victims of the repression of the protests, ending withthe lives of 26 of them.
In addition, 11 others died in similar circumstances in the province of Homs, north of Damascus. As has the organization, security and police forces "dispersed peaceful demonstrations in several Syrian provinces using excessive and unwarranted violence, through use of bullets." On the night of Saturday to Sunday, Syrian security forces have been deployed in two outbreaks Sunnis, as residents recount.
Several tanks have taken the northern district of the coastal city of Banias, which houses two major refineries, and telephone communications have been suspended. Protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad has intensified as the repression has been hardened against the riots in the south, where the uprising began more than three weeks and has led manifestantse to destroy statues Asad family.
Asad, a member of the Alawite ethnic minority, accounting for 10% of the Syrian population, has used the secret police, special forces and paramilitary and military troops in their determination to quell the riots at all costs. Since the beginning of the protests, the president has combined an unprecedented violence and ordered to open fire on hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, with conciliatory gestures such as replacing the existing state of emergency "for five decades-by a law against terrorism.
Asad justifies the measures arguing that the protests respond to an international conspiracy to sow conflict in Syria. 
In addition, 11 others died in similar circumstances in the province of Homs, north of Damascus. As has the organization, security and police forces "dispersed peaceful demonstrations in several Syrian provinces using excessive and unwarranted violence, through use of bullets." On the night of Saturday to Sunday, Syrian security forces have been deployed in two outbreaks Sunnis, as residents recount.
Several tanks have taken the northern district of the coastal city of Banias, which houses two major refineries, and telephone communications have been suspended. Protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad has intensified as the repression has been hardened against the riots in the south, where the uprising began more than three weeks and has led manifestantse to destroy statues Asad family.
Asad, a member of the Alawite ethnic minority, accounting for 10% of the Syrian population, has used the secret police, special forces and paramilitary and military troops in their determination to quell the riots at all costs. Since the beginning of the protests, the president has combined an unprecedented violence and ordered to open fire on hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, with conciliatory gestures such as replacing the existing state of emergency "for five decades-by a law against terrorism.
Asad justifies the measures arguing that the protests respond to an international conspiracy to sow conflict in Syria.
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