Shots were heard in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at Deraa, a city in southern Syria where the Syrian army entered into force on Monday and opened fire on residents. "Tanks are stationed, and roadblocks entrances to the city ", preventing people from entering Deraa, said an activist for human rights, Abdullah Abazid.
He further indicated that "intensive weapons fire were heard" in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at Deraa. He said soldiers have defected and are facing the army encircles Deraa, birthplace of the protest movement on March 15. The regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have chosen the military to crush the protest movement unprecedented gripping the country for six weeks.
The army has chased "extremist armed groups" who have "attacked military positions and cut off roads" in Dera and its province, said the official SANA news agency, citing "three people dead and 15 wounded" in the ranks of security forces and army. According to activists of human rights, at least twenty-five people were killed in Monday's shelling of Deraa, where security forces had entered before dawn, backed by tanks and armored vehicles.
The board of Human Rights the UN held on Friday, a special session on the situation in Syria, at the request of the United States, said Wednesday a UN spokesman. The previous day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his "growing concern" about the crackdown against demonstrators, particularly the use of tanks and live ammunition by the forces of security.
"We watch what happens very closely and with growing concern," said Mr. Ban Ki-moon to press after the discussions of the Security Council devoted to Syria. "I absolutely condemns the violence against peaceful demonstrators, particularly the use of tanks and ammunition that have injured or killed hundreds of people," he said.
"It goes without saying that the Syrian authorities have an obligation to protect civilians and respect international rules on human rights," he added. Mr. Ban has supported the call for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in favor of an independent and transparent investigation of hundreds of deaths occurred in Syria.
The discussions of the Security Council Tuesday on Syria have failed to enter into a formal stage on a draft statement condemning the violence offered by four European countries: France, Germany, Great Britain and Portugal. The Council would meet again Wednesday, but diplomats said Russia was the main obstacle to the adoption of this statement, which also supports the call for an investigation.
China also supports a "political solution," said his agent, Li Baodong. The Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, has rejected any idea of international investigation. "Syria has a government, a State," he said, she is quite capable of conducting its own investigation, seamlessly, into the death of anti-government protesters and did not need outside help. 
He further indicated that "intensive weapons fire were heard" in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at Deraa. He said soldiers have defected and are facing the army encircles Deraa, birthplace of the protest movement on March 15. The regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have chosen the military to crush the protest movement unprecedented gripping the country for six weeks.
The army has chased "extremist armed groups" who have "attacked military positions and cut off roads" in Dera and its province, said the official SANA news agency, citing "three people dead and 15 wounded" in the ranks of security forces and army. According to activists of human rights, at least twenty-five people were killed in Monday's shelling of Deraa, where security forces had entered before dawn, backed by tanks and armored vehicles.
The board of Human Rights the UN held on Friday, a special session on the situation in Syria, at the request of the United States, said Wednesday a UN spokesman. The previous day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his "growing concern" about the crackdown against demonstrators, particularly the use of tanks and live ammunition by the forces of security.
"We watch what happens very closely and with growing concern," said Mr. Ban Ki-moon to press after the discussions of the Security Council devoted to Syria. "I absolutely condemns the violence against peaceful demonstrators, particularly the use of tanks and ammunition that have injured or killed hundreds of people," he said.
"It goes without saying that the Syrian authorities have an obligation to protect civilians and respect international rules on human rights," he added. Mr. Ban has supported the call for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in favor of an independent and transparent investigation of hundreds of deaths occurred in Syria.
The discussions of the Security Council Tuesday on Syria have failed to enter into a formal stage on a draft statement condemning the violence offered by four European countries: France, Germany, Great Britain and Portugal. The Council would meet again Wednesday, but diplomats said Russia was the main obstacle to the adoption of this statement, which also supports the call for an investigation.
China also supports a "political solution," said his agent, Li Baodong. The Permanent Representative of Syria to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, has rejected any idea of international investigation. "Syria has a government, a State," he said, she is quite capable of conducting its own investigation, seamlessly, into the death of anti-government protesters and did not need outside help.
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