Stop Syria of Baath party members. reported military defections - Los Angeles Times

Syrian families arrive on foot in the region of Wadi Khaled of North of Lebanon, near the Lebanese-Syrian border. Hundreds of children and Syrian women crossed the northern border of the Lebanon, fleeing the violence in Syria. (Omar Ibrahim, Reuters / April 28, 2011)

Cracks appear in the Syrian regime Thursday with the resignation of the members of the Baath party to power and continuous reports of military divisions before another confrontation with demonstrators expected Friday.

About 200 people resigned from the Baath party in the past two days to protest Government's violent response disorders. Most of the resignations came from members of the party in the cities of Dara and Baniyas, points have been hot opposition.

"My resignation was a message and the duty," former party member Mohammad Sheghri said in Baniyas. "Security officials has clearly abused of peaceful demonstrators and unarmed." This ruthless violation and the oppression of citizens has never been something the party Baath represented. ?

He also continued reports of dissension within the armed forces. A resident of Dara said an entire army unit, a division or brigade, had broken and was hidden among the people.

His claim could not be verified. Media of the Syrian State cited Thursday a military employee without name dismissing these reports as a "distortion of the media", confirming the unity of the armed forces in "conspiracies."

Access to the sites of protest was widely denied to foreign journalists.

The pro-democracy movement erupted in Dara six weeks after the arrest and torture of a group of adolescents accused of writing graffiti policy opposition to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. It has quickly spread across the country.

Thursday from Dara resident, reached by telephone satellite, said 42 people had been killed by security forces, in the city since Monday when 4th Division Army, the armoured, directed by his brother Maher Assad, stormed the city. Residents described the military assault as a "massacre" and complained about severe food and fuel shortages.

"They are bombing us from the South," said the resident, who requested anonymity for the sake of security. "We have no milk, no gas, light step, no electricity;" they cut everything. ?

He said the army and the shabiha, pro-Government armed plainclothes men who played a central role in the repression, filled the streets.

A witness, Mohamad al-Homsi, said the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera that three women who were captured in bringing milk to children in the city were forced to kiss the feet of soldiers until they were allowed to pass.

Homsi "our children have died of hunger," said on air shortly before the station announced that it had suspended operations in Syria in response to "restrictions and attacks on its staff."

Elsewhere in the country, the authorities took measures on the movement and communication as the militants and Government forces prepared for the Friday prayer, often followed by massive protests by anti-Government.

Video posted on the Internet appears to show Government forces open fire on the crowd in the third city of the Syria, Homs, kill several people. The video has been downloaded Thursday but could not be confirmed.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should hold a session of emergency Friday to draft a resolution calling on the Syrian Government and its supporters to stop the use of violence against the demonstrators. Organization of Syrian rights sawasiah reported arrested thousands and more than 500 civilians killed so far, Reuters news.

Even former allies of the Syria Turkey and the Iran appear to be increasingly uncomfortable with repression. Istanbul, Turkey, organized a series of top-level between the Syrian opposition meetings, and a group of prominent poets and writers of autour region Thursday issued a statement here condemning the "massacres committed by the Syrian regime against unarmed civilians."

Another sign that it is less than pleased with his neighbour, the Turkey also sent a delegation headed by the National Intelligence Agency Assistant Hakan Fidan and State Planning Organization under Secretary Kemal Madenoglu in Damascus, the Syrian capital", Thursday to discuss the recent incidents" "The unofficial Turkey Anatolia news agency reported."

The Turkey and the Syria maintains healthy trade and diplomatic relations and the sending of those responsible for security and trade could be considered a warning veiled in Syria.

Lutz and Hajjar are special correspondents.

Personal time writer Borzou Daragahi contributed to this report.

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At least 400 civilians killed in the revolt of the Syria: Group - Reuters

AMMAN. Tue April 26, 2011 1 pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - the Syrian security forces shot dead at least 400 civilians in their campaign to crush the pro-democracy protests of long months, Sawasiah Syrian human rights organization said on Tuesday.

The group, founded by Mohannad al-Hassani imprisoned human rights lawyer, said that the United Nations Security Council should convene to start proceedings against the Syrian in the international criminal court officials and "reigns in security apparatus".

"This savage behavior, which aims to maintain the clique of decision power to the detriment of a growing number of life of civilians, calls for immediate international action beyond the convictions," Sawasiah said in a statement sent to Reuters.

