The entry in Dara' seemed a signal a new chapter in a RAID to the more than 350 people, with the single highest toll killed on Friday. As far as hewing, a mixture of the promised concessions and blunt force, indicated Monday that it searches for the latter to crush a wave of dissent in virtually every Syrian province, the once undisputed rule of law has shaken President Bashar al-Assad had chosen Government.
Residents said at least eight tanks entered Dara' (a) in the dawn from four directions, and there were reports used by artillery and mortars. Telephone lines have been to the area, so that first-hand difficult, and in the vicinity crossings with Jordan were border sealed from the Syrian side Jordanian officials said. But a cloud of black smoke rises shown smuggled video out of the city on the horizon with salvos of heavy gunfire echo in the distance.
Protesters said the toll was almost certain to rise. Facilities were in the streets, but snipers on the roofs prevented residents and medical staff to retrieve.
"The armed forces have occupied the city of Dara'a," said a resident breathless as he footage shot Monday morning. "they are heading toward the center of the city."
Other smuggled footage showed heavily armed soldiers parked positions behind walls, a few meters away from a tank in what seem to be a green, main street. Witnesses said some tanks move in the direction of the Omari mosque, it was cited by organizers a landmark, which has served as the headquarters of the art for demonstrators.
"God is great, Bashar," a protestor called on video on the Internet, addressing President Bashar al-Assad with his first name. "Why are you attack?"
The city slung building and about 75,000 inhabitants has become almost synonymous with the revolt, reign of the Assad family has provided the greatest challenge to four decades. Protests it broke in March after security forces arrested a group of high school students Doodle accused anti-Government graffiti on the wall, galvanizing demonstrations that have spread to virtually every province in Syria.
Other activists said Syrian security forces entered two towns on the outskirts of the capital - Duma and Maadamiah - carrying out dozens of arrests. Conflicts have primarily in the poor, troubled cities, which encircle Damascus very and activists said there were reports of shooting during the raids which began Monday morning.
Residents reported that security forces the cities was surrounded on Sunday. Everyone leave or enter, they said, was looking for, in an apparent attempt to stop demonstrators from the March on the capital, a stronghold of the Assad family rule.
Based, a city inhabited by Syria's Sunni Muslim majority and members of the minority Alawite - a heterodox Muslim sect, which the Government support is much - security forces killed at least 12 people in a RAID, which began Sunday and permanent in the night. A resident said demonstrators burned a car army and took a soldier hostage.
"The army is all about the area provided", another resident said who gave his name as Abu Ahmed. "I can not describe how bad the situation was all night." "It is a street war."
He said had strengthened the shooting tension between Sunni and Alawite in the city, a potentially dangerous manifestation in a country with a mosaic of religious and ethnic minorities, of which fear they threaten many collapse of the Government can.
He said "The plate have been dashed," with an Arab expression. "There is dispute between us now, it is planted was and the problem will forever be based are available."
The widening crackdown comes amid reports that many of them of Hims and the surrounding cities of Damascus, have scores of residents in Syria since disappeared Friday, out of the troubled city activists say. In Saqba, one who said the city suburbs, an organizer, 100 people Friday, with no record of their arrest had disappeared.
"It is about much more bloodshed, are," Wissam said fare, head of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, "all signals from my point of view, showing."
Mr price said that his organization all in all had compiled the names of 217 people, which had disappeared since early Friday. At least 70 of them came from the towns near the capital outskirts and 68 others from the third-largest city of Hims, Syria and the particularly protests of last week. Taken together, said he had documented group names of the missing from 17 towns and villages.
He said "It just don't stop". "Names keep pouring."
The crackdown is yet another indication that the decision of the Government draconian emergency lift since 1963, turn out to be more rhetoric than reform. Although the Government Thursday as a radical step has traded his removal, some have the last few days is the bloodiest and most repressive since the uprising began. On Friday alone killed more than 100 people in 14 cities.
"We this regime not more trust,", another protester said in based.
Human rights Watch calls for the United Nations to set up an international inquiry into her death and calls for the United States and Europe, impose sanctions on officials responsible for the shooting and arrests of hundreds of demonstrators.
"After the Friday carnage, it does not have enough condemn the violence", said Joe Stork, the Middle East, Deputy Director of the Organization, based in New York.
Employees of the New York Times contributed to this report from Beirut and Damascus, Syria. Ranya Kadri contributed reporting from Aqaba, Jordan.
By Stanley Reed