Twenty protesters killed in Syria, witnesses sayhttp://www.dawn.com/2011/04/08/twenty-protesters-killed-in-syria-witnesses-say.htmlBEIRUT: Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding hundreds and forcing residents to turn mosques into makeshift hospitals, witnesses and a human rights group said.
Ammar Qurabi, who heads Syria’s National Organization for Human Rights, said most of the deaths happened in Daraa, a restive southern city that has become a flashpoint for anti-government protests. Sixteen people were killed in Daraa, three in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, and one in the central city of Homs, he said.
The government acknowledged violence in Daraa on Friday, but said only two people died and blamed armed thugs.
One witness who helped ferry the dead and wounded to the city’s hospital said he was among thousands of people at the protest and he witnessed security forces shooting live ammunition.
”My clothes are soaked with blood,” he said by telephone from Daraa. Like most activists and witnesses who spoke to The Associated Press, he requested anonymity for fear of reprisals.
A nurse at the hospital said they had run out of beds; many people were being treated on the floor or in nearby mosques.
Protest organizers have called on Syrians to take to the streets every Friday for the past three weeks, demanding change in one of the most authoritarian nations in the Middle East.
The protests have rattled the regime of President Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for nearly 40 years.
The witness accounts coming out of Syria could not be independently confirmed because the regime has restricted media access to the country. Human rights groups say around 115 people have been killed in the security crackdown.
Witnesses in several other cities across Syria also reported protests Friday. An eyewitness in the coastal city of Latakia said hundreds of people took part in a largely peaceful protest Friday calling for political freedoms.
”Peaceful, peaceful!” they shouted, marching past soldiers who were deployed in force in and around the religiously mixed city where clashes two weeks ago killed 12 people. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
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Syria had appeared immune to the unrest sweeping the Arab world until three weeks ago, when security forces arrested a group of high school students who scrawled anti-government graffiti on a wall. Protests then exploded in cities across the country.
Look at that protest... Unlike people from Land of pure, these protests are quite peaceful..
Why this fool Bashar al-Assad need to be in power? his father ruled for 40 years., why not go fro election see the popularity?? what is the poin of education?? By profession you are A DOCTOR YOU IDIOT....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URv9swNdO5whttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nr56UB6zEI
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