Syrian forces fire at funeral of demonstrators

The number of deaths since the demonstrations Friday, one of the bloodiest days in the so-called Arab spring, was passed by Saturday with 109 people, a number that says militants was likely to rise more than bodies have been returned to their families. Another group said 114 people were killed.

The bloodshed Saturday followed a pattern frequently seen in the tumult that has swept the Arab world. Funerals have often turned into demonstrations, where most were killed by the folded security forces crushing of dissent against the authoritarian leaders. Pale compared to the number of deaths last Saturday killed Friday, he suggested that the country could be entering a prolonged period of unrest as protesters continue to encourage the greatest challenge to four decades of rule Assad family.

Government of President Bashar al-Assad has struggled to cope with agitation, offering concessions which would have been surprising at a time, during the use of violence against those who continue in demonstrations. Although the revolt attracted many in the streets, since it began March 15, he has yet to reach the critical mass of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. However, organizers say that they believe that the bloodshed can attract more people into the fold of the uprising.

A possible sign of cracks in the facade of the Government, two members of the powerless Parliament largely the Syria resigned Saturday. The two, Khalil al-Rifai and Nasser al-Hariri, two independent legislators in Dara', where the uprising began, said Al Jazeera that they were resigned to protest the killing of demonstrators.

Wissam tariff, the General Director of Insan, a human rights group, said that the fired live ammunition to lament after security forces they buried their dead. The funeral soon became demonstrations, calls to the fall of Mr. Al-Assad, who has inherited from his father, Hafez, in 2000. Such requests, uttered publicly, once unbelievable and serve as a marker of outrage is how to overcome fear in the repressive State.

Mr. tariff said 11 people were killed in the towns on the outskirts of Damascus, where some of the worst bloodshed was reported Friday: Duma, Barza, Maadamiah and Qabon. Other people were reportedly killed in Azra summers, but the militants did not yet confirm their names.

In S123, a witness who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals said that at least 1,000 were lament of the fire that they were preparing to bury the four men and two children, a 7 years and 14 others. The witness said security forces aimed directly the lament, which many sought refuge in the nearby Al-Salam mosque.

He said that the shooting lasted at least 10 minutes. Religious leaders inside the mosque pleaded speakers for security forces prevent fired them on demonstrators armed and called medical aid for the wounded.

"They shot directly to the people and all hell broke lose", the witness said. "We could hear the voices of children and of people screaming frantically." We do not know how many were killed, but we have heard a saying by telephone that four of its neighbours were killed and several wounded. ?

In the Duma, another town on the outskirts of Damascus, at least 1500 lament walk of the great mosque of the cemetery, a witness said. Approach a government building, police fired on them, in dams which lasted three hours.

"I saw people killed in front of me", the witness said. "People were on the ground wounded and could not help, help, or obtain their.".

His voice turned angry. "How many people can take, we don't know," he said. "They won't get killed every day and just keep watch.". If we are going to finance the reforms of President with our lives, then we don't want his reforms. ?

The violence Friday began after noon prayers, when thousands gathered in protest. Their demands have increased since the start of the insurgency: calls to reform requests that President Assad resign.

At least two towns, protesters destroyed Mr. Assad photo and statues that shipwrecked of his father.

Employees of the New York Times contributed to Damascus and Beirut (Lebanon).

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Security fire Forces on demonstrators in the town of Syrian restive

The crowd had gathered to protest a deadly crackdown by security forces who activists say killed 14 demonstrators Sunday. Tensions mounted throughout the day, and around 2 pm Tuesday forces began to draw again, witnesses said.

Shortly before 3 a.m., a woman who lives near the place of the said by cell phone: "Shooting is heard echoing across the city." Mosques are asking for help. "We fear that many of them are killed in the square, it's a massacre".

Razan Zeitouneh, an activist with the link of Information of the human rights of the Syrian Damascus, said she heard shots by telephone while talking to a distraught friend instead. He said he saw four people were killed and dozens injured.

Renewed protests amounted to a denial of concessions outlined by President Bashar al-Assad in a televised speech, lifting Saturday including State of 48 years of the country of emergency later this week.

Funeral processions in Homs Monday, far to new Square Tower of the clock in the first traditional prayers offered for the dead. But the demonstrators began to applause and chanting against Mr. Assad as a walking funeral caskets swelling has thus overhead.

Security forces fired into the air in the afternoon, witnesses said by telephone, but the crowd refused to disperse. At 7: 45 that a protester reported that security forces had begun surrounding the place that the crowd chanted, "A sit-in, a dining room until the overthrow of the regime."

