BEIRUT - The protest widespread worries the regime in Syria, to compel the president of one of the most immovable regimes of the Middle East to announce a series of radical reforms, largely the result of the requests of thousands of people these days have shown in city of Dara, in the south, suffering the crackdown by the security forces.
At least one hundred people died in clashes in recent days, according to the complaint of the opposition. But Assad assures, "I have given orders to shoot." And in the evening, also announced he had given the order to release all the arrested protesters during the unrest of recent days.
Social reforms. Among the promises announced today by Bashar al-Assad is also creating a special commission to prepare an action plan against corruption, to raising the salaries of civil servants and the distribution of subsidies in health, and to create new jobs for young people. These are the points of the package of social reforms announced today by presidential adviser Buthayna Shaaban, quoted by the pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV.
The violence in the streets. After the events of Dara, harshly repressed by the security forces in Damascus, Assad assures that it is not directly responsible for the violence that have been documented with video amateur inevitably ended up on the web. Shown by Arab television Al Jazeera, the movie opens with a crowd marching toward a police cordon shouting "at peace, in peace," then feel intense rounds of gunfire followed by confusion.
WATCH THE VIDEO Tension still high. Were at least a hundred, according to the story of militants, the victims of the uprising. Syrian medical sources quoted by the pan-Arab television Al Arabiya, have instead stated that during the assault launched by the Syrian security forces have killed 25 people, including 15 residents, including one child, a woman and a doctor.
According to the Center for Human Rights in Syria, however, would be at least 36 victims. According to reports the pan-Arab daily Asharq al Awsat, quoting eyewitnesses, "the Syrian troops fired anti-riot gas cartridges that affect the nervous system and paralyze the body" against the demonstrators.
Killed by military intelligence men. Some Syrian military intelligence were killed, with three gunshot wounds, Kahled al-Masri, a young soldier who yesterday refused to take part in the assault on the mosque of Omar in Dara. He reports the facebook page of the Syrian opposition, 'The Syrian Revolution 2011', explaining that the young man's body was delivered to his family who now lives in Talkalkh, near Homs in central Syria.
Many of those arrested. The human rights organization based in London has prepared "a list of 93 people, including minors and five women arrested between 8 and 23 March in Damascus, Aleppo, Banias, Dara, Duma, Hama, Homs, Latakia, an Maarrat Naaman and Malkiya, all held in undisclosed locations.
"" The actual number of arrests could be much higher, "says the Amnesty report, citing Syrian human rights organization, that" only to Dara, in the five days preceding the attack on the Mosque of Omar, were arrested about 300 people. " The Damascus correspondent of the pan-Arab daily Asharq al Awsat also reports this morning that in one day yesterday, during an assault by security forces at the Omari Mosque in Dara, "hundreds of people were arrested, transferred to the prison Laghz to north "of the southern city.
In handcuffs also a journalist. The human rights activist Mazen Darwish was arrested yesterday evening by the Syrian authorities. Mazen Darwish, 37, is a journalist, president of the Syrian Centre for the press and freedom of expression and a member of Reporters Without Borders said. The organization has condemned the arrest of blogger Ahmad Hadifa, 28 years.
Tomorrow 'Friday of dignity. "Summoned for tomorrow a series of pro-democracy demonstrations in Syria. The organizers, who made the announcement of the protests on the Web, asking broad participation. This was reported by Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, adding that the protesters have dubbed the day tomorrow as the 'Friday the dignity'.
The charges to Jordan. Syria implicitly accuses Jordan of being involved in the "riot" and "acts of vandalism" in the south of the country attributed to "an armed gang of foreign infiltrators" in Daraa, theater for a week of unprecedented protests against the Baathist regime, in power for almost half a century.
Without directly naming Jordan, Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al Utri today confirmed the charge to "foreign parties" to "exploit their own citizens for events that advance legitimate claims," but compared to what was stated yesterday by the government media of Damascus, added that "neighboring countries have their own agendas that are now beginning to unfold." The protest triggered by drawings of children.
Protests erupted in Daraa were ignited by slogans against the regime in Damascus on the walls written by some children in the city. According to the Financial Times reported today, the children have written slogans inspired by the images broadcast on television during the riots in the Arab world.
An act punishable by imprisonment of children, which then sparked the protests of family members. This would be the spark street protests against the government in the course of a day Dara, resulted in clashes with security forces. Concern by the Foreign Ministry. The news of at least one hundred people killed by the police, "if it occurred is very alarming," the foreign ministry sources say.
