Witnesses say Security 5 killed in Syria RAID - voice of America

VOA News April 25, 2011 a man throws a rock at a passing tank in a place given as Deraa in this still image of an amateur video, April 25, 2011

Witnesses in southern Syria say security forces have killed five people, as authorities to expand their crackdown on a five-week anti-Government uprising.

Monday said they saw the bodies in a car the witness, had attacked the security forces is ' A, after rolled tanks and soldiers in the city.

Permission groups reported also shot by security forces in the Duma, a suburb of the capital Damascus.

On Sunday, permission groups said security forces killed at least four civilians and city Jableh, protest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad of last night arrested many activists of the opposition in the coastline after pro-democracy.? Witnesses say that the murders occurred even if no protests underway.

In the meantime, police raids in Syria Sunday, especially around Damascus and the central city of Homs conducted secret.? Arrests more than grieving funerals for protesters killed last during the two days.

Sweeps against the Government, the demonstrators despite last week lifting the country's nearly 50-year-old emergency law have escalated. The New York Times, quoting the Managing Director who said Syrian rights group Insan Wissam fare, 217 people have disappeared since Friday.

Funerals were held for the victims of the violence Friday and Saturday.? Human rights groups say that at least 120 people were killed in the two-day crackdown.

The US Human Rights Watch called Sunday for a UN investigation into the death and international sanctions to the officials for the murder charge.

President Assad signed a decree ending decades of State of emergency last week.? The ruling was part of his efforts against the Government stop unrest, by an important demand protesters.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.

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Security forces in the Yemen open fire on protesters

SANA, Yemen - clashes broke out late Saturday night between security forces and protesters here, killed a demonstrator and wounding 15, said doctors, in a field hospital at the site.

Security forces opened fire, said 52 protesters more than three weeks of witnesses in the first direct attack on demonstrators in the capital since sniper ago killed. The shooting follows Taiz, where security forces and men in civilian clothes turned deadly about 20 demonstrators, a week of violence in a central city.

Saturday's violence began after a group of about 400 demonstrators tried to March the Presidential Palace in the late evening. They were stopped at a major intersection of security forces over half a mile away from their main sit-in area.

After an hour of a tense standoff, shots began. Plainclothesmen, wielding weapons, were the police standing around and had surrounded the area where the protesters from the site had canceled most important protest. Two water cannon was also the area.

The demonstrators had an area of migrated where protesters guarded soldiers under General Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, top military leader who broke with the Government last month.

After the shots scattered the protesters temporarily, although some returned, chanted "Peacefulness, quiet" and "There is no God but Allah."

"they first shot and then shot in the air they us", said Mustafa Amrany, a 14-year-old boy who was on the floor of a nearby mechanic shop after exposed to tear gas. He said: "I am not young." I'm here with the protest, "while Ismael Mohamed, mechanics, water poured his burning eyes." Before the violence broke out Saturday, the atmosphere was tense, and at regular intervals the protesters taunts yelled out to the security forces.

"We are escalating our protests," said Ziad Rahim, 23, before the gunfire broke. Most area leaving main protest seemed in their 20s. Many wore t-Shirts with the words "Project martyr" in Arabic.

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