AMMAN - the army tanks shelled a residential neighbourhood in Homs on Wednesday, a rights activist said in the third city of Syria, who has emerged as the most populous of defiance against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
"Homs shaking with the noise of explosions of tank shelling and heavy machine guns, in the neighbourhood of Bab Amro" said Najafi Tayara.
Tayara said that a Syrian Christian was killed by snipers in his head in the neighbouring district of Inshaat, adding that the authorities are trying to raise sectarian tensions to undermine the pro-democracy demonstrations.
He said that Maher Naqour was shot he was standing outside his house in an area where snipers were deployed on roofs in a military sweep.
No there was no immediate comment from the Syrian authorities, who banned most international media of the Syria.
Assad initially responded to the unrest, the most serious problem of its right-of-way for 11 years in power, with promises of reform and cautions that the demonstrators were serving a foreign plot to sow sectarian strife. He was granted citizenship to stateless Kurds and lifted the State of emergency in 48 years.
But he also sent the army to crush the dissent in Deraa where people have first the streets on March 18 and other cities, then stating that he would not risk losing tight control, his family took place over the Syria for the past 41 years.
A cousin of the President said that the Assad family did not capitulate. "We will be sitting here." We call it a struggle to the end... They need to know when we suffer, us will not only suffer "Rami Makhlouf, said the New York Times."
Makhlouf, a Tycoon in the start of the quarantine, which owns several monopolies and his brother, a police chief secret under US sanctions since 2007 for corruption.
Activist rights Suhair al-Atassi said that a demonstration erupted Tuesday in Homs, despite a heavy security crackdown, tanks several districts Sunday and three civilians were killed.
"This regime plays a lost card in advance by sending tanks in cities and besieging them." Syrians have seen their compatriots blood spilled. They will never return to be non-personnes, "she told Reuters."
Demonstrators shouted the name of Makhlouf as a symbol of corruption in a country that has faced severe water shortages and unemployment ranging from estimates of Government of 10 per cent with independent estimates of 25 percent.
Makhlouf was a businessman whose companies provide jobs for thousands of Syrians.
ERDOGAN POSTERS IN BANIAS
Security forces have released 300 people detained in Banias and restored basic services in the coastal town which was stormed by tanks last week, a human rights group said.
Water, telecommunications and electricity had been restored, but tanks remained in the main streets, the Syrian human rights observatory said on Tuesday. Two hundred people, including the pro-democracy protest leaders, were still in prison, he said.
"Scores of those released have been severely beaten and subjected to insults," Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said.
Human rights activists said at least six civilians, including four women, were killed in raids on Sunni neighborhoods and during an attack on a demonstration of women just outside Banias on Saturday.
Until the uprising starts, Assad - sect Shi'ite Alawi minority - had been emerging Western isolation after defying the United States in Iraq and strengthening a block anti-Israeli with the Iran, Syrian Sunni growing concerns.
Banias demonstrators had raised posters of Turkish Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, who has had close ties with Al-Assad, but disputed the Syrian official account of the violence.
Erdogan said more than 1,000 civilians were killed and he did not see a repeat of the violence of Hama 1982 or gassing of Iraqi Kurds in Halabja 1988, the death of 5,000 people.
In Geneva, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon urged the Syria to stop mass arrests and to take into account requests for reform. Ban also said that the humanitarian workers and United Nations human rights monitors should be allowed in Deraa and other cities.
Officials have blamed most of the violence on "army of terrorist groups", backed by the Islamists and agitators foreigners and say a hundred soldiers and police officers were killed.
In Syria in the South, four civilians in the town of South of Tafas were killed then the security forces have extended a campaign of arrests, a human rights activist in the region, said, adding 300 people had been detained since entry tanks Tafas on Saturday.
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