AMMAN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Syrians demanded the depose of President Bashar al-Assad on Sat at funerals for scores of grouping killed by section forces in the country's bloodiest pro-democracy protests, witnesses said.
Security forces unsealed fire at one of the funerals, in the Damascus community of Douma, harm threesome people, witnesses there said.
They also fired on grouping hunt to tie accumulation funerals in the gray community of Izra'a, where witnesses said at small 12 funerals were attractive place, with mourners chanting "Bashar al-Assad, you traitor! Long live Syria, down with Bashar!"
"There was heavy volley of effort in our content as we approached Izra'a to tie the funerals of martyrs," one witness from the gray municipality of Deraa who came to attend the burials in Izra'a told Reuters.
Two activists said on Sat at small 100 grouping were killed during Friday's protests. A assemble of activists coordinative the demonstrations had said previously that lawful forces and hitman hardcore to Assad effort dead at small 88 civilians on Friday.
The demonstrators were killed in areas stretching from the opening municipality of Latakia to Homs, Hama, Damascus and the gray community of Izra'a, it said.
Friday was by far the bloodiest period in more than a period of demonstrations demanding semipolitical freedoms and an modify to corruption in the land of 20 meg people.
Damascus was suspenseful on Sat and many grouping stayed indoors, an reformist told Reuters from the capital.
"We are worried that during the funerals more blood module be spilled which module provoke more protests and more death," he said.
"This is decent same a snowball and getting large and large every week. Anger is rising, the street is boiling."
CONDEMNATION
U.S. President Barack Obama condemned Friday's hostility and accused Assad of hunt support from Iran.
"This outrageous ingest of hostility to meet protests staleness become to an modify now," Obama said in a statement. "Instead of perception to their own people, President Assad is blaming outsiders while hunt Persian assistance in repressing Syria's citizens...."
France's Foreign Ministry said Paris was "deeply concerned."
"Syrian polity staleness provide up the ingest of hostility against their citizens. We again call on them to commit without delay to an comprehensive semipolitical talking and to attain the reforms lawfully demanded by the Asiatic people."
Those killed were among tens of thousands of grouping who have taken to the streets of cities and agricultural areas crossways Syria occupation for semipolitical reform, demands which have hardened over past weeks.
ACTIVISTS DEMAND WIDER REFORMS
Friday's protests went aweigh despite Assad's decision this hebdomad to lift the country's hated crisis law, in locate since his Baath Party seized noesis 48 years ago.
A evidence by the Local Coordination Committees said the modify of crisis accumulation was useless without the promulgation of thousands of semipolitical prisoners -- most held without trial -- and the activity of the section apparatus.
In their prototypal joint evidence since the protests erupted terminal month, the activists said the success of the Baath Party's monopoly on noesis and the establishment of a egalitarian semipolitical grouping was bicentric to success repression in Syria.
Aided by his family and a general section apparatus, Assad, 45, has unconditional power, having unnoticed demands to transform the anachronistic autocratic grouping he inherited when he succeeded his New father, President Hafez al-Assad, in 2000.
Friday's hostility brings the modification sound to more than 300, according to rights activists, since the unrest which broke discover on March 18 in the gray municipality of Deraa.
Protests sweptwing the land on Friday, from the Mediterranean municipality of Banias to the orient cities of Deir al-Zor and Qamishli. In Damascus, section forces fired gas to separate 2,000 protesters in the district of Midan.
Amnesty International said Asiatic polity "have again responded to tranquil calls for modify with bullets and batons."
"They staleness directly prevent their attacks on tranquil protesters and instead earmark Syrians to foregather freely as planetary accumulation demands," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North continent director.
Syrian television said eight grouping were killed and 28 wounded, including grey personnel, in attacks by brachiate groups in Izra'a. It said an brachiate assemble had attacked a expeditionary base in the Damascus community of Muadhamiya.
(Additional news by Mariam Karouny in Beirut; redaction by Philippa Fletcher)
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