Dominic Evans
BEIRUT | Thu 15 December 2011 5: 30 pm EST
BEIRUT (Reuters) - army deserters 27 soldiers killed in the southern Syria on Thursday, said an active group in some of the deadliest attacks on forces President Bashar al-Assad since the start of an uprising loyal nine months ago.
The Syrian Observatory for human rights, Deraa, said the clashes flared that where first broke protests against Assad in March, and at a checkpoint East of the city, where all 15 people crew there were killed.
Coordinated strikes by the army, rebels escalated attacks recently have suggested to the high losses among security forces increase the specter of civil war breaks out.
The United Nations says that in Assad's crackdown on protests uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world inspired killed 5,000 people. Assad denied all orders were issued to kill protesters and says that armed 1,100 of his troops have killed.
A report by human rights watch which often explicit statements published on Thursday, is based on interviews with dozens of defectors army said commanders ordered troops to use "all necessary means" to stop protests, to to open fire.
A special forces soldier said that his team was told "use as many balls as you want" on demonstrators in Deraa in April.
A sniper in the city of Hims, that ordered his commanders said, in that a certain percentage of protesters should die. "Such as the goal for 5,000 demonstrators, would be 15 to 20 people," he said human rights watch (HRW).
HRW identified 74 commanders had ordered, authorized or condoned murder, torture and unlawful arrests during the anti-Government protests. "Represent these abuses crimes against humanity,", it said to call on the Security Council of the United Nations, Syria at the International Criminal Court.
Assad, 46, whose family from the minority Alawite Sunni Muslim Syria sect, the energy within majority has been for four decades, is the most serious challenge of his 11-year rule.
Army rebels have their campaign against security forces in the last month, increasingly ambushing military convoys, fire on an Intelligence Center on the outskirts of Damascus, and killing six pilots on an air base open.
PROMPTED FOREIGNERS
Turkey lost its first citizens Syrian riots on Thursday, according to its state news agency. Munir dural shot said Turkish media, it dead in the vicinity of the town of Idlib caught in the crossfire was stolen after his car.
Canada called to leave his Syria of concern for the deteriorating security situation. "Our best advice is immediately, Syria left, by all available means and opportunities exist," said his Foreign Ministry in a statement.
He cited provide the new Arab League sanctions against Syria to leave the country quickly can make difficult.
The UN Security to cope with the increasing number who claimed lives have the United States and France, to blame the Assad's forces for the violence. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, "that can go on," told reporters in New York. "In the name of humanity, it is to be time for the international community."
Syria's foreign donor Russia and China, that condemnation of Damascus blocked Western efforts to Council.
But Russia offered Thursday, said they were willing to negotiate about it for the first time a new, strengthening motion for a resolution to the Council and Western countries. [ID: nN1E7BE0G9]
Although Western envoys said, the Russian text was too weak, offered their willingness to work on it a chance for the Security Council to overcome its deadlock and issue of the 15-nation Panel first resolution of Syria's crackdown against the opposition protesters.
The design of Russia into circulation brought unexpectedly expands and hardens Moscow's previous text to add a new reference to "disproportionate use of force by the Syrian authorities."
The draft, which calls by Reuters, "the Syrian Government to suppress the exercise of their rights to freedom of expression, freedom of Assembly and Association put an end."
FEARS OF WAR
The bloodshed prompted the head of the main Syrian opposition group call, on the rebel forces free Syrian army operations against Assad's military limit to defend you on protests. "We want to avoid civil war at all costs," said Burhan Ghalioun of Syrian Reuters last week.
But its impact on the insurgency seems limited.
A free Syrian officer, speech to Thursday clashes, said that rebels in the alignment of Assad's forces were justified and said Ghalioun comments reveal "a lack of knowledge about the military base of this regime".
"Who bears arms against the civilian population, army, security or Shabbiha (Pro-Assad militia), and kills civilians - we respond and what harm we can," major Maher Ismail al-Naimi said.
A former Ambassador turned dissident announced in Istanbul the formation of an opposition group called the National Alliance of revolutionary forces in Syria.
Mohammad Bassam Imadi, Syria's former commissioned Sweden resigned his post two years ago and left Syria earlier this month, said that the Group of the Syrian National Council in a bid to overthrow of the Government would work together.
"We make up the majority of the revolutionary and political groups in Syria." After a long time and much effort, all these groups bring together under one roof is managed, "Imadi told a press conference."
Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Imadi was released and had his assets frozen last year after he was investigated for fraud and "His authority use for material gain".
Activists said that Assad's forces on Thursday, the streets of Damascus suburbs hunt for defector combed and try, the opposition would"strike".
In the city of Hama said 24 hours earlier stormed through the army the army took over a children's Hospital and snipers be viewed above on government buildings.
The official news agency SANA, said a member of "terrorist group" was killed and three others wounded, when they placed bombs in a Villa, which province had robbed them in Damascus.
(Additional reporting by Daren Butler in Istanbul;) (Editing by Diana Abdallah)
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