"The murderers in the Syrian regime must be held accountable." The rivers of the blood by this oppressive regime over the past four decades are enough, said the statement.

Board of Directors of Sawasiah includes philosophy Syrian Professor Sadiq Jalal al-Azem, the book "Self-criticism after the defeat" helped to prepare the ground for a revival in Arab political thought after the victory of Israel in the 1967 war in the Middle East.

Separately, the Syrian human rights observatory, said security police arrested rights activist Qassem al-Ghazzawi Tuesday in his hometown of Deir al - Zor in the Syria is poor after protests intensified in the region last week.

The Observatory also said Mahmoud Issa, an activist and a former political prisoner arrested last week in the city of Homs, submitted to a military court Tuesday on charges of "owning a Thuraya satellite phone and edge computing."

(Reported by Khaled Yacoub Oweis;) (Editing by Louise Ireland)

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Syria tells public to stay home as the Opposition called for rallies

April 29, 2011, 3: 34 pm EDT by Massoud a. Derhally

April 29 (Bloomberg)--the Ministry of the Interior the Syria warned its citizens not step to organize demonstrations and "contribute to the stability and security" of the country as pledged to defy a deadly repression and continue protests by activists.

The Syrians said Ministry should "refrain from exercising rallies or demonstrations and sit-ins, under a title pending approval of" of the authorities, according to a statement carried by managed by the Government of Syria Arab News Agency. "The laws will be applied to serve the security of citizens and the stability of the homeland", the Ministry said.Demonstrators will likely challenge the ban because "nothing important was held to appease the anger of the people", Abdul - Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian human rights League, said in a telephone interview from Damascus late yesterday. The opposition that Muslim Brotherhood called on people to demonstrate today, Al-Arabiya television reported. Anti-Government protests have intensified after the Friday prayer since the beginning of the agitation in the workplace March.The last exercised repression since last Friday prayers, especially in the southern region of Dara, pushed the number of deaths throughout the country since the middle of March to more than 450, says organization the national Syria for human rights. The demonstrations are part of a wave of popular movements who unseated leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, violent reactions pricked in Libya and Bahrain and oil prices have helped grow more than 20 per cent this year.More than 1,000 people were arrested across the country since the latest demonstrations began on April 22, with the total number of detentions since unrest began at least 2,000 according to Mahmoud Merhiwho heads the Arab Organization for Human Rights.European PressureEuropean nations have intensified pressure on the Syria, summoning the ambassadors and pushing for an organization of the United Nations vote to protest against violence. In New York, China and the directed Russia opposition blocked an initiative on 27 April by the United States and its European allies to the Security Council of the United Nations to condemn the attacks of the Syrian Government on peaceful demonstrators.United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague also removed invitation of Syrian Ambassador to marriage of today of Prince William and Kate Middleton of the London.European Union officials will meet in Brussels today to discuss the Syria. Germany supports sanctions on the direction of the Syria, including restrictions on travel and financial freezes, German Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told journalists in Berlin yesterday.

-Editors: Ben Holland, Karl Maier.

To contact the reporters on this story: Massoud a. Derhally to Beirut, to the Lebanon to the mderhally@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew j. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net

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Tanks in the town of Syria, body in the street Adraa: witness - Reuters

Credit: Reuters is unable to verify independently of the content this video, which was obtained in a social media site. Tanks and soldiers are considered allegedly near Deraa, where mass protests took place Sunday in this still image taken of sequences social networking sites, downloaded on April 24, 2011 amateur video. Thousands of Syrians called for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad Sunday at a funeral of demonstrators killed by security forces in the southern town of Nawa, 25 km (15 miles) North of the city of Deraasaid a witness. REUTERS/Social Media website via REUTERS TVBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN. Monday, April 25, 2011 4 pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops in tanks and armoured vehicles poured into the city of the South of Deraa and opened fire Monday, residents, said the latest bloodshed in a crackdown on the protests which have a strongly intensified these last days.

As the army tried to regain control of Deraa, where a month an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has erupted last month, said activists forces also stormed the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, which has seen large anti-Assad demonstrations.

Rights groups that the security forces have killed more than 350 civilians since the beginning of the disorders. One-third of the victims were killed in the course of three days as the magnitude and the scope of a popular revolt against El-Assad grew.

