AMMAN | Fri Apr 8, 2011 9: 13 of the EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces as protests against the rule of Bashar al-Assad flared in several cities after Friday prayers at least three pro-democracy demonstrators in the southern city of Deraa killed, said witness.
Thousands demonstrated in the East of ethnic Kurds for reform despite the President this week offer simple rules that bar many Kurds citizenship, activists said.
Security men opened fire on thousands of demonstrators in Deraa, where protests broke out first last month before spreading across the country in the last three weeks. Residents of Reuters contacted said at least three people were killed.
"I saw pools of blood and three bodies in the street is picked up by relatives in the area of Mahatta," said one of the witnesses, who spoke by phone to Reuters.
"Were the snipers on rooftops." Gunfire was difficult. The injured are taken in houses. No one familiar set his relatives in a hospital under these circumstances, "he added." Many demonstrators fear that she would be arrested, if taken hospitals.
Protests broke even in the Western City of Hims, and gunfire was heard in the District of Damascus Harasta. The suburb of Duma, where the protests have held in recent days, was largely reduced from contact due to telephone lines, local activists said. Media are strongly limited in Syria.
Popular demonstrations have rocked the country for the last three weeks calling for greater freedom. Assad responded with a mixture of violence against demonstrators and gestures towards a reform to the most recent ethnic Kurds.
In the northeastern city of Qamishli, Kurdish youths chanted: "no one Syrian Kurds, not Arabs, one." "We salute the martyrs of Deraa." Demonstrations were concerns that fuel pump unrest could ethnic and religious tensions in the country according to.
Friday demonstrations, which online activists this week that "Friday of the steadfastness" mentioned, tends to see the largest protests against Assad's 11 years in power. In recent weeks security forces have fire, kill dozens opened.
In Deraa people demonstrated just last month against the detention of children, the pro-democracy graffiti inspired by the Egyptian and Tunisian riots on school walls all had.
Sunni Muslims tribes there are the wealth and makes of the minority Alawite treasures belonging to offshoot sect of Shi Shi'ite Islam, which Assad. Mobile telephone lines were cut off been or limited in the last two days, said the residents.
Protesters chanted: "The people want the overthrow of the Government," an echo of the slogans from elsewhere in the Arab world.
REFORMS "DONT GO TO THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM"
The Baath party since 1963 has a coup and execution of Assad's father until his death in the year 2000 in power tolerated no dissent and emergency law to justify used arbitrary arrests.
A central demand of the protesters is to pick up the law.
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