Tens of thousands of people have participated in the crowded funeral of nearly one hundred dead yesterday led to the fierce repression of the regime of Bashar Assad to quench the thirst for democracy and freedom of protesters in mass protests demanding the overthrow of the dictatorship and an end to corruption.
As in the day Friday, the bloodiest since the revolt erupted a month ago, opponents have called for an end to the dictatorship that runs the designs of Syria for more than four decades. Security forces opened fire on several committees that ran next to the coffins in the streets of major cities and have killed at least 12 civilians, according to information from dissidents and human rights activists.
In one of the burials in the district of Barzeh in Damascus, three people have been killed by police gunfire. Witnesses quoted by ensuring that the crowd attending another funeral in the district of Douma has received a barrage of shots that killed at least three injured. In the town of Izra'a, south of the capital, police also discharged their weapons against people trying to join the twelve funerals that run the place, killing at least three dead, witnesses said.
The protesters shouted "Bashar Assad, traitor," among other harangues. Four other activists have been killed in the town of Douma, according to witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera, to fall victim to the crossfire of security forces and snipers from rooftops. As in other places throughout Syria, thousands of people have supported the funerals for the reprisals.
The Syrian MP Nasser al-Hariri announced his resignation as an MP in protest at the killing of demonstrators. "I could protect my children from treacherous shot, so it makes sense to continue in Parliament," said Al Hariri channel Al Jazeera. The same path has followed the mufti, a clergyman of the province of Dera, Abdulrahman Rezq Abaza, "I present my resignation as a result of the fall of victims and martyrs shot by the police," he said.
Slaughter on Friday is the worst scenario, but more predictable, following the bloody repression that stifled the protests yesterday against the regime. The police and thugs hired by the Asad fired on unarmed crowds and killed at least 30 bodies, but opposition sources claimed that the real number of victims rose to 80.
Advocacy groups, human rights believe that the death toll exceeds at least 70. The local coordinating committees which bring together activists from every region, Syria has developed a list of the names of 88 activists who lost their lives yesterday in separate demonstrations were held in Latakia, Homs, Hama, Damascus and in the town of Izra 'a, south of Saudi Arabia.
The day yesterday was by far the bloodiest in the last month, marked by protests demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption. "The funeral will become vehement protests, like the previous funerals," said a Syrian activist agency, the time has predicted a new bloodbath. "When security forces perform the role of bully is hard to imagine that they will not shoot back into the crowd", lamented that opposition from Damascus.
Iran ties with U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday strongly condemned the violence in Syria and blamed it to the Asad regime, accusing it of seeking support from Iran to quell the revolution. "This disproportionate use of violence to silence the protests should end immediately," Bush warned in a statement.
"Instead of listening to the people, President Assad blames foreigners while seeking Iran's help to suppress the Syrian citizen." The Damascus government has described as "irresponsible" criticism of Obama yesterday launched. In his view, Obama's message "is not based on objective and comprehensive analysis of what is really happening." The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, also joined the U.S.
condemnation and expressed "deep concern" over developments in Syria. "The Syrian authorities should stop using violence against its citizens. Again we demand the urgent opening of political dialogue that will culminate in the adoption of reforms that rightfully demand the Syrian people." Amnesty International has also complained that the Syrian authorities "have returned to respond with bullets and batons on peaceful calls for change." Friday's protests took place despite the decision taken yesterday by the regime to lift the state of emergency in force in the country since the party Baz took power 48 years ago.
A statement from the committee that the opposition groups warned yesterday that the government decree annulling the state of emergency was useless if at the same time is not freed thousands of political prisoners, most held without trial, and was being dismantled security apparatus. The death toll exceeds 300, according to estimates by human rights groups, since riots erupted in the southern city of Dera on 18 March. 
As in the day Friday, the bloodiest since the revolt erupted a month ago, opponents have called for an end to the dictatorship that runs the designs of Syria for more than four decades. Security forces opened fire on several committees that ran next to the coffins in the streets of major cities and have killed at least 12 civilians, according to information from dissidents and human rights activists.
In one of the burials in the district of Barzeh in Damascus, three people have been killed by police gunfire. Witnesses quoted by ensuring that the crowd attending another funeral in the district of Douma has received a barrage of shots that killed at least three injured. In the town of Izra'a, south of the capital, police also discharged their weapons against people trying to join the twelve funerals that run the place, killing at least three dead, witnesses said.
The protesters shouted "Bashar Assad, traitor," among other harangues. Four other activists have been killed in the town of Douma, according to witnesses quoted by Al Jazeera, to fall victim to the crossfire of security forces and snipers from rooftops. As in other places throughout Syria, thousands of people have supported the funerals for the reprisals.
The Syrian MP Nasser al-Hariri announced his resignation as an MP in protest at the killing of demonstrators. "I could protect my children from treacherous shot, so it makes sense to continue in Parliament," said Al Hariri channel Al Jazeera. The same path has followed the mufti, a clergyman of the province of Dera, Abdulrahman Rezq Abaza, "I present my resignation as a result of the fall of victims and martyrs shot by the police," he said.
Slaughter on Friday is the worst scenario, but more predictable, following the bloody repression that stifled the protests yesterday against the regime. The police and thugs hired by the Asad fired on unarmed crowds and killed at least 30 bodies, but opposition sources claimed that the real number of victims rose to 80.
Advocacy groups, human rights believe that the death toll exceeds at least 70. The local coordinating committees which bring together activists from every region, Syria has developed a list of the names of 88 activists who lost their lives yesterday in separate demonstrations were held in Latakia, Homs, Hama, Damascus and in the town of Izra 'a, south of Saudi Arabia.
The day yesterday was by far the bloodiest in the last month, marked by protests demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption. "The funeral will become vehement protests, like the previous funerals," said a Syrian activist agency, the time has predicted a new bloodbath. "When security forces perform the role of bully is hard to imagine that they will not shoot back into the crowd", lamented that opposition from Damascus.
Iran ties with U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday strongly condemned the violence in Syria and blamed it to the Asad regime, accusing it of seeking support from Iran to quell the revolution. "This disproportionate use of violence to silence the protests should end immediately," Bush warned in a statement.
"Instead of listening to the people, President Assad blames foreigners while seeking Iran's help to suppress the Syrian citizen." The Damascus government has described as "irresponsible" criticism of Obama yesterday launched. In his view, Obama's message "is not based on objective and comprehensive analysis of what is really happening." The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, also joined the U.S.
condemnation and expressed "deep concern" over developments in Syria. "The Syrian authorities should stop using violence against its citizens. Again we demand the urgent opening of political dialogue that will culminate in the adoption of reforms that rightfully demand the Syrian people." Amnesty International has also complained that the Syrian authorities "have returned to respond with bullets and batons on peaceful calls for change." Friday's protests took place despite the decision taken yesterday by the regime to lift the state of emergency in force in the country since the party Baz took power 48 years ago.
A statement from the committee that the opposition groups warned yesterday that the government decree annulling the state of emergency was useless if at the same time is not freed thousands of political prisoners, most held without trial, and was being dismantled security apparatus. The death toll exceeds 300, according to estimates by human rights groups, since riots erupted in the southern city of Dera on 18 March.
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