Friday, March 25, 2011

Bloody Protests: Opposition speaks of more than 100 dead in Syria

In the case of clashes between protesters and security forces in Syria apparently far more people had been killed than first thought. The opposition speaks of a hundred victims. Hospitals reported 25 dead - all showed gunshot wounds. Security forces in Syria go brutally against demonstrators.
In the clashes could be far more people died than previously known. According to the opposition, the number of victims of the recent unrest is at least a hundred. This information is made eye-witnesses and civil rights activists on Thursday after the security forces had beaten the day before the protests against the government throughout the state Daraa Southern Syrians.


According to hospital data 25 government opponents were killed, all the deaths reported accordingly to gunshot wounds. On Wednesday evening the authorities were still forecasting 15 dead. About 20,000 people take, according to government opponents on Thursday at the funeral of the victims part.

The officers had used live ammunition, according to the opposition and tear gas against a sit-in around the Al-Omari Mosque. "The Power failed, and immediately shots were heard," said one of the activists. The Arab League for Human Rights, said that the Syrian authorities had arrested since beginning of the week several prominent activists, including a well-known writer who had declared their solidarity with the demonstrators in Daraa.

Loay Hussein was seized on Tuesday at his home in Damascus, his computer was confiscated, said the head of the organization, Abdul Karim al Rihawial Rihawi. Another activist was fixed in Daraa. UN Secretary-General condemns violence of state power, the Al-Omari Mosque stands for days in the center of Syrian protest movement.

Some protesters there have already pitched tents to their demands for more freedom vigorously. UN Secretary General Ban condemned the actions of the security forces and called for a "transparent investigation" of the incidents. The Syrian authorities would have to renounce violence and respect human rights, including the right to freedom of assembly.

Since Friday it is in Daraa daily protests against the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad. In recent days, six demonstrators were killed. According to eyewitnesses, there was on Wednesday in the nearby towns and Noa Dschassem protests. France urged Syria on Wednesday for an end to violence against demonstrators.

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