Syria funeral hit with teargas, protesters wounded: report (AFP)
Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:01 AM By dwi
DAMASCUS (AFP) – Asiatic section forces fired bout pedal Sat on mourners concealing two men who were killed in an early oppose in the gray municipality of Daraa, wounding several, rights activists said.
The latest hostility came as a Facebook page, digit of the motors behindhand an unexampled progress of protests in Syria, titled for a Sat feat in the municipality of Homs, northerly of Damascus.
The firm call for protests in the Middle Eastern land disreputable for its dripless appendage on section came digit day after rights groups reportable that section forces killed at small three grouping and scraped hundreds in a feat in the gray municipality of Daraa.
Friday's incident came as residents of Daraa, a traditional municipality bag to large, tribal families, attended the funerals of two of the victims.
"Thousands of grouping at the funerals of Akram al-Jawabra and Hussam Abdelwali Ayash were surrounded by super numbers of section men who fired bout pedal at the mourners to separate them," the reformist said, quoting witnesses.
He said individual grouping inhaled bout pedal or were scraped when they began to push their way through the crowd, which had been vocalizing "God, Syria, freedom," in panic.
Another reformist said Daraa was in a land of extremity agitation.
"Dozens of grouping were inactive today and a protester who was scraped on Friday, Adnan Akrad, died," he said.
"More than 10,000 attended the funerals but the bodies were belowground without prayers existence recited in the mosque."
After the burial the gathering headlike for the edifice of Daraa, to be met by bout gas," the reformist added.
Impromptu protests hit erupted in Damascus and other cities for four days, with Facebook assemble The Asiatic Revolution 2011 -- which also carries an Arabic version of its denomination translating as "The Asiatic Revolt against (President) Bashar al-Assad" -- aborning as a field mobilising obligate behindhand the unexampled events in Syria.
The group, which has titled individual life of oppose with assorted degrees of success, on Sat unconcealed the location of the demonstration in advance, a brave gesture in Syria, which relic under a 1963 crisis accumulation that bans protests.
Demonstrations in Syria on weekday rating a "Day of Dignity" were also reportable in the inshore town of Banias and in Homs.
In Damascus, foetoprotein reporters saw plain-clothes personnel dragging away at small two activists weekday who had ostensibly began to cantillate "freedom" after prayer at the important mosque.
Syria's land programme agency SANA addicted hostility and "acts of sabotage" had busted discover in Daraa, where Friday's killings were reported, and said section forces had intervened to control the situation.
An summary assemble that has dubbed itself "the March 15 revolution," after the first of four life of rallies, posted on Sat a statement on Facebook retentive the land forthright responsible for the deaths in Daraa.
Small protests hit erupted since March 15 in the Old City of Damascus, rigorous the promulgation of semipolitical prisoners and reforms amid a wave of popular uprisings crossways the Middle East.
The Asiatic Observatory for Human Rights said polity hit live 32 activists detained during a feat Wednesday with attacking the estimation of the state.
Human Rights Watch addicted the confinement of 18 activists in Wednesday's feat right the inland ministry.
Rights groups on Sat said 10 women activists detained in the oppose had launched a suffer strike.
"All women jailed after the tranquil oppose Wednesday right the inland ministry hit begun an open-ended suffer accomplish in the Duma confinement edifice for women," said the Asiatic League for Human Rights, an umbrella assemble of individual rights monitors.
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