The protest movement regime in Syria has grown with new events, Monday, April 18, after the death of eleven demonstrators killed by security forces in the region of Homs, according to activists of human rights . The authorities, meanwhile, blamed the violence of recent days to "criminal elements" guilty of "sabotage".
Thousands of people attended the funerals of at least seven people killed Sunday in Homs in central Syria, while demonstrations were held in Dera in the south, the epicenter of unprecedented challenge launched March 15, and nearly Idleb (northwest). The opposition has found insufficient the promise of President Bashar al-Assad to repeal in the coming days the emergency law in force for five decades, calling for a multiparty system and also the release of political prisoners.
In the city of Homs, located 160 km north of Damascus, security forces fired live bullets to disperse protesters in the district of Bab Sba'a, according to activists, who requested anonymity. Two of them reported "seven lives" while a third spoke of "nine lives". About twenty people were injured, they said.
Militants have explained that there was great tension since the announcement Saturday of the death of a sheikh arrested a week ago when he was healthy. It is also due to news from the nearby town of Talbiseh, where at least four people were killed Sunday and more than fifty were injured by security forces who opened fire on the crowd at the funeral of a Syria killed the day before, witnesses said.
The Syrian authorities have attributed the shooting to "armed criminal elements" unidentified, saying that a policeman was killed and eleven members of the police and five soldiers were injured by this criminal group. " Even if the number of demonstrators is limited, the challenge is growing across the country, led by five decades of Baath party said an opponent.
A Deraa, about five hundred people, including one hundred and fifty lawyers rallied in calling for the downfall of the regime. They demanded the release of prisoners and denounced the Baath monopoly on political life, said an activist of human rights there. In the village of Jisr al-Choughour, located near Idleb (north-west), about 1500 people demonstrated after the funeral of a protester killed in Banias, a town farther south.
They cut the road to Aleppo (north) and demanded the release of prisoners as well as information on missing persons, according to another activist. The Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has, meanwhile, on Monday denounced acts of "sabotage" committed during the protests. "The reforms will continue and peaceful demonstrations are allowed, but the use of violence and sabotage are unacceptable," said the minister during a meeting with ambassadors accredited to Damascus.
The minister described as "very dangerous" what happened Sunday Talbiseh, where "the international highway was cut off for long hours, gunmen attacked police who had received strict instructions not to retaliate This required the intervention of the army, "he said. According to Muallem, "great public pressure exerted on the government to act to restore order" in the country. 
Thousands of people attended the funerals of at least seven people killed Sunday in Homs in central Syria, while demonstrations were held in Dera in the south, the epicenter of unprecedented challenge launched March 15, and nearly Idleb (northwest). The opposition has found insufficient the promise of President Bashar al-Assad to repeal in the coming days the emergency law in force for five decades, calling for a multiparty system and also the release of political prisoners.
In the city of Homs, located 160 km north of Damascus, security forces fired live bullets to disperse protesters in the district of Bab Sba'a, according to activists, who requested anonymity. Two of them reported "seven lives" while a third spoke of "nine lives". About twenty people were injured, they said.
Militants have explained that there was great tension since the announcement Saturday of the death of a sheikh arrested a week ago when he was healthy. It is also due to news from the nearby town of Talbiseh, where at least four people were killed Sunday and more than fifty were injured by security forces who opened fire on the crowd at the funeral of a Syria killed the day before, witnesses said.
The Syrian authorities have attributed the shooting to "armed criminal elements" unidentified, saying that a policeman was killed and eleven members of the police and five soldiers were injured by this criminal group. " Even if the number of demonstrators is limited, the challenge is growing across the country, led by five decades of Baath party said an opponent.
A Deraa, about five hundred people, including one hundred and fifty lawyers rallied in calling for the downfall of the regime. They demanded the release of prisoners and denounced the Baath monopoly on political life, said an activist of human rights there. In the village of Jisr al-Choughour, located near Idleb (north-west), about 1500 people demonstrated after the funeral of a protester killed in Banias, a town farther south.
They cut the road to Aleppo (north) and demanded the release of prisoners as well as information on missing persons, according to another activist. The Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has, meanwhile, on Monday denounced acts of "sabotage" committed during the protests. "The reforms will continue and peaceful demonstrations are allowed, but the use of violence and sabotage are unacceptable," said the minister during a meeting with ambassadors accredited to Damascus.
The minister described as "very dangerous" what happened Sunday Talbiseh, where "the international highway was cut off for long hours, gunmen attacked police who had received strict instructions not to retaliate This required the intervention of the army, "he said. According to Muallem, "great public pressure exerted on the government to act to restore order" in the country.
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