Assad lifted State of 48 years of the Syria of emergency Thursday, but activists say that violence the following day, when 100 people were killed during demonstrations across the country, showed that it was not seriously to respond to calls for political freedom.

Raids Monday on Deraa and the Duma showed that El-Assad, who took power when his father died in 2000 after having decided to Syria with a strong hand for 30 years, was determined to crush the opposition with force.

Residents said hundreds of soldiers Adraa arrived.

A witness told Reuters that he could see the body lying in a main street near the Omari mosque after eight tanks and two armoured vehicles deployed in the old quarter of the city.

"People are taking cover in homes." "I could see two-body near the mosque and nobody could come out and drag them later", the witness said.

Snipers were posted on government buildings and lattice of the army security forces had fired randomly at houses as the tanks moved in just after dawn prayers.

"They fired." Witnesses said that houses have become hospitals and have been five deaths so far, "an another Adraa resident named said Mohsen Al Jazeera, which has shown what appeared to be a cloud of black smoke over the city."

Tanks at the points of main entrance of the city were also bombing target in Deraa, said Mohsen. "People cannot pass from one street to another because of the bombing."

Foreign journalists have mainly been expelled from the country, making it impossible to verify the situation on the ground. Macabre images displayed on the Internet by protesters the past few days appear to show the troops firing on unarmed crowds. Officials have criticized armed violence groups.

"THE OUTRAGEOUS VIOLENCE."

Despite the deepening of his father Hafez Al-Assad's alliance with the Iran, back influence to the Lebanon and the support of militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, Al-Assad has kept the front line of the Syria with calm Israel and held the indirect peace talks with the Jewish State.

Western criticism of repression Assad, muted initially developed, has recently passed. President Barack Obama urged Assad Friday to stop the "scandalous use of violence" to repress the demonstrations

Main sects of the Syria writers all also released a statement denouncing the repression, a sign of anger surging through the intellectual elite.

Monday Declaration, signed by writers and journalists, Syria and exile, 102 intellectuals called a "which have not broken the barrier of fear to take a clear position."

"We condemn the practices violent, oppressive of the Syrian regime against protesters and mourn the martyrs of the insurgency."

Activists said the Government troops and armed men loyal to Assad shot dead at least 13 civilians since they swept into the Mediterranean town of Jabla Sunday, said the Syrian human rights observatory.

Forces and gunmen loyal to Assad deployment in the old Sunni neighbourhood of Jabla Sunday after a pro-democracy protest the previous night and a warning by the Governor of the province to residents not step to assemble publiclysaid rights activists.

The militants said they feared forces Assad also are preparing for an attack on the town of Nawa, North of Deraa, after reports of bulldozers and vehicles military topic there. Thousands of people called the overthrow of Assad Sunday at a funeral in Nawa to the demonstrators killed by security forces.

Electricity and communications have been cut in some parts of the city by night and residents, some armed, erected barricades in the streets to prepare to defend against an attack.

"Long live the Syria." "Down with Bashar!"lament chanted at the funeral. "Leave, leave!" "People want the overthrow of the regime".

Banias, South of Jabla, protest leaders said they would cut the coast road leading to less than the lifting of the siege of Jabla. Jabla is home to many members of Alawi minority Assad who were generally remained away from protests.

At least 100 people were killed across the Syria Friday, the restlessness, higher cost when shot demonstrators demanding political freedoms and put an end to corruption in their country, security forces ruled for 41 years by the Al-Assad dynasty.

Another 12 people were killed Saturday at funeral of massive for the demonstrators. And rights activists said secret police looted homes near Damascus and in the Centre of the city of Homs Sunday, arrest of militants.

(Other reports by Sami Aboudi in Cairo and Mahmoud Habboush Dubai;) Written by Dominic Evans. (Editing by Paul Taylor)

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The Syria must face of inquiry of the United Nations: rights group

A wounded demonstrator was taken to Damascus in this drawn image of an amateur video downloaded from social networking sites on Saturday. Thousands of Syrians have continued their protests Sunday the call for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. Reuters/Social Media via Reuters International TVAn website relating to the rights of the human group called Sunday for an investigation of the United Nations in the Suppression of the Syria on the demonstrators of the opposition which has left more than 120 people dead in recent days.

