The death toll from the protests on Friday, had increased by one of the bloodiest days in the so-called Arab spring, from Saturday to 109 people, a figure which said activists were likely to rise as more bodies were returned to their families. Another group said 114 people were killed.
The bloodshed on Saturday followed a pattern in the turmoil that has swept the Arab world often seen. Funerals have often in demonstrations, situated where have more security forces bent on crushing dissent against authoritarian leaders have been killed. While on Friday of Saturday's death toll pales in comparison to the number killed, it proposed that the country has a longer turbulence may as demonstrators still the greatest challenge to the Assad family press four decades of rule.
President Bashar al-Assad has remain to fight to cope with the unrest, offers concessions which would have been surprising at a time, while violence against those who exist in demonstrations Government. Although the revolt has drawn large numbers in the streets since the launch on 15 March, it has yet to reach the critical mass of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. However, organizers say they believe that the bloodshed can pull more people in the uprising of fold.
A possible sign of cracks in the Government put two members of the Syrian Parliament largely powerless facade on Saturday. The two, Khalil al-Rifai and Nasser al-Hariri, both independent legislator from DARA'a, where the uprising began, said Al Jazeera that they protest the killing of demonstrators were withdrawn.
Wissam fare, the Managing Director of Insan, a human rights group, said that security forces fired live ammunition on grieving, after they buried their dead. Mr Assad, who inherited power from his father, Hafez, in the year 2000 was the funeral protests with demands for the case soon. Such claims had been voiced publicly, once unknown, and serve as a marker as outrage is to overcome fear in the repressive State.
11 Killed in cities close to Damascus, where some of the worst bloodshed was reported Friday, said Mr fare: Duma, Barza, Maadamiah and Qabon. Others were reported killed in Azra, activists should confirm their names, but still.
In Barza a witness, said a fear of retaliation wanted to remain anonymous, that at least 1,000 mourners under fire, came as they prepared to four men and two children, 7 years old and the other 14 buried. The witness said security forces to the right the mourners, of which many protection in the nearby mosque Al-Salam was looking for.
He said that shooting lasted at least 10 minutes. Religious leaders within the mosque called on speaker for security forces to stop required on unarmed demonstrators burning and medical help for the wounded.
"she shot directly on people, and all hell broke lose", the witness said. "We could hear voices of children and people scream desperately." "We do not know, how many were killed but we have heard a saying on the phone, that four of his neighbors were killed and many injured."
Duma, another town on the outskirts of Damascus, marched at least 1500 grieving from the main mosque to the cemetery, a witness said. Approached as a government building, police in civilian clothes began to fire you, in barrages, which lasted three hours.
"I saw people I killed," said the witness. "People were injured, and no could help them, help them or to get to you."
His voice turned angry. "How much people can take we know not," he said. "they go not to get every day killed and just keep watch." "If we pay reforms to the President with our lives, then we want not his reforms."
Friday's violence began after the midday asked, if gathered thousands in protest. Their demands have grown since the uprising began: of calls for reform demands, the President Assad step down.
In at least two cities crack demonstrators Mr Assad's image and destroyed statues of the father.
Employees of the New York Times from Beirut in the Lebanon and Damascus contributed.
