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St. Louis airport to reopen after tornado damage Watched Nissan checks cars for radiation Fri, Apr 22 2011 More clashes at Thai-Cambodia border Sat, Apr 23 2011 Fleeing Misrata 12:37am EDT Syrian forces raid homes as Assad opposition mounts Tweet Share this By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said on Sunday, as popular opposition to authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad mounted following the bloodiest attacks on pro-democracy... Email Print Factboxes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Sat, Apr 23 2011 International reaction to Syria's crackdown Sat, Apr 23 2011 Related News Second Syrian lawmaker quits in protest at killings Sat, Apr 23 2011 Preacher of Syria's Deraa province quits over killings Sat, Apr 23 2011 Obama tells Syria that violence must end now Fri, Apr 22 2011 Analysis & Opinion On the front lines of the Ivorian crisis Guest contribution-Will Pakistan go the Middle East way? Related Topics World » Related Video Bloodshed in Syria. Fri, Apr 22 2011 1 / 4 A still image taken from an amateur video on April 22, 2011 shows protesters holding a large Syrian flag during a demonstration in Deraa. Credit: Reuters/Amateur video via Reuters TV By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:15pm EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Secret police raided homes near Damascus overnight, rights campaigners said on Sunday, as popular opposition to authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad mounted following the bloodiest attacks on pro-democracy protesters. Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad killed at least 112 people in the last two days when they fired at protests demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption on Friday and on mass funerals for victims a day later. The attacks were the bloodiest, and the demonstrations were the biggest, since protests erupted in the southern city of Deraa in the strategic Hauran plain near the border with Jordan over five weeks ago. "Bashar al-Assad, you traitor! You coward. Take your soldiers to the Golan," protesters chanted on Saturday, chiding Assad for turning his forces on his own people instead of liberating the Golan Heights, where the frontier with Israel has been quiet since a 1974 ceasefire. Security operatives in plain clothes wielding assault rifles broke into homes in the suburb of Harasta just after midnight on Sunday, arresting activists in the area, known as the Ghouta, or the old garden district of the capital. Assad lifted an emergency law this week, in place since his Baath Party seized power 48 years ago, in a bid to appease protesters and ease international criticism of the use of deadly force against civilians. Opponents say the crackdown on demonstrators and the arrests that followed show the move was hollow. GRISLY VIDEO Assad has ejected most foreign media from the country during his crackdown on protesters, so independent reports of the violence are difficult to verify. Demonstrators have been using the Internet to get out pictures of the violence, many of which have been explicit. One video posted on Internet site YouTube showed a crowd marching on Friday near Abbasside square in Damascus, purportedly on Friday, chanting "the people want the overthrow of the regime," before the sound of gunfire was heard. Demonstrators raised their hands to show that they were unarmed. The fire intensified. One youth fell, with blood spurting from his head and back. His comrades lifted him but dropped his body when the sound of bullets resumed. In Abada village, 10 kilometres from Damascus, rights campaigners said security forces were preventing people injured in Friday's protests from reaching hospital. A cleric in contact with the town of Nawa near Deraa said residents told him security forces had fired indiscriminately. Aided by his family and a pervasive security apparatus, Assad, 45, has absolute power, having ignored demands to transform the anachronistic autocratic system he inherited when he succeeded his late father, president Hafez al-Assad, in 2000. In a move unthinkable in Syria just five weeks ago, two lawmakers from Deraa in Syria's' rubberstamp parliament resigned on Saturday to protest against the killings of protesters. The weekend protests stretched from the port city of Latakia to Homs, Hama, Damascus, its suburbs and southern towns. The death toll rose to around 350, with scores of missing, since the demonstrations broke out on March 18, rights campaigners said. World 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 (2) scrubbs wrote: Although I support the people of Syria, the fact that they chant slogans for the army to re-ignite the Israeli conflict makes me support the government. The people lost my support and now I agree that no help be sent to Syria to overthrow the government. Why would the US help overthrow a government only to replace it with one that would begin a war with Israel? Apr 23, 2011 10:19pm EDT -- Report as abuse yunisaid wrote: “It’s really spring citizens who woken from their slumber and say enough is enough of a dictator and authoritarian despotism to our necks slave era has ended a long time ago and this is what he is doing the Syrian citizens heroes and at the same time a revolution of citizens showed the fact that the Arab rulers in the exercise of crimes against their fellow citizens. 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