AMMAN (Reuters) - protests broke out across the Syria Friday for the with thousands of the call for freedom in the Kurdish east and dozens briefly walking in Damascus require the eviction of President Bashar al-Assad, activists and witnesses said.
But the army, who stormed the city in the South of Deraa last month to crush resistance in the cradle of the insurrection of seven weeks, deployed tanks in the Centre of the city of Homs and Damascus protest quickly dispersed security forces.
Witnesses said security forces also opened fire on demonstrators in the town of such, just north of the capital, injuring of demonstrators.
Militant Wissam tariff said demonstrations also took place in the South of the city of Jassem, coastal Banias and Amouda to the East.
Activists of the rights of man say army, security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad had killed at least 560 civilians during pro-democracy demonstrations that began in March. Thousands were arrested and beaten, including the elderly, women and children, they said.
Officials give a much lower death toll and say half the deaths were soldiers and police officers, and blame "army of terrorist groups" of violence.
The Western powers, which had sought for several years to engage in Damascus and loosen its alliances anti-israélien with the Iran and militant groups, Hezbollah and Hamas, has condemned the bloodshed.
The United States, who called the Suppression of the army in "barbarian" Deraa, also imposed last week targeted sanctions against the Syrian officials and major powers of Europe have lobbied for the European Union of similar measures.
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Last week, Al-Assad ordered the army to Adraa, cradle of the insurgency that started with demands for greater freedom and put an end to corruption and is now pressing for his removal.
A division of ultra-loyalist conducted by his brother Maher were bombed and machinegunned Adraa of old quarter Saturday, said residents. The Syrian authorities said Thursday the army had started to leave Deraa, but residents described a city still under siege.
Aid workers of the Red Cross and Red Crescent delivered their first emergency relief supplies to Adraa Thursday, providing drinking water, food and first aid materials. They had no immediate information on the number of victims in the city.
Human Rights Watch quoted figures saying Syrian rights groups 350 people had been killed in Deraa. He urged the authorities Friday to "lift the siege" on the city and put end to what he called a national campaign of arbitrary arrests.
"The authorities of the Syria believe that they can fight and kill their way out of the crisis," said HRW Middle East Director Sarah Leah Whitson. "But with each illegal arrest, each murder of a demonstrator, they precipitate a crisis already."
Diplomats said the European Union could reach a preliminary agreement on the imposition of sanctions on the hierarchy of the Syria to power Friday, but did not yet decide whether Al-Assad should be included.
Assad said the demonstrators were part of a foreign conspiracy to provoke sectarian conflicts.
His father Hafez Al-Assad used language similar when it crushed Islamist and secular challenges to its rule in the 1980s, which led to the violent repression of an uprising in the city of Hama, with 30,000 people were killed.
Hafez lost two wars in Israel, as Minister of defence in 1967 and as President in 1973. He held the position of the Syria as a central actor in the geopolitics of the Middle East by strengthening the links with the Iran of Shi'ite and support of the Palestinian guerrilla forces.
The younger El-Assad, which belongs to the Alawi sect of minority, has strengthened the anti-Israel alliance with Tehran, despite the concern on the part of the majority Sunni population of the Syria.
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