Beirut (AP) - troops Syrian armoured vehicles and tanks stormed the city in the South of Dara Monday at the start and opened fire, the latest crackdown on a five-week uprising against the regime authoritarian President Bashar al-Assadwitnesses and activists said.
DARA has become an epicenter of the protest movement, including the coup in the city more of a month ago after the authorities arrested a group of teenagers who scribbled anti-Government graffiti on a wall. Since then, more than 300 people have been killed across the country as anti-Government protests have increased.
Activists posted social media images of what they said soldiers initially fired Monday throughout Dara. The sound of heavy artillery fire punctuates sequences, as well as the laboured breathing, afraid of activist film footage. The activist resumed the date, place and said: "the forces of the army come Dara." They bombard the city of Dara. ?
Also Monday, witnesses said Syrian security forces have been opening fire on the outskirts of Damascus.
No there was no immediate word on victims and Dara telephone lines appeared to have been cut.
The video can not be verified independently, and all the witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. The Syria has prohibited almost all the foreign media and limited access to areas of problem since the start of the insurgency, making it almost impossible to obtain independent assessments of the situation on the ground.
But the rise of violence in Syria - more than 120 people have been killed since Friday - brought calls from the watchdog group Human Rights Watch for an investigation of the United Nations.
The Syrian security forces have arrested dozens of opposition activists since Saturday as authorities turned to locate raids to suppress the revolt.
Strategy, described by a rights activist, appeared designed to host the leaders of the opposition and showing that the State's ability to perform radical arrests has not changed despite the abolition of emergency laws almost 50 years last week.
The raids were concentrated in the capital Damascus and the Centre of the city of Homs, a fertile ground for demonstrations against the authoritarian regime of Assad, said Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization for the rights of man in Syria.
"These people are not being orders in a legal way." They are either removed, "said Qurabi, asserting that the plainclothes security officers did not arrest official mandates."
Qurabi has no complete figures for detainees, but said at least 20 people were arrested in Homs.
A resident in the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, said at least five people was placed in detention and authorities cut the phone and Internet lines.
Assad criticized most of the unrest on "foreign plot" and armed thugs trying to sow sectarian strife. Police said 286 SANA State News Agency were wounded since the start of the insurgency. He gave no details.
But may be emerging from the possible cracks within.
Two members left the provincial Council in the southern region of Dara, which has the highest death toll in the country. The resignation came a day after two legislators and a religious leader of Dara has also turned his back on Al-Assad the rejection on the murders.
Internal antagonisms have added resonance since opposition figures were imprisoned or exiled during the 40 years of the Assad family dynasty.
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Associated Press writer Diaa Hadid in Cairo contributed to this report.
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