Syrian soldiers roamed from house to house on Monday and make arrests in cities and towns as part of a campaign of intimidation aimed at crushing the revolt against the authoritarian regime of President Bashar Assad, said opponents. Rami Abdul-Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said hundreds of people were arrested in just the past two days.
"The arrests are continuing, from the besieged city of Dara, in the south to the north and the suburbs of Damascus, "he added. Assad is determined to crush the popular revolt, which lasted six weeks after the onset give Dara and spreading through the country of 23 million. According to rights groups, at least 545 Syrians have been killed because of the protests that began in March.
Now, antigovernment demonstrations, once unimaginable, represent the most serious challenge to the regime of the Assad family, which has ruled for four decades in one of the most repressive countries in the Middle East. "Apparently, the authorities took the decision not declared resort to military security and to destroy the rebellion, "said Abdul-Rahman, whose body has its headquarters in London.
The city of Dara, which plagues of drought has been under siege for a week since the regime sent troops backed by tanks and snipers to quell the protesters. The electricity and fuel supply was interrupted and the army cordoned off much of the area. "I never was so frightened," Dara said a resident who fled on Sunday night to an area 16 kilometers (10 miles) .
"Security personnel are divided into four units in Dara. There was indiscriminate firing shells on Sunday, people are terrified," said this person on Monday to The Associated Press. "It's as if there were military barracks." The ruling states that the survey is part of a foreign conspiracy orchestrated by extremists and armed thugs and not by those seeking reform. 
"The arrests are continuing, from the besieged city of Dara, in the south to the north and the suburbs of Damascus, "he added. Assad is determined to crush the popular revolt, which lasted six weeks after the onset give Dara and spreading through the country of 23 million. According to rights groups, at least 545 Syrians have been killed because of the protests that began in March.
Now, antigovernment demonstrations, once unimaginable, represent the most serious challenge to the regime of the Assad family, which has ruled for four decades in one of the most repressive countries in the Middle East. "Apparently, the authorities took the decision not declared resort to military security and to destroy the rebellion, "said Abdul-Rahman, whose body has its headquarters in London.
The city of Dara, which plagues of drought has been under siege for a week since the regime sent troops backed by tanks and snipers to quell the protesters. The electricity and fuel supply was interrupted and the army cordoned off much of the area. "I never was so frightened," Dara said a resident who fled on Sunday night to an area 16 kilometers (10 miles) .
"Security personnel are divided into four units in Dara. There was indiscriminate firing shells on Sunday, people are terrified," said this person on Monday to The Associated Press. "It's as if there were military barracks." The ruling states that the survey is part of a foreign conspiracy orchestrated by extremists and armed thugs and not by those seeking reform.
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