A new revolt in Syria, is added to the "springtime of freedom" in the Arab world. Like the others, bears a date: "March 15". And since yesterday has its first victims. The news of four or six dead, according to the contradictory voices that run on social media, arrived on the fourth day of protests called by opposition sites.
Yesterday, on Friday is prayer day, the date of the applicant in the Arab street rallies, Facebook sites have proclaimed a "Day of Dignity". Hundreds of Syrians took to the streets of several cities: a Da'ara in the South, not far from the capital Banyas where an imam has harangued a thousand supporters from the balcony, in Tartous, along the coast, and Homs, in ' East The clashes occurred as hardest Da'ara.
There is talk of stone-throwing, car fires, shootings by special forces and helicopters deployed over the city. The access roads to the ancient center, subjected to curfews, have been detained. The wounded would be hundreds, dozens of arrests. The protest has also affected the capital, when a group of men chanted slogans in the Great Umayyad Mosque.
A series of demonstrations will be repeated when, on Tuesday, was organized a sit-in ended with 32 arrests, outside the Ministry of the Interior to demand the release of political prisoners. The event was followed by a general amnesty was promulgated on 8 March, but that had excluded political prisoners under the age of 70 years, only the elderly Heitham al-Maleh, one of the most obstinate opponents of the regime, had been freed .
While young people ask "freedom, dignity" and the end state of emergency, appeals to the uprising are from abroad. A television financed by the former vice president Khaddam, and a network of Facebook pages titled Syrian Revolution 2011, with contacts in Turkey, they call the 'Intifada' and give instructions to continue to organize sit-ins permanent. 
Yesterday, on Friday is prayer day, the date of the applicant in the Arab street rallies, Facebook sites have proclaimed a "Day of Dignity". Hundreds of Syrians took to the streets of several cities: a Da'ara in the South, not far from the capital Banyas where an imam has harangued a thousand supporters from the balcony, in Tartous, along the coast, and Homs, in ' East The clashes occurred as hardest Da'ara.
There is talk of stone-throwing, car fires, shootings by special forces and helicopters deployed over the city. The access roads to the ancient center, subjected to curfews, have been detained. The wounded would be hundreds, dozens of arrests. The protest has also affected the capital, when a group of men chanted slogans in the Great Umayyad Mosque.
A series of demonstrations will be repeated when, on Tuesday, was organized a sit-in ended with 32 arrests, outside the Ministry of the Interior to demand the release of political prisoners. The event was followed by a general amnesty was promulgated on 8 March, but that had excluded political prisoners under the age of 70 years, only the elderly Heitham al-Maleh, one of the most obstinate opponents of the regime, had been freed .
While young people ask "freedom, dignity" and the end state of emergency, appeals to the uprising are from abroad. A television financed by the former vice president Khaddam, and a network of Facebook pages titled Syrian Revolution 2011, with contacts in Turkey, they call the 'Intifada' and give instructions to continue to organize sit-ins permanent.
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