DAMASCUS - More unrest in Daraa, 100 kilometers south of Damascus, where security forces have stepped up repression against anti-government activists. At least 15 people, including a 11 year old girl, were killed in clashes between security forces and activists of the movement for human rights who celebrated the funeral of two of the 12 victims of the assault of police at the Omari Mosque.
Witnesses said police opened fire on hundreds of young people trying to reach the city from the North: "They shot and the bodies fell on the road." After days of violence, the French government to intervene with a warning to Assad. Syria must renounce to the 'excessive use of force "against demonstrators," said French Foreign Ministry Alain Juppe.
Paris also condemned "the violence that resulted in deaths and injuries" last night in Dera. In this scenario came the official confirmation of a decision that is talked about for some time: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has declared the resignation of the governor of Dara, Faysal Kulthum.
According to denounce human rights groups, at least six people were killed by security forces nell'assalto night at the Omari Mosque in recent days the scene of protests against the regime of Assad. Other than the version provided by the Syrian state TV, which provides an "armed gang" attacked an ambulance, killing a doctor, a paramedic, the driver and a policeman.
In force in Syria since 1963 an emergency law that bans public demonstrations. After this episode the fighting continued in the area patrolled by more than 3,000 police and military. According to the pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV "hundreds" were injured and after the eviction of the Omari Mosque "Dara many houses have been transformed into small field hospitals." 
Witnesses said police opened fire on hundreds of young people trying to reach the city from the North: "They shot and the bodies fell on the road." After days of violence, the French government to intervene with a warning to Assad. Syria must renounce to the 'excessive use of force "against demonstrators," said French Foreign Ministry Alain Juppe.
Paris also condemned "the violence that resulted in deaths and injuries" last night in Dera. In this scenario came the official confirmation of a decision that is talked about for some time: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has declared the resignation of the governor of Dara, Faysal Kulthum.
According to denounce human rights groups, at least six people were killed by security forces nell'assalto night at the Omari Mosque in recent days the scene of protests against the regime of Assad. Other than the version provided by the Syrian state TV, which provides an "armed gang" attacked an ambulance, killing a doctor, a paramedic, the driver and a policeman.
In force in Syria since 1963 an emergency law that bans public demonstrations. After this episode the fighting continued in the area patrolled by more than 3,000 police and military. According to the pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV "hundreds" were injured and after the eviction of the Omari Mosque "Dara many houses have been transformed into small field hospitals."
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