Activists called the "tahrir" square - the Arabic word for liberation and the name of the place in Cairo where mass protests overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in February.

"They want to create a moment Tahrir-like, a decisive event," said Ammar Abdulhamid, the leader of the Syrian opposition under the based in Maryland that is in contact with some of the young activists.

Another activist of the rights of man, Rassem al-Atassy, said by telephone from Homs during the day, people are in charge in the city centre now."

Ahmad, 28, a student of the University in protest of Homs, said: "the people of Homs, we ask three day general strike show our rejection of the murder in cold blood of peaceful demonstrators." Homs is boiling and no one can tell you what will happen in the near future.

Mr. Abdulhamid said activists in the square were not armed, but had organized themselves to sleep in shifts, anticipating a confrontation on the day the day.

Late Monday night, the news agency, SANA, reported that the Ministry of the Interior called disorders "an armed mutiny" led by radical Salafi Muslims.

"The Department added that these armed groups have committed vicious crimes that the law would punish with stronger penalties," said SANA. "These groups aim to sow chaos and terrify the Syrian people, exploiting the process of reform and freedom launched a comprehensive program according to specific schedules announced by President Bashar al-Assad."

Radwan Ziadeh, a researcher Syrian human rights activist invited to the George Washington University, said the statement by the Ministry has suggested that the Government of the Syria was considering a confrontation with the demonstrators.

"I am very concerned by the statement," said Mr. Ziadeh. "It is a justification for what they intend to do so in the next few hours." This is the green light for the armed confrontation.

"I spoke to five or six protesters in Homs, and there are many women and children in the place, families, women making sandwiches." Minarets, they called for more information to join the demonstration. They estimated 50 000 today.

"But all communication was cut now.". I lost them. ?

Ms. Zeitouneh, of the Human Rights Information link Syrian, said that up to 20 people may have died at Homs on Sunday. Security forces opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators with live ammunition and tear gas, said another witness by telephone.

State media has reported that an officer of the army, Brigadier-General Khodir al-Tilawi, two of his sons and nephew have been ambushed, bullets and brutally mutilated by "armed criminal groups."

Ms. Zeitouneh said that she had received reports from the coastal city of Latakia that security forces had opened fire Sunday evening on the demonstrators there as well. The number of victims did not know immediately.

Wissam tariff, Executive Director of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, said that five died in Latakia.

Activists of human rights said Monday that the forces in both the Homs and Latakia were arresting demonstrators injured in local hospitals, leading a physician in Homs to say that, up to a dozen patients in a critical condition could have died in detention.

Syrian protests coincided with the new disclosures that in 2005 the United States began to finance secretly some wishing to Syrian opposition groups to overthrow Mr. Assad. Disclosures, in the diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks, showed the funding of the Department of State of Barada TV, a radio broadcaster anti-Assad satellite run by Syrian exiles in London, as well as the concern by diplomats Americans in Syria Syrian intelligence officers began to suspect the funding two years ago.

Liam reported Stack of Cairo and Katherine Zoepf of New York. An employee of the New York Times paid of Damascus Declaration, Syria, Scott Shane of Washington and j. David Goodman of New York.

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Egypt demonstrators demanded trial Mubarak

Protesters burn a beat busPolice their return with sticks and fire tear gasThe demonstrators seeking the prosecution of former President Hosni MubarakThey are also disgruntled 20-man military secret Council

Cairo (CNN) - artillery fire and clashes continuing in Cairo on Saturday at the beginning Tahrir square and demonstrations prolonged protesters aimed at pushing the Egyptian military Council of former President Hosni Mubarak to continue.

About 1,000 demonstrators were in and around Tahrir square, at 2: 30 pm Saturday with a crowd of riot police and army soldiers.

The situation quickly turned into chaos as police and soldiers beat demonstrators with batons and tear gas kick.

Demonstrators were seen burning a bus and wear military hats that they had wrenched off the coast of the head of the soldier as gunfire sounded.

Hours later, security forces withdraw from the place, leaving behind the spent casings and, in one place, a pool of blood. Egyptians were left to feel shocked, confused and angry.

"It was a disaster," said Shadi Essam manifesting. "The army attacked us in coordination with the police."

Essam said activists have tried to help dissident military personnel to escape repression. "We have tried to help four of them to flee." We dressed as civilians. ?

The clashes came a day after amassing large crowds of demonstrators on the Tahrir, many of them place in anger against the new military leaders of the Egypt.

After the overthrow of Mubarak in February, the army took control - a wave of popularity for refusing to fire on demonstrators pro-democracy during 18 days of anti-Government protests.

