Syrian security opened fire on demonstrators on the City - The Daily Star site

Beirut - Syrian Police early Tuesday reportedly opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who had occupied a key place in the Syrian city of Homs earlier hours to demand the resignation of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

The shooting was the latest sign that the rebellion of anti-Assad months continues to grow.

Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite news channel, reported that the demonstrators dispersed after the shooting. Chain report said at least two people were injured, but the number of dead and injured is perhaps higher. The chain said its correspondent reported that those injured were afraid to go to the hospital.

Protesters had said they planned the overnight camp in place, and thousands had gathered there Monday after a funeral for eight demonstrators who were killed in the city Sunday during clashes with the police.

Government restricted Assad a struggle between the brutal repression and attacks on demonstrators that left many analysts of events Syrians grip to explain if the response is an effort to curb the worst abuses of the regime or a sign of confusion within the Government on how to respond to a movement which appears to be intimidated.

Nadim Houry, an analyst based in Beirut to Human Rights Watch, which followed the Syria for six years, said he believes that confusion arose in part because the Assad regime has always been able to support that he left to the power guarantee stability in the volatile region. But continuous protests have questioned on this promise.

Add to the confusion, it is that every time that El-Assad offered the reforms, it was followed by a wave of repression.

"The Government is trying to negotiate, but the social contract (the promise of stability) is broken" Houry said. "And people have no reason to believe the promises of reform."

Video on YouTube of protests Sunday in Homs showed blood on the ground with the noise of machine guns and bullets. In another video, crowds of men along what appears to be a rural Street and crawl on the ground, as bullets whiz fresh General.

Monday, a YouTube video showed what purported to be the funeral of one of the demonstrators. The crowd, composed exclusively of men, chanted "one!" One! One! The Syrian people is a! ?

It is virtually impossible to authenticate the source of the videos. The Syrians that display online images remain anonymous for fear of reprisals from the Government. Homs witnesses could not be reached for comment.

Assad recently promised that the Government would end soon the emergency law that allows him to stop and arrest citizens. Whenever he made the pledge, police followed by roving the streets and shooting protesters.

The Government has also announced it would grant citizenship to the Kurdish population, but this is widely seen as attempt to prevent the estimated Kurds live in the limbo to join demonstrations. Assad has also replaced half of his Cabinet, but he stacked with loyalists.

The result has been the only increase calls for demonstrations and more.

"People will not come back." People are, in the streets, every day, said Marah Bukai, founder and President of Al goods Institute of Humanitarian Studies in Washington.

"People are determined to obtain their freedom," said Bukai.

"This system does not meet the requirements of the population and particularly young Syrians." We ask for a change. We need to be a democratic country, led by a democratic system, "said Mazen Darwish, a militant in Damascus." "We need to see our developing countries, and a civilized country".

A group of the city of the South of Dara - where the protests first erupted he ya - one months, issued a statement that called for the repeal of emergency legislation, democratic elections, presidential term limit, freedom of expression and an independent judiciary.

On Saturday, Al-Assad delivered a speech in his new Cabinet promising the right urgency should be repealed less than a week, but it also means that dissent would not be tolerated.

"We will be not lenient towards sabotage," he told state television.

Human rights groups estimate at least 220 people died in the uprising of months, including eight Sunday.

Al-Assad, an ophthalmologist formed in Britain, came to power in 2001 following the death of his father, who led the country for almost 30 years. It has gained in popularity in the Arab world and Syria for appearing to take a stand against the West, including the United States and Israel, but has attracted the ire of Washington. The Obama administration nervously monitors the situation in Syria, which shares its borders with five U.S. strategic partners: Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel.

(Bossone is corresponding special McClatchy.) (Cairo contributed Nancy a. Youssef and special correspondent Sabry Mohannad.)

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Report: Mubarak denies giving the order to shoot demonstrators of the Egypt - Ha'aretz

Stripped of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said investigators questioning on charges of corruption never awarded order of draw or beat protestors who demanded his eviction, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported, said Radio Israel.

When questioned, Mubarak said that he had asked the army to intervene in violent clashes to safeguard and protect the Egyptian people. Mubarak added that if someone said that he gave the order to shoot at demonstrators, while this person is a liar.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, announcing that he will leave in the next elections, in a televised speech to the nation, February 1, 2011.

Between January 25 and February 11, millions of Egyptians filled the streets of cities across the country, in protest against the railway as a rule show with 30 years of Mubarak. After 18 days, Mubarak has finally succumbed to popular pressure and abandoned the reins of power, to resign from his duties.

Since that time, Mubarak and his family have been to one of their houses located holiday in the Sinai resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh. He has been banned from travelling and its assets were frozen. Many of his senior aides have already been questioned or detained pending investigations.

Mubarak also told investigators that he intended to resign as well before him. He said he was satisfied not to smoke when he wanted, four days after protests started, because he had been advised that protesters wanted only the resignation of his cabinet, and that without him, Egypt would be falling into chaos.

There were conflicting reports coming from Al-Masry Al-Youm on the health of Mubarak, Israel Radio reported. Since the arrest of Mubarak, his psychological condition began to deteriorate. But doctors say that he does not have cancer, or any other deadly disease, and that physical health is good.

Mubarak was taken to an intensive care unit Tuesday after having suffered a heart attack during interrogation on charges of corruption, AFP reported Tuesday.

Dozens of protesters picketed at the Hospital where Mubarak was taken, denouncing the President and carrying a sign reading "here's the butcher". They had with Mubarak supporters in a massive security presence.

Security two officials said Mubarak arrived under police protection heavy at the main hospital and two doctors at the hospital, he is out of his naked armored Mercedes and was taken to the presidential suite in the building in the shape of pyramid.

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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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Yemen Police fire on demonstrators in all countries - voice of America

VOA News, April 05, 2011 anti-government demonstrators carrying a fellow protester wounded in Sanaa, April 5, 2011

Yemeni security forces are on alert across the country, that the demonstrators continue demonstrations designed to eliminate President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the power.

Witnesses say security undercover troops opened fire on anti-government demonstrators, in the city of the South of Taiz Tuesday a day after clashes there left 17 dead.

Separate clashes between demonstrators and security forces were also reported in the capital Sanaa and the town of Hodeida in the Red Sea

Monday, six people were killed in Hodeida after police fired on a protesters marching toward the Presidential Palace there.

In Washington, the US State Department called the violence in the Yemen "appalling" in the signs of pressure mounting on President Ali Abdullah Saleh U.S. leaders to relinquish power.

The New York Times, said that the United States is abandoning its support for a long time for Saleh and negotiate the terms of his departure. Unidentified American and Yemeni officials were cited as saying that the US position has changed more than a week earlier, when the negotiations began. The State Department would not confirm the reports.

A spokesman for the Yemeni opposition said U.S. and European diplomats were in contact with Saleh and anti-Government leaders also asked for their "vision" for a transition.

In response, the opposition Saturday gave us authorities a proposal which Saleh resign immediately and hand over power to a temporary Government headed by Vice President Abd al - Rab Mansur al-Hadi until new elections are held. The plan also requires that the security forces be restructured under a "transitional military Council".

The Gulf Arab States invited representatives of Government and the Yemeni opposition in the talks in Saudi Arabia. Saleh gave no sign of compromise in continuing street demonstrations.

The Yemeni President, in power for 32 years, has offered to resign but only after new elections are held. The end of his term in 2013.

Yemen saw more in bloody protests against the leader for a long time since end of January. Saleh has recently called upon to put an end to the protests and said that he is willing to discuss the peaceful transfer of power "of" the constitution.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.

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