AMMAN - far 11 shot down Syrian security forces in the central city of Homs, Saturday at a funeral mass for the people killed in the latest exercised crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad, a rights activist said.
Counsel for the human rights that Razan Zitouna, stated that it had the names of at least 11 people were killed at funeral Nasr cemetery for 10 pro-democracy demonstrators killed by security forces in Homs were Friday in the shooting.
A witness who was at the funeral and spoke to Reuters by telephone said that the lament yelled "overthrow the regime" and they came by virtue of fire when leaving the cemetery (five miles) eight kilometres north of the Centre of Homs.
"The shooting was in cold blood." People were streaming peacefully outside the cemetery, "he says.
Dozens of people were injured in the attack which took place at about 1200 GMT, he said, adding that he saw five people with bullet wounds in their legs and arms be taken to the hospital.
Syria has banned most international media since the protests erupted two months ago, making it impossible to independently verify accounts of activists and officials.
Another resident of Homs said heavy machine-gun fire was heard in the night in a Bab Amro area, where the deployment this month tanks to crush the growing protests against autocratic Assad.
The killed security forces another demonstrator, named Ziad al-Qadi, when they fired live shells during a demonstration on the outskirts of Damascus, Saqba, a witness said by telephone on the outskirts of 40,000.
"A large demonstration calling for the overthrow of the regime is underway since the afternoon." He considered as the set of the Saqba took to the streets. Security forces came in the evening and began shooting, the witness said.
The latest violence came as Syrian National Organization for human rights has said, the security forces had killed at least 44 civilians Friday in attacks against the pro-democracy demonstrations of through the Syria.
Ammar Qurabi, leaders of the Organization, said important rights activist more than half was killed in the province of Northwest of Idlib, where tanks deployed Friday to crush the large demonstrations against the domination of Assad.
Demonstrations erupted in defiance of a military crackdown that killed more than 800 civilians in the nine weeks, said another group of rights.
Assad rejected largely as events using a foreign-backed plot to sow sectarian strife.
The Syrian authorities blame most of the violence on armed groups, backed by the Islamists and external powers, which they say have killed more than 120 soldiers and police. They have recently suggested that they believe that the demonstrations peaked.
The Syria said Saturday of the armed groups killed 17 people Friday in the provinces of Idlib and Homs to the South.
The news agency said the civilians, police and security forces were killed after armed groups operate the commitment of the police of instructions by the Ministry of the Interior "no step to take, to preserve the lives of civilians."
He said saboteurs set fire to public buildings and the positions of police in Idlib, wounding eight police officers.
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Disorders have posed the most serious challenge to the rule of Assad. In response, he has lifted the State of emergency 48 years and granted citizenship to stateless Kurds, but also sent tanks to several cities to suppress demonstrations.
Violence Friday came a day after the United States, who had first put mute handling Assad of his criticism of the agitation, it say to drive the reform or resign.
"The President can still try to redeem by that a few leaders in Eastern Europe fact, who heads the immediate transformation to democracy and running itself in a fair election if he wants," said Walid al-Bunni opposition figure.
"With all blood that the regime is spilling the protests have been growing and expanding in geographic scope..." "The Syrians have been humiliated and they are going to be quiet no longer, he added."
The main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday are a point of rallying to the demonstrators because they offer the unique opportunity for large gatherings and have seen the worst death tolls.
Activists said protests erupted Friday in the suburb of Damascus, Banias and Latakia on the Mediterranean, the oil production of Deir al - Zor, Qamishli region in the Eastern and the southern Hauran plain.
Rights lawyer Zitouna said Friday at least 12 civilians were killed in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib province, after the tanks entered the city to disperse demonstrators. She said 11 were killed in the Central of Homs city, while seven died in Deraa, Latakia, the suburbs of Damascus and Hama.
Rights activists said that idlib, a relatively prosperous agricultural province, took the first victims of the crackdown on Friday, in which hundreds of Syrians were arrested.
They said that those killed included demonstrators in at least five shot by security forces while they were walking Ariha city, to join with other events in Idlib.
"They took their dead and are returned to the Ariha and fire security and Baath party headquarters and Syriatel Office," said rights activist in the region.
More great the Syria mobile operator, syriatel, belongs to cousin Assad Rami Makhlouf, which has extended its control over the various sectors of the economy since Assad succeeded his father, who died 11 years ago.