But in the weeks that followed, the Council of 20-man secret came more in addition to the frustration and criticism of different parts of the spectrum policy Egyptian. Critics have complained of violations of human rights and the lack of transparency in the decision-making process of the Council.

Friday, some soldiers joined the protests in a direct challenge to the military leaders of the Egypt. For long intervals, they took to a stage erected on the place crowded and called for the military leaders of the country to be replaced.

"If they really wanted to pursue these corrupt officials they would have done it immediately.". This is why we are here today, "one of the officers who were told Friday protests."

Earlier this week, several army officers took to the internet, recording video statements accusing the President of the Council the power, field marshal Mohammed Tantawi, to protect Mubarak from prosecution and leading a counter-revolutionary movement.

"He should resign." He makes stupid moves. He has not learned errors of the past 60 years. Military must not run countries, "said Mohamed Ibrahim Garib, who makes life import and export of clothing."

The military, issued a statement Saturday morning, accusing a former member of Mubarak a long-National Democratic Party in the "incentive to Tahrir.".

The army announced that it had issued arrest warrants for Member of Parliament for the NPD Ibrahim Kamel and several of his associates after accusing him of being "present in Tahrir square after the curfew as thugs and frighten citizens."CNN Ivan Watson and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report

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The Syria to the demonstrators: no mercy more

Amnesty International: most of the dead appear was killed by Dr. forcesA security tells CNN 22 civil unarmed died in Syrian DaraaThe, official news agency reported 19 of the security forces were killed.

(CNN) - the Syria Government said Saturday its intentions to crack down hard on what he describes as violent disorders by the instigators of the outside.

"There is no more place for clemency and tolerance in the application of the law", said the Ministry of the Interior.

The tough statement comes in a report of clashes in the West coastal city of Latakia on Saturday. A human rights activist, said Saturday that responsible for the hospital has he used live bullets to disperse demonstrators.

The Syria made the statement after protests generalized Friday and near Dara and Latakia, Banias, Qamishli, Homs, Duma, Moathamia, Daraya, Tal and Hama.

Protesters have been saying that their peaceful belching have been met with force by Syrian security.

The national organization for the rights of man in Syria, a group of militants, has identified 37 people killed across the country Friday. He said security forces used tear gas and firing on unarmed civilians made dozens of arrests and a descent in the houses. A witness said at least 22 unarmed civilians were killed in Dara.

Wissam tariff, a human rights activist, city responsible for the hospital as saying that the demonstrators to Latakia were treated early Saturday for injuries by live bullet. He also said funerals were planned to Dara Saturday for the demonstrators, who died Friday and said witnesses spoke of arrests in Damascus and Aleppo.

But the Syria accuses the instigators and saboteurs to infiltrate peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes. For example, the Government said 19 security forces were killed in Dara Friday and dozens of others were injured in violence caused by gunfire "armed groups" citizens and non-"security forces".

The Government is aware of the widespread condemnation and international to the Syria and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, explains the position of the Government to foreign ambassadors in Damascus, according to the official Syrian Arab news agency or SANA.

The Ministry of the Interior noted that protesters took the streets with applications quickly addressed by the Government, which announced orders and responses to various grievances.

However, there are some malicious people, foreigners and those who have been forced by the known foreign parties, accompanied by flagrant incitement by satellite channels and internet sites, which did not like initiatives and responses to citizens requires only carried out "said the Ministry.

The Ministry said attackers burned down military and official establishments and security personnel "always committed to not to open fire" have been killed and wounded. He urged citizens to identify "criminals" responsible and report them to authorities.

"It became apparent that these individuals do not reform want and are not affected by the popular application, or banning the use of weapons, taking advantage of the latter and to infiltrate demonstrators or people to see off the coast of martyrs." "They began to open fire randomly to cause a schism between citizens and security personnel," the Ministry said.

Anti-Government protests began in mid-March, with stirring first centering in Dara region, and spread later in other regions of the country.

Dozens of people died, and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been criticized for deadly force against anti-government protesters.

US President Barack Obama said Friday that "it is time that the Syrian Government to stop repressing its citizens and to listen to the voice of the Syrian people, calling for political and economic reforms meaningful."

Amnesty International said no armed people call "for more freedoms were allegedly attacked by security forces firing actual bullets."

"The alarming reports from today show Syria that the authorities have not modified their violent methods to deal with dissent," said Philip Luther, Director Assistant of the program of Amnesty International's Africa of North and Middle East.

Amnesty said Friday that at least 171 people are supposed to have been killed in the last three weeks of protest.

Abuse in Syria have long been alleged in the international arena, before even the protests began last month.