The New York - based Human Rights Watch also urged the United States and the European Union to impose sanctions against accused Syrian officials to use force against demonstrators contesting the authoritarian regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization for the rights of man in Syria, said the arrest was focused on the capital Damascus and suburbs and the Centre of the city of Homs, who has been a fertile ground for demonstrations.

"These people are not being orders in a legal way." They are either removed, "said Qurabi, asserting that the plainclothes security officers did not arrest official mandates."

Qurabi has no complete figures for detainees, but said at least 20 people were arrested in Homs. A resident in the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, said at least five people have been placed in detention

More than 300 people were killed - including more than 120 Friday and Saturday and Sunday in eight - since the uprising against the Assad regime has begun there, according to the groups of rights of five weeks. Friday was the day of the bloodiest since the uprising began with 112 killed, rights groups said.

A coalition of groups said Sunday 10 Syrian human rights authorities arrested an activist, Daniel Saud, who heads the committees for the defence of democracy, freedoms and human rights, one of the most important groups in Syria watchdog.

"To the strategy to draw to kill Syrian, authorities the international community must impose sanctions on those ordering the shooting of protesters."-Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch

Saud, who was arrested Saturday, lives in the coastal town of Banias, said a statement by groups.

As of Saturday evening, forces of Syrian security began to hold dozens of opposition activists and others in raids launched less than a week after the Assad regime abolishes the emergency laws used for decades to crush dissent.

"After the carnage of Friday, it is more enough to condemn the violence,", said Joe Stork, Deputy Director of Middle East for Human Rights Watch. "To the strategy to draw to kill Syrian authorities, the international community must impose sanctions on those ordering the shooting of demonstrators."

Earlier this month, Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, called on Assad to say he was "greatly disturbed" by reports of violence. Many Western leaders, including US President Barack Obama, condemned severe tactics of the Syria to suppress dissident.

On Sunday, police said 286 SANA State News Agency were wounded since the start of the insurgency. He gave no details.

Many of Saturday 13 killed were slaughtered while on their way to bury loved ones to attack a day earlier, witnesses said.

In the Centre of the city of Homs, where 19 people were killed Friday, a witness said the security forces did not all funeral out at the same time.

"Security officials decide when the deceased person, will be buried to avoid large funeral," the witness said.

In the South of the village of Izraa - where other people were killed Friday - a said witness chanting of some men in the village: "God may destroy Assad.".

Witness accounts could not independently confirmed because the Syria expelled journalists and limited access hot. Speaks of witnesses on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The protest movement has become the most serious threat to the Assad hold on power in one of the more strictly controlled in the Middle East.

Assad criticized most of the unrest on "foreign plot" and armed thugs trying to sow sectarian strife. Fears of bigotry are strong in Syria with the dangers of fractured societies so evident in Iraq and the Lebanon nearby.

'People are afraid to go out than to do something important.'-a Christian Iraqi in Syria

But may be emerging from the possible cracks within. Two lawmakers and a religious leader of the southern province Dara - where to begin the uprising - resigned Saturday to the rejection on the murders.

Internal antagonisms have added resonance since opposition figures were imprisoned or exiled during the 40 years of the Assad family dynasty.

Another walkout came Sunday when a provincial Dara member of the Council, Bassam al-Zamel, left his position to denounce violence.

"It is our duty to resign in protest," al-Zamel told Al-Jazeera TV.

Sunday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Britain advises against all travel to Syria violence. She added that "in view of the deterioration of security, British nationals in Syria, who have urgent steps must remain should leave by commercial means.".

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Canada Saturday advised Canadians against travel to the country and said Canadian living in Syria should leave by commercial facilities while they are still available.

Many Iraqi Christians, who fled to escape violence in their country of origin, in Syria did not attend Easter Masses Sunday because of the disorders.

Abu Fadi, an Iraqi Christian, stated that he and his family had attended midnight mass in a church in central Damascus for the past five years.

"This time, we and other families have decided to stay home and do not attend mass in the morning because of the tense and unstable situation in Syria." "People are afraid to come out, at least to do important things," said Abu Fadi, who did not use his real name because of fears of reprisals by the authorities.

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Canadians advised Syria of exit toll climbs

The Federal Government is advising Canadians to leave the Syria after that the security forces he killed at least 11 lament taking part in funeral processions Saturday for the demonstrators killed in anti-Government protests.

Reports of the killings, including the city of the South of Izraa and the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, were not independently confirmed because the Syria expelled foreign journalists.

Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization of the Syria for human rights, confirmed at least 11 dead Saturday. A total of 112 were killed Friday--regarded as the most deadly day of the uprising, with the security forces demonstrators back blows with bullets, tear gas and batons.

Violence and the likelihood of events more can, has prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Canada to advise Canadians against travel in the country and Syria Canadians to leave by commercial facilities while they are still available. The Ministry said those requiring emergency assistance should contact the Embassy of the Canada in Damascus.

Syrian anti-government demonstrators held a national flag bloodied during the procession on Saturday for activists murdered in Izraa. This image was captured on a phone mobile and sent to AP (Associated Press).

Over the past five weeks, the funeral of demonstrators were often transformed into anti-Government protests. During the procession on Saturday at Izraa, thousands of people chanted slogans against the regime of President Bashar Assad that they carried coffins through the streets.

Also Saturday, two members of Parliament and a religious leader resigns in protest against the killing of demonstrators during the uprising against Al-Assad.

The two legislators, Nasser Hariri and Khalil Rifai are Dara, a southern region that has triggered protests in mid-March. In contact with politicians, militants confirmed the resignation.

In addition, Sheikh Rizq Abdul Rahim Abazeid resigned his position as the mufti of Dara. "I cannot tolerate the blood of our innocent sons and children being handed over," he said.

Every Friday, a growing number of people in cities across the country took the streets despite the rapid attacks security forces.

The Suppression of heavy security Friday and Saturday came after Assad warned last week that any other disorders would be considered as "sabotage" after fact the gesture of lifting the State of emergency decades-old, who had given security forces close coverage for surveillance and arrest powers.

Unable to find in Syria and other foreign journalists have prevented access to problem areas, a large part of the statement in the country has depended on video footage phone distributed by the activists of the opposition.

Syrian human rights groups have called on the Government to establish a Commission of judicial inquiry to prosecute those who fired on demonstrators and release all political prisoners.

Some 300 people have been killed since the uprising began last month.

Several leaders have condemned the repression against the demonstrators.

"This disgraceful use of violence to suppress the demonstrations must be completed today," the US President Barack Obama, said Friday.

Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, urged the Syrian Government to stop the "bloodbath", allow to media freedoms and free "all prisoners of conscience".

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Syria removes the head of the restive City police - Reuters

Demonstrators holding banners during a protest in the town of Banias, Syrian port on April 19, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/HandoutBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN. Wed, April 20, 2011 9: 00 am EDT

AMMAN (AFP) - the Chief of police in the Syrian city of Banias, was removed from the security, a rights group said Wednesday, after five civilians were killed in a campaign of repression against pro-democracy protests there last week.

The Syrian Observatory of human rights, citing sources in Damascus, the name of the agent as Amjad Abbas. The security forces had sealed off the city weekend after protests against President Bashar al-Assad and an attack by irregular forces loyal to El-Assad on the people who keep a Sunni mosque.

Inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, demonstrators took the streets more than a month demanding more freedoms, undaunted by a security crackdown.

Rights groups, who say more than 200 have been killed since the unrest began a month ago, have called for independent investigations into the actions of the security forces.

The last approach seemed another attempt to appease protesters, who has rejected appeals by the authorities to stop the demonstration and ignored a concession by the Government which approved legislation Tuesday to end the State of emergency in force for 48 years.

Abbas had been identified by the Banias residents said Observatory, the officer fired, as one of the security officers seen beating a villager in the town nearby Baida, according to a video.

With the Bill on the right of emergency, the newly appointed cabinet also approved legislation requires that the Syrians to obtain the permission of the State until they demonstrate.

DEFIANT PROTESTS

Hours earlier, the Ministry of the Interior asked citizens to refrain from protest to all the. Activists said the statement by the Ministry and the fact that the authorities Tuesday night arrested a figure of the left-wing opposition suggest move of the Government to lift the emergency law stop not repression.

The Defiant protests continued overnight, including in the suburbs of Damascus in Zabadane where demonstrators called "the fall of the regime" and for freedom, the rallying cry revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

There are also sit-in in Jabla on the coast, women Barzeh Damascus rally and candlelight procession in such near the capital of the day to the next.

