The Syrian army, which besieged Deraa, the epicenter of protest against the regime in Damascus since April 25, will begin to withdraw Thursday from the city, "said General Riad Haddad. Forty trucks and armored personnel carriers left in the morning morning Deraa, journalists have found the. Three hundred and fifty soldiers on board two dozen trucks followed by a score of troop transports, all displaying posters of President Bashar Al-Assad, left this city about 10 am local time (8:00 am Paris time ).
"We began our departure after having accomplished our mission," the general said Haddad, director of political department of the Syrian army. "The army will be completely removed from Deraa by the end of the day," he added without specifying the number of troops engaged in the operation.
"We did not confront the protesters, we continue backing terrorists hidden in several places. As an army, we never confronted the protesters, we never used weapons except heavy automatic weapons" he said. He showed buildings under construction at the entrance to the city where, according to him, hiding from snipers with which the army fought on the first day of operation April 25.
He reported the deaths of 25 soldiers while 177 others were injured during this operation. Despite the continuing mass arrests and siege of cities, the Syrian opposition has called for demonstrations on Friday. "Friday's challenge, 6 May 2011, Syria, freedom approach, the people want to topple the regime," as the site The Syrian Revolution created in 2011 by young activists.
"This Friday's challenge, we defy the injustice, we will defy the oppression, we will defy the fear, we are free," they write. Over 300 people were arrested Thursday morning in the town of WQAS near Damascus, said an activist. The Syrian regime has deployed Wednesday, May 4, dozens of tanks on the outskirts of two strongholds of the challenge and held the seat of other cities but failed to break the resolve of opponents to continue their "revolution." While an organization of Human Rights has reported about 8000 "detained or disappeared" in Syria since March 15, the start of the protest movement unprecedented, France called for sanctions against President Bashar Al-Assad and Washington denounced repression "barbaric".
A Deraa, the military said Wednesday that "about to complete his mission after having achieved most of its objectives", without elaborating. The authorities accuse of "armed criminal gangs" or "terrorist groups" of being behind the violence. ARMY TO MASS AROUND AL Rastam "For three days, the army sent reinforcements to the northern entrance of al-Rastan, stronghold of the dispute, also said an activist.
Reinforcements continue to be deployed and, according to estimates, there would be hundreds of tanks and troop transports on the highway between Homs and Hama. " This deployment is reached following the refusal of residents to fight a hundred men in exchange for maintaining the tanks outside the city.
The same people had, some weeks ago, debunked a statue of former president Hafez Al-Assad, father of current president who succeeded him in 2000. The siege of Baniyas has also been reinforced by the security forces, which have made numerous arrests at roadblocks at the entrance to the city and seized truckloads of humanitarian aid to residents, said an activist and a witness.
"We will continue our revolution and our peaceful demonstrations across Syria until we get our freedom," said in a statement coordinating committees demonstrations in several cities, including Baniyas, Duma (near Damascus), Homs and Deraa. They denounced the repression and the recent mass arrests of protesters, citing at least five hundred arrests per day across the country.
"The system loses the right because, despite the siege and the brutality suffered by several cities and the arrests of hundreds of people, the protests are growing every day," they said. The protesters, who initially demanded the lifting of emergency rule, the release of prisoners and end the rule of the Baath party, now calling the fall of the regime. 
"We began our departure after having accomplished our mission," the general said Haddad, director of political department of the Syrian army. "The army will be completely removed from Deraa by the end of the day," he added without specifying the number of troops engaged in the operation.
"We did not confront the protesters, we continue backing terrorists hidden in several places. As an army, we never confronted the protesters, we never used weapons except heavy automatic weapons" he said. He showed buildings under construction at the entrance to the city where, according to him, hiding from snipers with which the army fought on the first day of operation April 25.
He reported the deaths of 25 soldiers while 177 others were injured during this operation. Despite the continuing mass arrests and siege of cities, the Syrian opposition has called for demonstrations on Friday. "Friday's challenge, 6 May 2011, Syria, freedom approach, the people want to topple the regime," as the site The Syrian Revolution created in 2011 by young activists.
"This Friday's challenge, we defy the injustice, we will defy the oppression, we will defy the fear, we are free," they write. Over 300 people were arrested Thursday morning in the town of WQAS near Damascus, said an activist. The Syrian regime has deployed Wednesday, May 4, dozens of tanks on the outskirts of two strongholds of the challenge and held the seat of other cities but failed to break the resolve of opponents to continue their "revolution." While an organization of Human Rights has reported about 8000 "detained or disappeared" in Syria since March 15, the start of the protest movement unprecedented, France called for sanctions against President Bashar Al-Assad and Washington denounced repression "barbaric".
A Deraa, the military said Wednesday that "about to complete his mission after having achieved most of its objectives", without elaborating. The authorities accuse of "armed criminal gangs" or "terrorist groups" of being behind the violence. ARMY TO MASS AROUND AL Rastam "For three days, the army sent reinforcements to the northern entrance of al-Rastan, stronghold of the dispute, also said an activist.
Reinforcements continue to be deployed and, according to estimates, there would be hundreds of tanks and troop transports on the highway between Homs and Hama. " This deployment is reached following the refusal of residents to fight a hundred men in exchange for maintaining the tanks outside the city.
The same people had, some weeks ago, debunked a statue of former president Hafez Al-Assad, father of current president who succeeded him in 2000. The siege of Baniyas has also been reinforced by the security forces, which have made numerous arrests at roadblocks at the entrance to the city and seized truckloads of humanitarian aid to residents, said an activist and a witness.
"We will continue our revolution and our peaceful demonstrations across Syria until we get our freedom," said in a statement coordinating committees demonstrations in several cities, including Baniyas, Duma (near Damascus), Homs and Deraa. They denounced the repression and the recent mass arrests of protesters, citing at least five hundred arrests per day across the country.
"The system loses the right because, despite the siege and the brutality suffered by several cities and the arrests of hundreds of people, the protests are growing every day," they said. The protesters, who initially demanded the lifting of emergency rule, the release of prisoners and end the rule of the Baath party, now calling the fall of the regime.
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