While the number of demonstrators, said by some activists of the opposition in hundreds of thousands, could not be confirmed independently, the size of the protests and their level of coordination suggested that fragmented of the Syria opposition movement is reaching new levels of consistency and organization.
The most deadly clashes were in the city of the South of Dara', where security forces opened fire on demonstrators, said witnesses. Death 21 of Syrian activist said of human rights had been confirmed, but this figure was probably increase.
The Government has declared in the same time, its security forces had been fired on by armed groups in Dara' has. The Ministry of the Interior said 19 police officers and members of the security forces were killed, in addition to several civilians, Government Sana news agency reported. It was the first time, the Government has made a significant demand for death.
The figures indicated by the two parties were difficult to verify. Foreign media were not allowed to travel outside Damascus, the capital, and the security forces have sealed off the towns and the suburbs where the largest protests took place.
It is also protests Friday in Damascus, in the suburbs where at least 15 demonstrators were killed by last Friday security forces and the Kurds in eastern cities.
In Washington, President Obama condemned what he called "committed odious violence against peaceful demonstrators by the Syrian Government today and in recent weeks." It also condemned "any use of violence by protesters."
Ausama Monajed, a political activist in London who is in frequent contact with the demonstrators in Dara' was and other cities, said that the protest movement had gained huge momentum and confidence over the past week. Although the Syria is a not a natural mass collection point as Tahrir in Egypt square, said, he found that, across the Syria, the total number of demonstrators could add hundreds of thousands.
He called the attack on demonstrators in Dara'a "massacre". He feared that the Government may be attempts to make an example of Dara'a, where the protests began three weeks after a group of teenagers was arrested for writing anti-Government graffiti, as he did with Hama in 1982.
"What happened is that, after the Friday prayer, the marchers began to sing, ' freedom!" Freedom!' and the security forces opened fire, "Mr. Monajed said in a phone interview." "" When the demonstrators tried to collect the dead and wounded, the security forces opened fire again. ?
There are reports that security forces had closed hospitals, possibly to prevent other protests at funerals Saturday, said Mr. Monajed. According to Islamic custom, the dead are buried as soon as possible, and the funeral of demonstrators in recent weeks have transformed into political demonstrations.
Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian dissident who lives in Maryland and helped organize the protests, saying that according to his contacts in Dara' 100 may have been killed there and up to 500 injured.
Although the protest of the Syria movement is much more decentralized was in Egypt and Bahrain, Mr. Abdulhamid said, its force is growing.
"Each community has its own revolt," he said. "Each week the regime is being forced more close to its end game.".
The murders of Dara'a Friday, he said, were able to attempt by the Government "to send a lesson to other cities", father of the manner in which Mr. Assad, Hafez Al-Assad, massacred at least 10,000 members of Muslim Brotherhood at Hama in 1982 to strike fear Islam across the country.
Amr El-AZM, a Syrian historian, has warned that it was not yet clear how broad support for the protest movement was. He said the number of demonstrators is poor, semi-rural and young, and that class average powerful Sunni superior of the country had not yet decided where he was.
"The urban middle class feel comfortable with these people," he said. "The thing about the Syria, is that for these events to reach critical mass, you need to achieve real change, you have to tap into classes of merchants from Damascus, Aleppo.".
He said the Group was unhappy with the Government but also concerned about stability.
There were also demonstrations Friday in the Eastern Kurdish regions, two days after Mr. Assad has sought to suppress unrest there by offering the Syrian nationality for the Kurds 200,000 approximately, formerly classified by the Government as stateless persons.
Kurdish leaders and human rights activists rejected the offer.
Hakeem Bashar, a Kurdish leader, said that thousands of people had demonstrated in Qamishli, one of the most important cities in the Kurdish Northeast.
"We want all of the requirements that are making the other Syrians in other parts of the country," said Mr. Bashar. "This is national applications, but we also ask them because this is our country." We are Kurds, but we are also Syrian. ?
Security forces have maintained a strong presence in Damascus. Six buses carrying uniformed and police arrived at the mosque Al Rifai, a centre of events of the last week, during Friday prayers, said Wissam tariff, activist of human rights, building opened its doors and beating worshippers as they left.
The security forces be with the demonstrators and others dragged to waiting buses, as they chanted "freedom!" Freedom! ?
The villagers outside Damascus are marching to the Duma, a village where security forces fired on demonstrators last week, killing at least 15 people.
Liam reported Stack of Cairo and Katherine Zoepf of New York. J. David Goodman contributed reporting from New York and an employee of The New York Times in Damascus, Syria.
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