2011年4月10日星期日

Syrian troops open fire on demonstrators in two cities

In Dara' raised a killed, the security forces to a funeral for some of the 37 people protests disperse throughout the country a day before a human rights group said.

Several people were injured, said Ammar Qurabi runs who Syria's national organisation for human rights. Residents and witnesses in the city the group information is gathered.

More information about the shooting were not immediately available. Phone calls to Dara'a, which has shaken by violence, were not traversed, and the Government severe limitations on reporting in the media of the country.

Earlier, fired security forces to break a sit-in in the port of Latakia, in the heart of the Syrian ruling elite live ammunition. Hearing reported residents hours of heavy gunfire overnight as security forces violently dispersed hundreds of protesters.

"The shooting went for almost two hours;" It was terrifying, "said one resident, speaking under the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals." There was no immediate word on losses.

Latakia is significant, because it is located in a province, which has strong historical ties of the minority of Nusairier sect of President Bashar al-Assad.

As the wave of protests gathered steam, Mr Assad has some concessions, as local officials raise and to consider the committees, replace the country's despised emergency are offered.

On Saturday, he asked a court to examine, the former Governor of the region of Dara'a, Faisal Kalthoum and a former security officer, Atef Najib, for her role in the handling of protests in the city, a security official said. Mr Assad fired Mr Kalthoum last month.

These gestures failed to appease a growing movement, is the increase in their demands for concrete reforms and free elections in a country that is been ruled Mr Assad's family for more than 40 years.

On Friday, witnesses said security forces fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators in Dara'a, 25 people killed and hundreds injured opened. The Government said that 19 police officers and members of the security forces were killed when armed opened fire.

Neither account could be independently verified. But the Government plans for a stronger crackdown could signal claim victims. State television showed, what you say vandals setting fire to the radio and television building in DARA has ' a and shoot armed were random in the central city of Hims.

Also on Saturday, satellite, Al-Jazeera in which she held the security on Friday responsible for the violence in Dara dismissed the editor of the State newspaper Tishrin to give an interview to the station ' a forces.

An official at the newspaper confirmed Saturday that the editor, Samira Masalmeh, was dismissed because of the interview.

Since the protests seriously last month began more than 170 people have been killed, human rights groups say.


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