Homs, soldiers and irregular forces loyal to Assad dressed in black patrolled the road between two central squares, witnesses said. Shops is remained closed to protest more than 20 demonstrators was shot dead by security forces in the city since Monday, they said.

In the second city of the Syria, Aleppo, irregular forces Assad dispersed a small demonstration at the University of the city, beating several students and arresting 37, said rights activist.

The State Department, said the new law, apply for permits to hold demonstrations do not clear if the end of the State of emergency would be a less restrictive government.

A semi-official newspaper quoted an official source saying that assad would issue orders confirming the decisions of the Government, which also include the dissolution of the Supreme Court of the State of security, on Wednesday.

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Four killed in Syria cut the city - New York Times

The army had sealed off the city that hundreds of demonstrators gathered, undaunted by use of the Government of the force for more than three weeks of unrest, witnesses said. Television reported State that nine soldiers were killed in an ambush near the town.

Because telephone lines, electricity and Internet access were apparently cut to most of the regions of Banias details were incomplete. Soldiers and tanks from the army surrounded the city, prevent people from entering to the.

But a witness, reached by telephone, said hundreds of protesters had gathered near the al-Rahman Mosque, when forces of security with men in open civilian clothing fire armed. The names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque.

Dozens of people were injured, the witness said, but most of them have asked to be treated at a small clinic instead of the main hospital of the city, which was under the control of the security forces.

As most people who were interviewed, the witness requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government. Several human rights activists, also citing witnesses, reported the shootings Sunday, Banias is 185 kilometres northwest of Damascus, the capital.

"There are demonstrations throughout the city, and people are chanting against the regime, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80, a lawyer and activist for the rights of the man who has spent years as a political prisoner in Syria."

The accounts could not be confirmed independently. The Government imposed severe restrictions on the coverage of news and many journalists, including Associated Press, were ordered to leave the country.

Demonstrations broke out in Syria, more than three weeks ago and have experienced steady growth, with tens of thousands of people calling for major reforms in a Government authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad.

More than 170 people were killed, human rights groups function.

The Government accuses the bands armed violence and pledged to crush any further unrest. Sunday, rogue reported State television were behind the killing of nine soldiers in an ambush near Banias.

The television report said armed men hiding among the trees along a road fired at the soldiers, and it broadcasts images of an ambulance and other civilian vehicles coming under fire along the road.

Sunday, Assad said that the country was "" to go forward on the road to comprehensive reforms", reported the State News Agency, Sana." In recent weeks, Mr. Assad responded to the protesters with force and limited concessions which have failed to appease the.

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the 4 demonstrators killed in Syria: witnesses

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad posters decorate a street in Damascus. The leader has yet to lift the old state of several decades of emergency. Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty

A witness said of the Syrian security forces killed four demonstrators and wounded dozens in a coastal city.

The witness stated that the names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque Sunday in the city of port of Banias. He said most of the shooting took place in the neighbourhood of Ras al-Nabeh. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government.

Details were incomplete, because the telephone lines, internet access and electricity were apparently slaughtered most of the parts of the city. Soldiers and tanks from the army surrounded the city, prevent people from entering to the.

But a witness, reached by telephone, said hundreds of demonstrators were gathered near the al-Rahman Mosque when security forces and armed men in civilian clothes open fire on them. The names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque.

He said dozens of people were injured, but most of them asked to be treated at a small clinic instead of to the main hospital, which, as under the control of safety feared forces.

Several other human rights activists, also citing witnesses, reported shooting at Banias Sunday.

"There are demonstrations throughout the city and people are chanting against the regime, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80 years and long-time rights activist lawyer who spent years as a prisoner politics Syria."

Also Sunday, State television reported what the thugs ambushed and killed nine police officers near Banias, 300 kilometres northwest of Damascus.

The report said armed men hiding among the trees along a road turned to the police, and it broadcasts images of ambulance and other civilian vehicles coming under fire on the same road.

Independent reports disappeared from Syria, that the Government has imposed severe restrictions on the coverage of news and many journalists were ordered to leave the country.

Demonstrations broke out in Syria, more than three weeks ago and have experienced steady growth each week, with tens of thousands of people are calling for substantial reforms in the regime authoritarian President Bashar Assad.

More than 170 people were killed, human rights groups function.

Assad has made a statement Sunday the country "will forward on the road to comprehensive reforms," said the State SANA news agency.

