The announcement on the eve of democratizing measures such as the annulment of the state of emergency in force since 1963, anticorruption initiatives, release of opposition and the officials in wage increases, there seems to have calmed the popular protest against the authoritarian regime led by the country for 40.
Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez in 2000. The protests continued in Deraa (epicenter of the revolt which has killed tens of people since March 18), and extended to Sanamein, Daael (south), Damascus, Duma, Banias and Hama, where a revolt of the Muslim Brotherhood was bloodily suppressed in 1980, according to human rights activists.
Videos posted on YouTube show demonstrations Homs (northeast), where participants pulled photos of Hafez al-Assad, and Latakia. Opponents also say there were in Deir ez Zor and Raqa (northeast). Ten people were killed in Sanamein during clashes with security forces, said an official who requested anonymity and declined to give details about what happened in this city near Deraa, a hundred miles south of Damascus.
According to a witness, killing 20 protesters. He explained that opponents threw stones at the headquarters of the Military Security, which responded by opening fire. Deraa clashes also broke out, said a witness who speaks at least four dead and 20 injured. According to a Syrian human rights activist who requested anonymity, security forces fired on protesters when they tore down a statue of Hafez al-Assad and set it on fire.
He also tore a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad. The human rights advocates on Wednesday reported 100 killed in demonstrations in Deraa, a farming town of 75 000 inhabitants. But according to Amnesty International, 55 people died during the week of protests in Deraa and its surroundings.
To celebrate this "Day of Dignity" launched on Facebook, hundreds of people demonstrated in Damascus after attending a prayer in the mosque of the Umayyads. They marched to chants of "Deraa is Syria," "God, Syria, freedom and nothing more." But counter-demonstrations erupted and thousands of supporters of the regime took to the streets to express their support for President.
"With our blood and our soul, we sacrifice for Bashar" Assad, shouting. Throughout the city, circulating cars whose passengers waved Syrian flags and photos of the president. Some vans broadcast patriotic songs. According to an official Syrian anti-regime demonstrators killed an employee of a military club in Homs.
In a statement on Facebook, "the Syrian Youth Union" called "Bashar al-Assad and his regime members to resign" and to establish a "transitional government composed of all components of the people." United States again condemned "strong" violence in Syria. UK said he was "very concerned" and France considered that no democracy could take shots against peaceful demonstrators. 
Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez in 2000. The protests continued in Deraa (epicenter of the revolt which has killed tens of people since March 18), and extended to Sanamein, Daael (south), Damascus, Duma, Banias and Hama, where a revolt of the Muslim Brotherhood was bloodily suppressed in 1980, according to human rights activists.
Videos posted on YouTube show demonstrations Homs (northeast), where participants pulled photos of Hafez al-Assad, and Latakia. Opponents also say there were in Deir ez Zor and Raqa (northeast). Ten people were killed in Sanamein during clashes with security forces, said an official who requested anonymity and declined to give details about what happened in this city near Deraa, a hundred miles south of Damascus.
According to a witness, killing 20 protesters. He explained that opponents threw stones at the headquarters of the Military Security, which responded by opening fire. Deraa clashes also broke out, said a witness who speaks at least four dead and 20 injured. According to a Syrian human rights activist who requested anonymity, security forces fired on protesters when they tore down a statue of Hafez al-Assad and set it on fire.
He also tore a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad. The human rights advocates on Wednesday reported 100 killed in demonstrations in Deraa, a farming town of 75 000 inhabitants. But according to Amnesty International, 55 people died during the week of protests in Deraa and its surroundings.
To celebrate this "Day of Dignity" launched on Facebook, hundreds of people demonstrated in Damascus after attending a prayer in the mosque of the Umayyads. They marched to chants of "Deraa is Syria," "God, Syria, freedom and nothing more." But counter-demonstrations erupted and thousands of supporters of the regime took to the streets to express their support for President.
"With our blood and our soul, we sacrifice for Bashar" Assad, shouting. Throughout the city, circulating cars whose passengers waved Syrian flags and photos of the president. Some vans broadcast patriotic songs. According to an official Syrian anti-regime demonstrators killed an employee of a military club in Homs.
In a statement on Facebook, "the Syrian Youth Union" called "Bashar al-Assad and his regime members to resign" and to establish a "transitional government composed of all components of the people." United States again condemned "strong" violence in Syria. UK said he was "very concerned" and France considered that no democracy could take shots against peaceful demonstrators.
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