2011年4月25日星期一

Army "attacks protest hub"

25 Showed April 2011 last updated at 09: 22 GMT unverified amateur video, that army with tanks used troops on DeraaSyria's troops, activists and unverified video back in the southern town of Deraa, has reached.

An activist was quoted, that security forces "" in all directions were, and there were unconfirmed reports of victims.

Witnesses said also security forces opened fire in a suburb of Damascus.

News of the attack followed reports of crackdowns and arrests in other parts of the country.

On Sunday at least 13 people reported in the North Western town of based have been killed.

Security forces should be rounded up suspected protest last week organizers despite the lifting of the State of emergency.

Deraa is, that the city, the demonstrators call began for political, reforms in the last month. Now many demand President Bashar al-Assad step down.

At least 350 people are reported to have been killed.

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An activist told the BBC that in Deraa on Monday, Mosque in the old town had surrounded al-Omari tanks and security forces removed bodies from the street.

Continue reading the most important story image of Owen Bennett Jones Owen Bennett Jones BBC News, Beirut

Opposition activists have in recent days as liberated area, and two members of Parliament and a local religious officials describe it Deraa Saturday's protest against the killing of demonstrators.

By sending in troops the Government decided their, regain control of the city shown. In Syria, armed security personnel in uniform and in civilian clothes was patrolled by the road of cities and towns have somewhere else.

The Government of the State of emergency lifted last week in an attempt to appease the protesters. The error has used to stop the protests, and since the Government force to suppress the demands for more freedom.

Amnesty cited news agency AFP, which says that an estimated 3,000 members of the security forces had Deraa, snipers had thrown from rooftops was.

Another activist, Abdullah al-Harriri, told AFP: "the men are in all directions fire and support behind the tank which is them protection," he said.

"Electricity is cut off, and telephone communications are impossible."

A resident Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera said that five people had been killed.

Foreign journalists have prevented entry has been difficult to verify the information.

But the BBC Owen Bennett-Jones in the neighbouring Lebanon says not reported elsewhere in Syria, and would mark an increase in the Government in response to protests the use of tanks.

That the Government is absolutely determined to use violence to suppress the protest movement, emerges from the latest reports, he says.

Gateway to the South

Deraa, where several officials in protest at the killing must withdraw from demonstrators, is the most important city of Syria's Hawran region.

BBC map

Located just a few kilometres from the border with Jordan, it is a gateway to the South for a long time.

Many in the North Western town of 80,000 are members of the same Nusairier minority as President Assad, and they have generally avoided joining protests so far.

At least 95 people were killed on Syria on Friday and on Saturday, another 12 reported as grieving under fire.

The authorities have irregular on demonstrations - sometimes promised, more democracy and freedoms, and others allow at any time open fire on demonstrators responded.

Campaign group human urged a UN investigation Rights Watch and after Friday murders, while Western Governments in their criticism of the Syrian Government have become louder international sanctions against Syria.

U.S. President Barack Obama said "outrageous use of violence to protests to suppress" on Friday by the.

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