Credit: Reuters is unable to verify independently of the content this video, which was obtained in a social media site. Tanks and soldiers are considered allegedly near Deraa, where mass protests took place Sunday in this still image taken of sequences social networking sites, downloaded on April 24, 2011 amateur video. Thousands of Syrians called for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad Sunday at a funeral of demonstrators killed by security forces in the southern town of Nawa, 25 km (15 miles) North of the city of Deraasaid a witness. REUTERS/Social Media website via REUTERS TVBy Khaled Yacoub OweisAMMAN. Monday, April 25, 2011 4 pm EDT
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops in tanks and armoured vehicles poured into the city of the South of Deraa and opened fire Monday, residents, said the latest bloodshed in a crackdown on the protests which have a strongly intensified these last days.
As the army tried to regain control of Deraa, where a month an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad has erupted last month, said activists forces also stormed the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, which has seen large anti-Assad demonstrations.
Rights groups that the security forces have killed more than 350 civilians since the beginning of the disorders. One-third of the victims were killed in the course of three days as the magnitude and the scope of a popular revolt against El-Assad grew.
Assad lifted State of 48 years of the Syria of emergency Thursday, but activists say that violence the following day, when 100 people were killed during demonstrations across the country, showed that it was not seriously to respond to calls for political freedom.
Raids Monday on Deraa and the Duma showed that El-Assad, who took power when his father died in 2000 after having decided to Syria with a strong hand for 30 years, was determined to crush the opposition with force.
Residents said hundreds of soldiers Adraa arrived.
A witness told Reuters that he could see the body lying in a main street near the Omari mosque after eight tanks and two armoured vehicles deployed in the old quarter of the city.
"People are taking cover in homes." "I could see two-body near the mosque and nobody could come out and drag them later", the witness said.
Snipers were posted on government buildings and lattice of the army security forces had fired randomly at houses as the tanks moved in just after dawn prayers.
"They fired." Witnesses said that houses have become hospitals and have been five deaths so far, "an another Adraa resident named said Mohsen Al Jazeera, which has shown what appeared to be a cloud of black smoke over the city."
Tanks at the points of main entrance of the city were also bombing target in Deraa, said Mohsen. "People cannot pass from one street to another because of the bombing."
Foreign journalists have mainly been expelled from the country, making it impossible to verify the situation on the ground. Macabre images displayed on the Internet by protesters the past few days appear to show the troops firing on unarmed crowds. Officials have criticized armed violence groups.
"THE OUTRAGEOUS VIOLENCE."
Despite the deepening of his father Hafez Al-Assad's alliance with the Iran, back influence to the Lebanon and the support of militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, Al-Assad has kept the front line of the Syria with calm Israel and held the indirect peace talks with the Jewish State.
Western criticism of repression Assad, muted initially developed, has recently passed. President Barack Obama urged Assad Friday to stop the "scandalous use of violence" to repress the demonstrations
Main sects of the Syria writers all also released a statement denouncing the repression, a sign of anger surging through the intellectual elite.
Monday Declaration, signed by writers and journalists, Syria and exile, 102 intellectuals called a "which have not broken the barrier of fear to take a clear position."
"We condemn the practices violent, oppressive of the Syrian regime against protesters and mourn the martyrs of the insurgency."
Activists said the Government troops and armed men loyal to Assad shot dead at least 13 civilians since they swept into the Mediterranean town of Jabla Sunday, said the Syrian human rights observatory.
Forces and gunmen loyal to Assad deployment in the old Sunni neighbourhood of Jabla Sunday after a pro-democracy protest the previous night and a warning by the Governor of the province to residents not step to assemble publiclysaid rights activists.
The militants said they feared forces Assad also are preparing for an attack on the town of Nawa, North of Deraa, after reports of bulldozers and vehicles military topic there. Thousands of people called the overthrow of Assad Sunday at a funeral in Nawa to the demonstrators killed by security forces.
Electricity and communications have been cut in some parts of the city by night and residents, some armed, erected barricades in the streets to prepare to defend against an attack.
"Long live the Syria." "Down with Bashar!"lament chanted at the funeral. "Leave, leave!" "People want the overthrow of the regime".
Banias, South of Jabla, protest leaders said they would cut the coast road leading to less than the lifting of the siege of Jabla. Jabla is home to many members of Alawi minority Assad who were generally remained away from protests.
At least 100 people were killed across the Syria Friday, the restlessness, higher cost when shot demonstrators demanding political freedoms and put an end to corruption in their country, security forces ruled for 41 years by the Al-Assad dynasty.
Another 12 people were killed Saturday at funeral of massive for the demonstrators. And rights activists said secret police looted homes near Damascus and in the Centre of the city of Homs Sunday, arrest of militants.
(Other reports by Sami Aboudi in Cairo and Mahmoud Habboush Dubai;) Written by Dominic Evans. (Editing by Paul Taylor)
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