The government has been learned, "closely monitoring" the situation in Syria and hopes, "along with other European partners," to be found "forms of dialogue between institutions and civil society" to help "the country's stability." 
At least one hundred people died in clashes in recent days, according to the complaint of the opposition. But Assad assures, "I have given orders to shoot." And in the evening, also announced he had given the order to release all the arrested protesters during the unrest of recent days.
Social reforms. Among the promises announced today by Bashar al-Assad is also creating a special commission to prepare an action plan against corruption, to raising the salaries of civil servants and the distribution of subsidies in health, and to create new jobs for young people. These are the points of the package of social reforms announced today by presidential adviser Buthayna Shaaban, quoted by the pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV.
The violence in the streets. After the events of Dara, harshly repressed by the security forces in Damascus, Assad assures that it is not directly responsible for the violence that have been documented with video amateur inevitably ended up on the web. Shown by Arab television Al Jazeera, the movie opens with a crowd marching toward a police cordon shouting "at peace, in peace," then feel intense rounds of gunfire followed by confusion.
WATCH THE VIDEO Tension still high. Were at least a hundred, according to the story of militants, the victims of the uprising. Syrian medical sources quoted by the pan-Arab television Al Arabiya, have instead stated that during the assault launched by the Syrian security forces have killed 25 people, including 15 residents, including one child, a woman and a doctor.
According to the Center for Human Rights in Syria, however, would be at least 36 victims. According to reports the pan-Arab daily Asharq al Awsat, quoting eyewitnesses, "the Syrian troops fired anti-riot gas cartridges that affect the nervous system and paralyze the body" against the demonstrators.
Killed by military intelligence men. Some Syrian military intelligence were killed, with three gunshot wounds, Kahled al-Masri, a young soldier who yesterday refused to take part in the assault on the mosque of Omar in Dara. He reports the facebook page of the Syrian opposition, 'The Syrian Revolution 2011', explaining that the young man's body was delivered to his family who now lives in Talkalkh, near Homs in central Syria.
Many of those arrested. The human rights organization based in London has prepared "a list of 93 people, including minors and five women arrested between 8 and 23 March in Damascus, Aleppo, Banias, Dara, Duma, Hama, Homs, Latakia, an Maarrat Naaman and Malkiya, all held in undisclosed locations.
"" The actual number of arrests could be much higher, "says the Amnesty report, citing Syrian human rights organization, that" only to Dara, in the five days preceding the attack on the Mosque of Omar, were arrested about 300 people. " The Damascus correspondent of the pan-Arab daily Asharq al Awsat also reports this morning that in one day yesterday, during an assault by security forces at the Omari Mosque in Dara, "hundreds of people were arrested, transferred to the prison Laghz to north "of the southern city.
In handcuffs also a journalist. The human rights activist Mazen Darwish was arrested yesterday evening by the Syrian authorities. Mazen Darwish, 37, is a journalist, president of the Syrian Centre for the press and freedom of expression and a member of Reporters Without Borders said. The organization has condemned the arrest of blogger Ahmad Hadifa, 28 years.
Tomorrow 'Friday of dignity. "Summoned for tomorrow a series of pro-democracy demonstrations in Syria. The organizers, who made the announcement of the protests on the Web, asking broad participation. This was reported by Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, adding that the protesters have dubbed the day tomorrow as the 'Friday the dignity'.
The charges to Jordan. Syria implicitly accuses Jordan of being involved in the "riot" and "acts of vandalism" in the south of the country attributed to "an armed gang of foreign infiltrators" in Daraa, theater for a week of unprecedented protests against the Baathist regime, in power for almost half a century.
Without directly naming Jordan, Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al Utri today confirmed the charge to "foreign parties" to "exploit their own citizens for events that advance legitimate claims," but compared to what was stated yesterday by the government media of Damascus, added that "neighboring countries have their own agendas that are now beginning to unfold." The protest triggered by drawings of children.
Protests erupted in Daraa were ignited by slogans against the regime in Damascus on the walls written by some children in the city. According to the Financial Times reported today, the children have written slogans inspired by the images broadcast on television during the riots in the Arab world.
An act punishable by imprisonment of children, which then sparked the protests of family members. This would be the spark street protests against the government in the course of a day Dara, resulted in clashes with security forces. Concern by the Foreign Ministry. The news of at least one hundred people killed by the police, "if it occurred is very alarming," the foreign ministry sources say.
The government has been learned, "closely monitoring" the situation in Syria and hopes, "along with other European partners," to be found "forms of dialogue between institutions and civil society" to help "the country's stability."
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