The first actions of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, who has lifted the state of emergency Thursday eased the security apparatus in the country, did not convince the opponents, who launched Facebook calls to new events, Friday, April 22. They are tens of thousands have marched across the country, finding inadequate the measures announced: the lifting of emergency rule, which limited freedoms drastically since 1963, was one of the main claims of opponents beginning of the dispute.
But they now also demand democratic reforms, release of political prisoners and end the stranglehold of the security services on society. Amnesty International has estimated that this day would be "a test of the sincerity of the government regarding the implementation of reforms." And the test was inconclusive: the police have not hesitated to fire live bullets at the demonstrators to disperse them.
According to revised figures released Saturday by activists of human rights, more than eighty people were killed across the country. If confirmed, this would balance the heaviest in a single day since the beginning, a month ago, demonstrations against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.
Dozens of people were also injured. Before the intervention of law enforcement, the day had been one of the largest mobilizations since the beginning, March 15, the unprecedented protest movement against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad came to power in 2000 to the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
Some ten thousand protesters gathered in central Deraa, epicenter of the dispute, leaving the mosques, calling for the dissolution of intelligence. Some placards calling for the "annulment of Article 8" of the Constitution, which enshrines the hegemony of the Baath Party, as an activist.
Demonstrations were held in and around the country: in Hama, 210 km north of Damascus, Latakia, 350 km northwest of Damascus, Homs (Center), in the port city of Banias (Northwest ) - where some ten thousand people have called for the downfall of the regime to Sight "traces of torture" on prisoners released from the body - in Qamishli (North East), Duma, 15 km north of Damascus, or in Zabadani, 50 km northwest of Damascus, and nearly two hundred people marched briefly in the capital.
A Duma According to the official Syrian forces of order intervened with tear gas and water cannons only to prevent clashes "between some demonstrators and citizens", and "to protect private property." "There were injuries," said SANA. But images of bloody corpses, including children, are served by on-site photographers and protesters who want to prove the violence of the repression.
Syrian activists have published lists of names identifying more than 70 dead across the country. "The Syrian security forces committed massacres in several cities and regions today by Syria so far 72 dead and hundreds injured," said the Syrian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, based in London, in a statement received by the Friday night.
The BBC aired footage that many shots are heard during the protests in Homs, that the British chain attributed to security forces, adding however that it could not authenticate the pictures. Other images of Homs seem to confirm that the protesters have been targeted by gunfire. Images of clashes between Homs five thousand and six thousand people marched in Qamishli, in north-eastern Syria.
Witnesses said security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse a gathering of about two thousand people in the historic district of Midan, in central Damascus. The demonstrators, Arab, Kurdish and Assyrian Christians, began to file past the mosque Qasmo, waving Syrian flags. Some carried a banner displaying "Arabs, Syrians and Kurds against corruption".
A Qamishli In their first joint statement from the beginning of events in mid-March, "local coordinating committees, which represent the various provinces of Syria, argued that" the slogans of freedom and dignity can not be translated into the facts as peaceful democratic change. " "All prisoners of conscience should be released.
The security apparatus in place must be dismantled and replaced by another, accompanied by a particular jurisdiction, and acts in accordance with the law," they said in the statement . "We deplore the use of violence, we are very concerned about the information received from Syria," the journalists said Friday the spokesman of President Barack Obama, Jay Carney.
"We urge the Syrian government to stop resorting to violence, we call on all parties to stop resorting to violence," he said, adding that the U.S. follows the "very near" the evolution of the situation. Paris responded late Friday night. The Foreign Ministry called on Syrian authorities to "renounce the use of violence against their citizens" and to implement reforms.
Before the day of Friday, at least two hundred twenty-eight persons had been killed since March 15 in Syria, according to Amnesty International. 
But they now also demand democratic reforms, release of political prisoners and end the stranglehold of the security services on society. Amnesty International has estimated that this day would be "a test of the sincerity of the government regarding the implementation of reforms." And the test was inconclusive: the police have not hesitated to fire live bullets at the demonstrators to disperse them.
According to revised figures released Saturday by activists of human rights, more than eighty people were killed across the country. If confirmed, this would balance the heaviest in a single day since the beginning, a month ago, demonstrations against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.
Dozens of people were also injured. Before the intervention of law enforcement, the day had been one of the largest mobilizations since the beginning, March 15, the unprecedented protest movement against the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad came to power in 2000 to the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
Some ten thousand protesters gathered in central Deraa, epicenter of the dispute, leaving the mosques, calling for the dissolution of intelligence. Some placards calling for the "annulment of Article 8" of the Constitution, which enshrines the hegemony of the Baath Party, as an activist.
Demonstrations were held in and around the country: in Hama, 210 km north of Damascus, Latakia, 350 km northwest of Damascus, Homs (Center), in the port city of Banias (Northwest ) - where some ten thousand people have called for the downfall of the regime to Sight "traces of torture" on prisoners released from the body - in Qamishli (North East), Duma, 15 km north of Damascus, or in Zabadani, 50 km northwest of Damascus, and nearly two hundred people marched briefly in the capital.
A Duma According to the official Syrian forces of order intervened with tear gas and water cannons only to prevent clashes "between some demonstrators and citizens", and "to protect private property." "There were injuries," said SANA. But images of bloody corpses, including children, are served by on-site photographers and protesters who want to prove the violence of the repression.
Syrian activists have published lists of names identifying more than 70 dead across the country. "The Syrian security forces committed massacres in several cities and regions today by Syria so far 72 dead and hundreds injured," said the Syrian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, based in London, in a statement received by the Friday night.
The BBC aired footage that many shots are heard during the protests in Homs, that the British chain attributed to security forces, adding however that it could not authenticate the pictures. Other images of Homs seem to confirm that the protesters have been targeted by gunfire. Images of clashes between Homs five thousand and six thousand people marched in Qamishli, in north-eastern Syria.
Witnesses said security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse a gathering of about two thousand people in the historic district of Midan, in central Damascus. The demonstrators, Arab, Kurdish and Assyrian Christians, began to file past the mosque Qasmo, waving Syrian flags. Some carried a banner displaying "Arabs, Syrians and Kurds against corruption".
A Qamishli In their first joint statement from the beginning of events in mid-March, "local coordinating committees, which represent the various provinces of Syria, argued that" the slogans of freedom and dignity can not be translated into the facts as peaceful democratic change. " "All prisoners of conscience should be released.
The security apparatus in place must be dismantled and replaced by another, accompanied by a particular jurisdiction, and acts in accordance with the law," they said in the statement . "We deplore the use of violence, we are very concerned about the information received from Syria," the journalists said Friday the spokesman of President Barack Obama, Jay Carney.
"We urge the Syrian government to stop resorting to violence, we call on all parties to stop resorting to violence," he said, adding that the U.S. follows the "very near" the evolution of the situation. Paris responded late Friday night. The Foreign Ministry called on Syrian authorities to "renounce the use of violence against their citizens" and to implement reforms.
Before the day of Friday, at least two hundred twenty-eight persons had been killed since March 15 in Syria, according to Amnesty International.
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