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Credit: Reuters/Sana/Handout By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:29am EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Protesters across Syria demanded President Bashar al-Assad's removal after prayers marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, defying tanks and troops besieging many cities and towns, activists and residents said. Security forces shot dead at least four demonstrators, including a 13-year-old boy, as they streamed out of mosques in the towns of al-Hara and Inkhil in southern Deraa province. Demonstrations broke out elsewhere across the country, especially in Damascus suburbs, the city of Homs, 165 km (100 miles to the north) and the northwestern province of Idlib, activists and residents said. "The people want the downfall of the president," shouted protesters in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, where activists said dozens of soldiers defected at the weekend after refusing to shoot at protesters. In the adjacent suburb of Saqba a crowd held their shoes up in the air -- an insulting gesture in the Arab world -- and chanted "This is your level Bashar." According to one activists' group, troops have killed at least 551 civilians during Ramadan, the holiest period in the Islamic calendar. Five months into the street uprising against his autocratic rule, Assad, from Syria's minority Alawite sect, is facing more frequent demonstrations, encouraged by the demise of Muammar Gaddafi's rule in Libya, with whom Assad had close ties, and rising international pressure on the ruling hierarchy. Residents and activists have also reported increasing defections among Syrian troops, drawn mostly from the Sunni majority population but dominated by Alawite officers effectively under the command of Assad's younger brother Maher. In the capital, YouTube footage showed soldiers from core units roaming the center in big green public transport buses, their AK-47s hanging out from bus doors, to prevent protests, which broke out nonetheless in Qaboun, Kfar Souseh, Rukn al-Din and Maydan districts, activists said. In a report published on Tuesday, the Syrian Revolution Coordinating Union grassroots activists' group said Assad's forces killed 551 people during Ramadan and that 130 others were killed on July 31, the eve of Ramadan, in a tank assault on the city of Hama, scene of a 1982 massacre by the military. "The report does not include the number of martyrs who were not identified by name nor... bodies that were abducted (by security forces) and not returned to their families," it said. The official state news agency said state television had aired an audio recording of two "terrorists" who described themselves as activists. It said the tape revealed "a full agenda of provocation and targeting police and army camps and terrorizing peaceful citizens in the name of freedom and non-violence." The Syrian National Human Rights Organization, headed by exiled dissident Ammar al-Qurabi, said pro-Assad forces, including a loyalist militia known as shabbiha, had killed at least 3,100 civilians since the uprising erupted in March, including 18 people on Monday alone. Syrian authorities blame "armed terrorist groups" for the bloodshed and say they have killed 500 soldiers and police. In the town of Rastan near the city of Homs on Monday, and armored force of Assad loyalists surrounded a town and fired heavy machineguns after the defection of tens of soldiers in the area, activists and residents said. One woman, 45-year-old Amal Qoraman, was killed and five other people were injured, they said, adding that tens of people were arrested in house-to-house raids in the town of 40,000. Syrian authorities have repeatedly denied that army defections have been taking place. They have expelled independent media since the uprising began in March. European Union governments may impose sanctions on Syrian banks as well as energy and telecommunications companies within a week, along with a planned embargo on oil imports from the country, EU diplomats said on Monday. (Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Elizabeth Fullerton) World Syria Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. 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. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (2) ladygoodman wrote: Tic-toc. Just a matter of time, now. If he hasn’t already, Assad needs to start kissing his a$$ goodbye. It didn’t have to be this way. Aug 30, 2011 4:15am EDT -- Report as abuse EN3 wrote: If he was smart. He would negotiate that he cant be tried and convicted of any crimes as long as he steps down. He could take a couple of hundred million leave the country and without the rest of his life in luxury. Now will he do this probably not. Now what will NATO and the UN going to do when, ” arab spring ” comes to saudi arabia? How are they gonna play that card. Aug 30, 2011 11:41am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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