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Email Print Related News Teenagers' blood flows in video from Syrian city 11:49am EDT Syrian forces arrest two Kurdish opposition figures 11:49am EDT Syrian forces arrest prominent lawyer in Raqqa-group 11:49am EDT Analysis & Opinion Washington Extra – Syria slap Iranian dissidents and a U.S. dilemma Related Topics World » Syria » Related Video Under fire in Syria Sat, Apr 30 2011 1 / 5 EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR A supporter of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad holds aloft a photograph of the president at Hamidiya market in Damascus April 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN | Mon May 2, 2011 11:50am EDT AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces going house to house rounded up more people in a clampdown on pro-democracy unrest across the country on Monday, rights activists said, after taking control of Deraa, cradle of the uprising. Human rights campaigners said hundreds of pro-democracy sympathizers had been arrested since Sunday in an attempt to quell the six-week-old revolt, the gravest challenge ever to the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad. "They are continuing their arrest operation in all the cities of Syria. They have lists and they are going into houses looking for people," activist Ammar Qurabi told Reuters. "These are arbitrary arrests, it is happening without a warrant. We do not know what their charges are. Nobody knows." Looking for men under 40 years old, security forces broke into houses in the old quarter of Deraa that a tank-backed force led by Assad's brother Maher shelled into submission on Saturday, witnesses told Reuters by telephone on Sunday. The state news agency SANA said on Monday army units tracked down "terrorist groups that have terrorized civilians (in Deraa)...and killed 10 of its members and arrested 499 of them." SANA quoted an army source as saying that in addition to the 10 dead, security forces also killed five snipers who were shooting at pedestrians. The source told SANA that two members of the security forces were also killed in clashes. Syrian protesters deny that they have weapons and are using them in the unrest, targeting 48 years of Baath Party domination in Syria and inspired by other popular Arab revolts that have overthrown the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt this year. Prominent rights campaigners were also arrested in the eastern cities of Qamishli, Raqqa and in suburbs of Damascus, along with scores of ordinary Syrians active in the mass protests demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption. Qurabi said the security forces arrested writer Omar Khoush upon his return from Ankara. The reasons were not clear, he said. CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL AT 560--RIGHTS GROUPS Syrians kept up protests despite the arrests and violent repression that has resulted in the killing of at least 560 civilians by Assad's security forces, human rights groups say. In the central city of Homs, thousands marched on Sunday chanting "downfall of the regime!" In Rastan to the north, a funeral was held for 17 men killed when military intelligence agents fired at a protest on Friday during which the names of 50 resigning members of Assad's Baath Party were being read out. Signs of discontent have been also emerging in the majority Sunni Muslim ranks of the army commanded by officers from the minority Alawite sect, to which the Assad family belongs. Two thousand Kurds in the village of Karbawi near Qamishli attended the funeral of 20-year-old conscript Ahmad Fanar Mustafa. His father accused security forces of killing him for refusing to take part in the repression. Fanar Mustafa refused to let the governor of the province attend the funeral of his son. "They kill and then they want to march in the funeral of the murdered," the father was quoted as saying by a witness at the funeral. In Deraa, where the protests first broke out on March 18, a witness said young men in the old quarter fled to safety in neighboring villages to the west as security forces dragged 450 men under the age of 40 from their homes. The witness, a trader who ducked Syrian security and crossed into the Jordanian city of Ramtha on Sunday, said the authorities were cleaning Deraa of blood from dozens of youths killed by machinegun fire. Security forces drove away two trucks with the bodies of 68 civilians killed since Assad sent tanks into Deraa on Monday. "Bullets are their response to the people's revolt. The security forces who came to Deraa told us 'Go buy bread from a bakery called Freedom. Let's see if it feeds you'," said a prominent lawyer in Deraa who declined to be identified further. Foreign media are banned from Syria, making it harder to confirm accounts of events in the country. (Writing by Mariam Karouny; additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi; editing by Mark Heinrich) 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 (1) Alfred.Brock wrote: Is Bashar al-Assad some sort of genetic mutant? Look at that poster the guy is holding up. He looks like some sort of reptile. 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