BEIRUT. Tue, April 12, 2011 6: 00 pm EDT
Beirut (Reuters) - the Syrian security forces prevented the demonstrators injured reaching hospitals and stopped for medical teams treat them in two cities demonstrations last Friday, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
Pro-democracy demonstrations against the domination of 11 years President Bashar al-Assad have been shaking the country, known for his authoritarian security apparatus, for more than three weeks.
Protests after the Friday prayer mass were generally the largest that the emergency law, in force since the Baath Party took power in 1963, prohibits gatherings and events not sponsored by the State.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said 27 people were killed in the city of the South of Deraa and another on the outskirts of Damascus in the Duma Friday.
"Deprive the injured in critical medical and perhaps save lives treatment is inhuman and illegal," said Sarah Leah Witson, Director of the HRW Middle East.
"The leaders of the Syria talk about political reforms, but they respond to the legitimate requirements of their people for the reform of balls."
Evidence-based Human Rights Watch said set a roadblock near a bridge in Deraa to prevent demonstrators crossing of the other part of the city of security forces.
A witness said about 50 soldiers were in the front, surrounded by thousands of police officers in uniform and in civilian members of security and of snipers.
When the protesters ignored warnings to stop army, security forces fired with Kalashnikov and snipers opened fire at the same time.
DEMONSTRATORS "SECURITY FORCES WERE KILLED."
Friday Syrian State television broadcast images of some dressed masked gunmen of firing from behind a wall in what she said was Deraa. The authorities said "armed groups," to which they were blamed for the unrest, killed 19 people in the town Friday.
Two demonstrators told Human Rights Watch that some demonstrators had seized the arms of a position of control abandoned the army and fired at security forces, killing at least a dozen of them and by setting two cars belonging to the military services and fire safety.
The Government has restricted access to media in city, where the protests first exploded in March. Rights of the principal of the Syria movement said 200 people were killed in the unrest.
Witness to Human Rights Watch said the security forces did not ambulances collect the wounded and continuous shooting of protesters who tried to carry the wounded.
"(Le_témoin) said that he later saw the bodies of a doctor, a nurse and an ambulance driver, who, other witnesses, he said were killed when their ambulance tried to reach the demonstrators injured," Human Rights Watch said in its statement.
Human Rights Watch also documented accounts of two witnesses in the suburb of Damscus of Harasta said security forces fired on demonstrators trying to help the wounded. Both doctors said they each treaty four demonstrators injured with gunshot wounds in various parts of their body. Many were children.
"The Syrian authorities respond to protests against the crackdown with more suppression: murders, beatings and torture mass arbitrary arrests,"Whitson said."".
(Written by Yara Bayoumy, editing by Paul Taylor)
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