2011年4月24日星期日

Syrian forces shoots grieving

23 April 2011 at 5:06 P.m., the BBC Owen Bennett-Jones says, that people stay requirements, police InsideSecurity defies forces in Syria are most recently updated have shot dead at least 12 people at funerals, for anti-government protesters killed on Friday, reports say.

Fire on mourning earn in parts of the capital Damascus and in the vicinity of the flashpoint southern town of Deraa opened, said witness.

At least 82 people allegedly died on Friday, the bloodiest day in some five weeks of unrest.

Two members of Parliament and a senior resigned to protest Muslim cleric from Deraa.

Friday's bloodshed came a day after decades of State of emergency scrapped President Bashar al-Assad, drew strong international condemnation.

Nearly 300 people are believed to since unrest broke out in the middle of last month have been killed.

Syria's State News Agency has reported a limited number of protests in some provinces and the violence described as the work of armed criminal gangs.

With foreign journalists is not in the situation in Syria, you can check accounts of victims - witnesses, opposition activists and human rights groups - not independently of each other.

The BBC Owen Bennett-Jones in Beirut says that it seems that the Government clear a conscious decision to live ammunition, you impose the streets and order use has made.

With many people in Syria now openly for an end to President Assad call rule, he says, the Government realized its survival at stake, and it's hard fighting.

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one of the fallen people was not dead, he was injured and when someone tries to help a security guard victim shot twice, the dead to ensure that he is "
end quote unnamed woman, the witness to shoot at least five people in Damascus on Friday reportedly", travel when fired on grieving security forces died after funerals in the village of Ezra, in the Deraa province, in an effort to prevent the participation.

Riyad Sayf, a former Syrian MP and activist, stripped of his immunity and was in prison in 2001, after he exposed corruption in the telecom sector, attended a funeral in Deraa.

"Currently we all martyrs to be because of our rights, which would our for would the entire nation and the Syrian people are", he said a lot of grieving, responded by you called: "God is great".

At least seven people were shot in the Duma and bar toe, reportedly both districts of Damascus.

In bar city chanted mourning "where are you Assad?" "We are for your head".

Many of Friday's deaths have been reported in the central city of Homs, the Ezra and Duma occurred.

A Hims resident, who gave only his name, as Mohammed the BBC on Saturday said people were afraid, leave their homes in funerals participate when they were shot.

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He said "today, Hims is empty, there is no one outside,". "they arrest someone who they find outside and they are now again start to shoot and kill anyone who is outside." Hims is a ghost town.

He said the authorities had a cordon to Homs and food supplies in this city of 700,000 people have been blocked.

An unnamed Damascus residents has the BBC a harrowing account like they and others under fire was received.

"I was very near, five metres away," she said.

"I saw more than six people fall to the ground." It was to being someone close to them, the attempted help. One of the fallen people was not dead, he was injured and when someone tries to help a security guard shot the victim twice, to ensure that he is dead.

"We completed all the steps." "Shot two people who were next to me."

Participation in a protest in Harista district on Saturday, saw more shoot it, but it was "nothing like [Friday] because people don't hang around, but ran away quickly".

The protesters were peaceful, she said. "they were carrying olive branches and [question] for freedom and democracy."

Resignations

One of the resigning members, Naser al-Hariri, told al-Jazeera TV: "If I my sons before the treacherous shots to protect have failed it has no sense in me in the Parliament remain."

The second MP, Khalil al-Rifaei, said he could not "protect the people, which the Parliament brought me", and urged President Assad to intervene, the violence to stop.

Rezq Abdulrahman Abazeid, the Government-appointed Mufti or Muslim preacher for Deraa province, said, that he "as one of the case of the victims and martyrs of the police fire" was withdrawn.

"When they announce at a high level, that [protesters] are not shot are, we see that the truth on the ground, not as is," he told al-Jazeera.

US President Barack Obama joined a chorus of international condemnation Friday's attacks on demonstrators, for an end to the "outrageous to suppress use of violence to protests".

A unbenannter Syrian officials rejected criticism of Mr Obama, the Syrian State News Agency Sana it "not on an objective vision of the reality on the ground which was based on" tell.

Sana said security forces only tear gas and water cannon had used to prevent clashes on Friday.

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