The US State Department report was published just 2010 human rights, said last year committed security forces Syrian "unlawful killings, political and human rights activists detained and tortured and physically abused prisoners and detainees with impunity."

Government opponents argue the massive violations of human rights and call for political and economic reforms. They also want the release of all political prisoners and at the end of the emergency law.

An application has been the lifting of the 48 years of the country emergency law.

The emergency law authorizes the Government to carry out preventive arrests and override constitutional and the laws of the penal code. In force since 1963, it also prevents the detainees who were not charged to file complaints to the Court and to have a lawyer present during interrogation.

Al-Assad indicated that it is capable of reform and that it has formed a Committee to study the lifting of the emergency law. He also announced Syrian nationality to thousands of people in the region of the Kurdish country which had been stripped of their citizenship and classified as "foreign". Salma Abdelaziz of CNN has contributed to this report.

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Soldiers and demonstrators clash in Cairo

Cairo (AP) - protesters burned cars and barricaded with the barbed wire in a central square in Cairo, demanding the resignation of the Chief of the army after troops violently dispersed a protest the day the day a killing and injuring 71.

Hundreds of soldiers beat demonstrators with clubs and fired them in the air in the raid before dawn in Central Cairo's Tahrir square in a sign tensions between the decision of the military Egypt and the demonstrators.

Armed with sticks and other makeshift weapons, protesters promised no step to leave until the Minister of defence, the head of State holds, has resigned.

Soldiers swept into the square around 3 o'clock in the morning and wading in a tent camp in the centre where the demonstrators formed a human cordon to protect several army officers who had joined their demonstration despite their superiors.

Ali Mustafa, an auto mechanic who was pointing tries to guard the "free soldiers", said he saw the armed stab one of the officers with his bayonet, a section of roadway stained with blood under a small pile of refuse and food remnants.

Another demonstrator was killed by a bullet, said Ahmed Gamal, who was there for the night. He added that he saw at least two other seriously injured by live bullets. The death could not be confirmed.

Television cited State Department of health saying that a person was killed and 71 wounded.

The troops dragged an unknown number of demonstrators away, put them in trucks of the police, eyewitnesses said.

The army issued a statement later blame "outlaw" of rioting and violating the curfew for 2 hours of the morning at 5 a.m. on the morning of the country and stated that no one was hurt or arrested.

He said: "the armed forces emphasize that they will tolerate any acts of riots or any act which interferes with the interest of the country and the people,".

A black smoke increased in the sky as the Sun came to Cairo after three vehicles, including two troops carriers, were burned.

The square was filled shattered glass, stones and debris of fighting, in a scene reminiscent of the protests in January that brought down the regime of Hosni Mubarak. The storefront of a KFC in square glass was was also broken.

"We are staging a sit-in until that Marshal is prosecuted," said Anas Esmat, a student of 22 years in the square as demonstrators dragged debris and barbed wire to seal off the streets leading to the place.

"People want the collapse of the Marshal," chanted demonstrators, in a variation on the song that became famous throughout the Middle East with demonstrations calling for regime change. "Tantawi is Mubarak and Mubarak Tantawi," was another song, equating expressly Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the Minister of defence, with the President who appointed him once.

The clashes came hours after hundreds of thousands massed in place Tahrir Friday in one of the largest protests for weeks, demanding that ousted military prosecution President Hosni Mubarak and his family for alleged corruption.

The rally was a show of growing impatience and mistrust Egyptians much feel toward the military, who took over when Mubarak was forced from his duties on 11 February. Some protesters accuse the military direction of protection Mubarak - a former military man himself - and more broadly, many are not clear about the intentions of the army in the transition of the country.

More than in the previous demonstrations, songs and banners Friday directly criticize the Supreme Council of the army of the Armed Forces and Tantawi, a former loyalist Mubarak.

A number of uniformed military officers joined the demonstrators, some of them accusing the Supreme Council of the corruption in the speech to the crowd. After the dark of night, hundreds of demonstrators remained on the square, with the intention of camp with officers.

Before the assault before dawn, military police attempted to repeatedly move and hold the officers but are repulsed by the demonstrators. At one point, the protesters pushed and shoved a general army, tear his cap from his head.

After the attack in the early hours of the morning, the scene is chaotic. Families camped in tent protest searched for children which is lost in the chaos. Outside, demonstrators had with soldiers on the side streets, singing, "Maréchal, tell your soldiers, we aren't leaving.".

Near the famous Egyptian Museum, which overlooks the square, demonstrators who tried to flee were blocked by soldiers, who hit them and them thrown to the ground before by dragging farther.

"I saw hold them a bouquet at the Museum." They have beaten some poorly, "said one protester, Loai Naggati.

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