A key of demonstrators demand is an end to a decades-old emergency law which gives the regime arrested persons free hands-free. But al-Assad has stopped far demands of the demonstrators.

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Syria wishes stiff response to civil unrest - CNN

Amnesty International: most of the dead appear was killed by Dr. forcesA security tells CNN 22 civil unarmed died in Syrian DaraaThe, official news agency reported 19 of the security forces were killed.

(CNN) - the Syria Government said Saturday its intentions to crack down hard on what he describes as violent disorders by the instigators of the outside.

"There is no more place for clemency and tolerance in the application of the law", said the Ministry of the Interior.

The tough statement comes in a report of clashes in the West coastal city of Latakia on Saturday. A human rights activist, said Saturday that responsible for the hospital has he used live bullets to disperse demonstrators.

The Syria made the statement after protests generalized Friday and near Dara and Latakia, Banias, Qamishli, Homs, Duma, Moathamia, Daraya, Tal and Hama.

Protesters have been saying that their peaceful belching have been met with force by Syrian security.

The national organization for the rights of man in Syria, a group of militants, has identified 37 people killed across the country Friday. He said security forces used tear gas and firing on unarmed civilians made dozens of arrests and a descent in the houses. A witness said at least 22 unarmed civilians were killed in Dara.

Wissam tariff, a human rights activist, city responsible for the hospital as saying that the demonstrators to Latakia were treated early Saturday for injuries by live bullet. He also said funerals were planned to Dara Saturday for the demonstrators, who died Friday and said witnesses spoke of arrests in Damascus and Aleppo.

But the Syria accuses the instigators and saboteurs to infiltrate peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes. For example, the Government said 19 security forces were killed in Dara Friday and dozens of others were injured in violence caused by gunfire "armed groups" citizens and non-"security forces".

The Government is aware of the widespread condemnation and international to the Syria and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, explains the position of the Government to foreign ambassadors in Damascus, according to the official Syrian Arab news agency or SANA.

The Ministry of the Interior noted that protesters took the streets with applications quickly addressed by the Government, which announced orders and responses to various grievances.

However, there are some malicious people, foreigners and those who have been forced by the known foreign parties, accompanied by flagrant incitement by satellite channels and internet sites, which did not like initiatives and responses to citizens requires only carried out "said the Ministry.

The Ministry said attackers burned down military and official establishments and security personnel "always committed to not to open fire" have been killed and wounded. He urged citizens to identify "criminals" responsible and report them to authorities.

"It became apparent that these individuals do not reform want and are not affected by the popular application, or banning the use of weapons, taking advantage of the latter and to infiltrate demonstrators or people to see off the coast of martyrs." "They began to open fire randomly to cause a schism between citizens and security personnel," the Ministry said.

Anti-Government protests began in mid-March, with stirring first centering in Dara region, and spread later in other regions of the country.

Dozens of people died, and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been criticized for deadly force against anti-government protesters.

US President Barack Obama said Friday that "it is time that the Syrian Government to stop repressing its citizens and to listen to the voice of the Syrian people, calling for political and economic reforms meaningful."

Amnesty International said no armed people call "for more freedoms were allegedly attacked by security forces firing actual bullets."

"The alarming reports from today show Syria that the authorities have not modified their violent methods to deal with dissent," said Philip Luther, Director Assistant of the program of Amnesty International's Africa of North and Middle East.

Amnesty said Friday that at least 171 people are supposed to have been killed in the last three weeks of protest.

Abuse in Syria have long been alleged in the international arena, before even the protests began last month.

The US State Department report was published just 2010 human rights, said last year committed security forces Syrian "unlawful killings, political and human rights activists detained and tortured and physically abused prisoners and detainees with impunity."

Government opponents argue the massive violations of human rights and call for political and economic reforms. They also want the release of all political prisoners and at the end of the emergency law.

An application has been the lifting of the 48 years of the country emergency law.

The emergency law authorizes the Government to carry out preventive arrests and override constitutional and the laws of the penal code. In force since 1963, it also prevents the detainees who were not charged to file complaints to the Court and to have a lawyer present during interrogation.

Al-Assad indicated that it is capable of reform and that it has formed a Committee to study the lifting of the emergency law. He also announced Syrian nationality to thousands of people in the region of the Kurdish country which had been stripped of their citizenship and classified as "foreign". Salma Abdelaziz of CNN has contributed to this report.

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