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Email Print Related News Analysis: Syria's Assad torn between repression and reform Fri, Apr 22 2011 Young Syrians conspire covertly to confound police Fri, Apr 22 2011 Obama tells Syria that violence must end now Fri, Apr 22 2011 Analysis & Opinion Afghanistan : The gnawing fear of transition Indonesian Islamists shift targets, religious intolerance rises Related Topics World » Syria » Related Video Bloodshed in Syria. Fri, Apr 22 2011 1 / 3 A still image taken from amateur video purportedly shows anti-government demonstrators rallying in Jasim, Deraa Governorate, April 22, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Amateur Video via Reuters TV By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:26am EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Scores of pro-democracy protesters killed by security forces will be buried across Syria in funerals expected to attract large crowds on Saturday and fuel mounting defiance against authoritarian rule. A group of activists coordinating the demonstrations said regular forces and gunmen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead at least 88 civilians on Friday. Rights groups had earlier put the death toll at a minimum of 70. The Local Coordination Committees activist group sent Reuters a list with names of 88 people classified by region. The group said they were killed in areas stretching from the port city of Latakia to Homs, Hama, Damascus and the southern village of Izra'a. It was by far the bloodiest day yet in a month of demonstrations demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption in the country of 20 million people. "The funerals will turn into vehement protests, like past funerals," a Syrian human rights campaigner said. "When you have security services who are thugs it is difficult to think that they will not shoot at the crowds. Another cycle of funerals and demonstrations is likely to follow," the rights campaigner said from the Syrian capital. President Barack Obama condemned Friday's violence and accused Assad of seeking help from Iran. "This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now," Obama said in a statement. "Instead of listening to their own people, President Assad is blaming outsiders while seeking Iranian assistance in repressing Syria's citizens...." France's Foreign Ministry said Paris was "deeply concerned." "Syrian authorities must give up the use of violence against their citizens. We again call on them to commit without delay to an inclusive political dialogue and to achieve the reforms legitimately demanded by the Syrian people." Those killed were among tens of thousands of people who have taken to the streets of cities and rural areas across Syria calling for the overthrow of the regime, demands which have hardened over recent weeks. ACTIVISTS SAY LIFTING OF EMERGENCY INSUFFICIENT Friday's protests went ahead despite Assad's decision this week to lift the country's hated emergency law, in place since his Baath Party seized power 48 years ago. A statement by the Local Coordination Committees said the end of emergency law was futile without the release of thousands of political prisoners -- most held without trial -- and the dismantling of the security apparatus. In their first joint statement since the protests erupted last month, the activists said the abolition of the Baath Party's monopoly on power and the establishment of a democratic political system was central to ending repression in Syria. 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, Preident Hafez al-Assad, in 2000. Friday's violence brings the death toll to about 300, according to rights activists, since the unrest which broke out on March 18 in the southern city of Deraa. Protests swept the country on Friday, from the Mediterranean city of Banias to the eastern cities of Deir al-Zor and Qamishli. In Damascus, security forces fired teargas to disperse 2,000 protesters in the district of Midan. Amnesty International said Syrian authorities "have again responded to peaceful calls for change with bullets and batons." "They must immediately halt their attacks on peaceful protesters and instead allow Syrians to gather freely as international law demands," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director. Syrian television said eight people were killed and 28 wounded, including army personnel, in attacks by armed groups in Izra'a. It said an armed group had attacked a military base in the Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya. 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 (4) Bloomy wrote: Syria is a very unique situation. I think Assad would be the best person to be the leader of that country because he is able from keeping the country from descending into religious fundamentalism, while maintaining a good rule overall. Apr 22, 2011 8:38pm EDT -- Report as abuse Pro7 wrote: As an early and continuing visitor to the Communist Soviet Union, I observed a police state in action and the fear of its citizens, and now see the same fears among the despotic holders of power in one-party (so like the Communist Party in the USSR) mid-eastern states. Eventually the USSR folded when it became hopelessly economically out-classed by freer societies; so the same is true and will become even more pervasive in nations surpressing peoples best energies with the might of secretive police systems. Apr 22, 2011 9:18pm EDT -- Report as abuse dkbaz wrote: Obama needs to bomb this country too. It would be for humanitarian reasons of course. 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