Syrian opposition Reuters says killed 200 protests-

A tank is seen in the Syrian port city of Caesarea Philippi 10 April 2011.

Credit: Reuters/HandoutBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN | Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:33 pm EDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's most important human rights movement said the death toll of less than a month of protests reached 200 and calls of the Arab League, impose sanctions against the ruling hierarchy.

"Screams Syria uprising with 200 martyrs, hundreds of injured and a similar number of arrests," the Group Damascus Declaration said in a letter on Monday, the Secretary General of the Arab League.

"The regime unleashed to besiege his Forcers cities and to terrorize civilians, while demonstrators on Syria thunder with the same chant ' peaceful quiet", "added to it."

"We ask you to impose political, diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Syrian regime, the continue faithful guardian of Hafiz al-Assad's legacy...,", said the letter, referring to the iron fisted rule of President Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashar.

Bashar, overlooking never since unprecedented protests against his rule 11-year-old reacted with a mixture of power-his security forces have on the unarmed demonstrators, according to witnesses-raised and vague promises to relax on freedoms, such as replace emergency law with anti terror law prohibits.

The protests, which erupted last month before the distribution in the southern town of Deraa, called for freedom of expression and Assembly, and an end to corruption.

The authorities said armed gangs and "Intruders" were responsible for the violence and the soldiers and police have also been killed.

"President Assad has been give only promise for the last 11 years." Instead he speaks solutions such as the regime generally on an external conspiracy, "said the letter."

The Damascus Declaration called for a document signed in 2005 by prominent civic, Islamist and Liberal leader for the end of 41 Assad family rule and its replacement by a democratic system.

The document called for the lifting of the prohibitions on freedom of expression and Assembly and the abolition of emergency laws, under which Syria determines since 1963, when the ruling Baath Party took power in a coup d ' état and any opposition banned.

Most of its members have long periods of time as political prisoners, opposition RAID al-Turk, more than 17 years in solitary confinement under Hafez al-Assad spent leading figure including spent.

Fayiz Sara, a journalist, was jailed for two - and-a half years with 11 Damascus Declaration members and published in the year 2010, arrested again on Sunday, said rights activists.

"The secret police have until any outstanding figure were rounding that can get them on their hands." They call it either in the for "Interrogation"and keep it, pick it up from the street or break into their homes,"the rights defender said one."

Assad has said the protests are part of a foreign plot to sow sectarian fighting. His father used similar language when he left and killing thousands crushed Islamic challenges to his rule in the 1980s.

Syrian security forces on Monday after pro-democracy protests and killings by irregulars loyal to Assad off the coast city Banias sealed, residents said.

(Editing by Michael Roddy)

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