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Sun, Apr 24 2011 Gunfire and tanks in Syria Sun, Apr 24 2011 Troops open fire in Syria's Deraa Tweet Share this By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops in armored vehicles poured into the restive town of Deraa overnight and opened fire, residents said on Monday, the latest bloodshed in crackdown on protests that has escalated sharply in recent... Email Print Related News Syrian forces open fire in Deraa: reports 12:35am EDT Syrian civilian death toll in Jabla rises to 9 Sun, Apr 24 2011 Timeline: Opposition mounts in Bashar al-Assad's Syria Sun, Apr 24 2011 Analysis & Opinion Guest contribution-Will Pakistan go the Middle East way? Is Africa open for business? Related Topics World » Syria » Related Video Gunfire and tanks in Syria Sun, Apr 24 2011 Syrian forces fire on protesters 1 / 5 A protester bleeding from the head is carried away during a protest in Damascus in this still image taken from an amateur video footage uploaded to social networking websites on April 23, 2011. Thousands of Syrians called for the Credit: Reuters/Social Media Website via REUTERS TV By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:02am EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops in armored vehicles poured into the restive town of Deraa overnight and opened fire, residents said on Monday, the latest bloodshed in crackdown on protests that has escalated sharply in recent days. Syrian writers issued a declaration denouncing the crackdown, a sign of outrage surging through the intellectual elite over the violence. Rights groups say security forces have killed more than 350 civilians since unrest began last month. A third of the victims were killed in the past three days as the scale and breadth of a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad grew. Residents in Deraa, where the protest movement against Asaad first erupted last month, said hundreds of troops had arrived. "They were firing. Witnesses have told me that there have been five deaths so far and houses have become hospitals," a Deraa resident named Mohsen told Al Jazeera by telephone. Foreign journalists have mostly been expelled from the country, making it impossible to verify the situation on the ground. Grisly footage posted on the Internet by demonstrators in recent days appears to show troops firing on unarmed crowds. In some of the latest violence, activists said government troops and gunmen loyal to Assad shot dead at least nine civilians on Sunday in the Mediterranean coastal town of Jabla, where troops deployed following a protest the previous night. Rights campaigners said they feared Assad's forces were preparing for an attack on the town of Nawa after reports of bulldozers and military vehicles heading there. Thousands of people in the town called for the overthrow of Assad on Sunday at a funeral for protesters killed by security forces. Electricity and communications were cut off in parts of Nawa by the evening and residents, some armed, erected barriers in the streets in preparation to defend against attack. "Long live Syria. Down with Bashar!" mourners chanted during the funeral in Nawa, 25 km (15 miles) north of Deraa. "Leave, leave! The people want the overthrow of the regime." In Banias, south of Jabla, protest leaders said they would cut the main coastal highway unless the siege on Jabla was lifted. Jabla is home to large numbers of members of Assad's Alawite Shi'ite minority who had generally stayed away from protests in the past. BARRIER OF FEAR Monday's declaration was signed by 102 writers and journalists, in Syria and in exile, representing all the country's main sects, a sign that shock at the violence is crossing Syria's lines of sectarian division. It called on Syrian intellectuals "who have not broken the barrier of fear to make a clear stand. "We condemn the violent, oppressive practices of the Syrian regime against the protesters and mourn the martyrs of the uprising." Signatories included Alawite figures such as former political prisoner Loay Hussein; female writers Samar Yazbek and Hala Mohammad; Souad Jarrous, correspondent for al-Sharq al-Awsat pan-Arab daily; writer and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh and filmmaker Mohammad Ali al-Attassi. Mansour al-Ali, a prominent Alawite figure from the city of Homs, was arrested in his home city after he spoke out against the shooting of protesters, an activist in Homs said. At least 100 people were killed across Syria on Friday, the highest toll of the unrest, when security forces shot protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption in their country, ruled for 41 years by the Assad dynasty. Another 12 people were killed on Saturday at mass funerals for slain protesters. Rights campaigners said secret police raided homes near Damascus and in the central city of Homs on Sunday, arresting activists. (Additional reporting by Sami Aboudi in Cairo; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Ron Popeski) World Syria Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (5) wade wrote: President Assad–They are comming for you!Cat is out of the bag Dude-your own people are comming for you.The people can not turn back now–things have changed, they will never be the same. They are comming–! Apr 24, 2011 9:41pm EDT -- Report as abuse JiJi99 wrote: Shame on you Reuters for using the term “Sunni district!” This divisive and sectarian-fueling language is completely unacceptable to us Syrians! Moreover, this article is a gross misrepresentation of what is REALLY going on in Syria. While most of the demonstrators have valid demands, some of them are hooligans, others are armed and dangerous. The security forces themselves are incurring serious causalities. While these forces can be heavy-handed at times, most Syrians realize they are needed to maintain a much needed measure of safety. In the past few years, Syria has been plagued by a rising number of crimes committed by armed bandits. This is in large part due to the region’s instability and mounting poverty, but also the progressive loosening of the security forces’ “iron hold.” Unlike you, and some so called “dissidents” in their digital ivory towers, Syrians on the ground will ultimately pay the price should the situation deteriorate further. If you could read Arabic, you’d see for yourself that some of the hooligans (on Facebook for instance) are calling for revenge, and the spilling of blood, even the killing of children, to avenge their suffering. If things were really as you suggest, you’d see tens of thousands of the 23 or so million Syrian citizens in the streets, demonstrating. Why do you think this isn’t happening? Furthermore, given Syria’s secular society, where are the women in this revolution? Apr 24, 2011 11:06pm EDT -- Report as abuse TonyG76 wrote: Since the dawn of Christianity, Christians lived in the Middle East, the original place from which the prophets and Christ himself came. The Assad regime, which is brutal, repressive, and backwards, is however based on a secular system, the Baath ideology. A secular system, such as the Baath regime, ensures the protection of such minorities as the Christians and Shias in countries like Syria and Lebanon. The Iraqi Baath protected the Christians. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Christians were targeted by Muslim extremists. The number of Iraqi Christians is now negligible. The Arab countries have a Sunni majority. The Sunnis in Lebanon are already well financed by Saudi Arabia to create a Sunni Muslim state out of what was once Christian Lebanon. The Sunnis in Syria are the majority amounting to 74% of the total population. Since Syria has always played a significant role in Lebanese politics due to the country’s geography and the history of the political system, the fall of the Assad regime and its overtake by a Wahabi Saudi-backed Sunni regime would mean that minorities such as Christians and Shia Muslims would become 10th class citizens. This would lead to an even higher immigration rate from the Christian side, leaving the Levant, which was once the home of Christianity, without any Christians. This would be indeed unprecedented in human history. 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