2. November 2011 1 out of 3. Regierungsfeindliche demonstrators at the funeral of Sunni Moslem villagers killed, participate on Wednesday, in Hula in the vicinity of Hims.
Credit: Reuters/handoutBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Mariam Karouny
AMMAN/BEIRUT | Wed, November 3, 2011 6: 03 pm EDT
Dozens died AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - in the Syrian city of Hims on Thursday, after reports of sectarian murders said activists, in an outburst of violence, this week, which threaten to ignite unrest between Sunni majority and the minority of Nusairier sect.
Tanks hit a major residential area in Homs for the second day, and there was no sign of troops leave cities under an Arab League agreement on bloodshed after seven months of protests against President Bashar al-Assad, whose Nusairier sect makes dominated.
A witness called rejected, said that he saw dozens of civilian facilities at the national hospital, which is under control of the security forces. The circumstances of her death were not clear.
"they were all men with gunshot wounds." A doctor told me that they came from all over Hims, ", he said."
Activists said another 19 people were killed, tank a bombardment of the District of Bab AMRO, hotbed of pro-democracy protests against President Bashar al-Assad and recordings by security forces in Homs.
There was no independent confirmation of the killings. They follow reports of local activists, the forces which held-loyal to Assad dead at least 11 Sunni Muslims to villagers at a roadblock province of Homs on Wednesday she is.
Nine Alawites have been pulled from a bus and killed the day before near the town of another activist said.
Harte Syrian media restrictions have made it hard to review the events on the ground, since a revolt against Assad began in March, inspired by other revolts in the Arab world.
Syria has killed more than 3,000 people, a plan of the Arab League decided army of towns, free political prisoners and talks with the opposition on Wednesday under pressure, a RAID set that says the United Nations.
The authorities blame the violence Islamic militants and armed gangs, they say, 1,100 soldiers and policemen have killed.
ISOLATION FEAR
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby informed the members of the main opposition party National Council on the plan in Cairo.
"We do not speak with the Secretary General a dialogue with the regime" Council Member Samir Nashar by Egypt's MENA News Agency was quoted after the meeting.
"We discussed, moved in negotiations with the authorities of a totalitarian to a democratic system, and demanded, that President Assad makes can be."
Assad's critics have his past, the offers of dialogue, some words you first must stop bloodshed dismissed and others say that only his resignation can end the conflict.
Paris Burhan Ghalioun, a leading member of the National Council, doubted that Syria the plan would be.
"The regime has accepted the Arab initiative for fear of Arab isolation, his weakness and lack of options." He wrote "But the adoption not means that it respect its clauses".
In Syria, some demonstrators Arab League, which said the initiative, but residents and activists remained in cities and security operations on celebrated especially in Homs troops.
Tanks fired heavy machine guns and flak Bab AMRO district of the city, a hotbed of protests and scene operations by the military against insurgents hiding there.
In other districts shot a city with one million, army, the sniper of roofs and soldiers Homs fired from checkpoints.
"We slept late there was night road rallies, to celebrate the Arab initiative." This morning we woke up rain and peel "Samer, an activist in Bab AMRO, said by phone."
EXPLOSIONS ROCK CITY
Another said the sound of the explosions was rocking the city and activists called on people in and around the Centre of Homs donations of blood for provisional hospitals.
Activists and residents army posted reinforcements at roadblocks in cities in the southern Hauran plain, where the troops in the air to disperse overnight triggered protests.
Early in the morning, an armored column fired machine guns in the air after al-Madiq Castle near the Roman ruins of Apamea has seen in the Ghab plain, the protests and has established itself as a refuge for army deserters, local activists.
In Damascus suburb of Harasta at least 120 demonstrators were arrested overnight after the celebration of the Arab League offer, a resident said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday that it was Syria for better access to thousands of prisoners in pro-democracy protests arrested press.
Western sanctions and growing criticism from Turkey and Arab neighbors raised have pressure on Syria to stop the bloodshed.
"We are pleased, this agreement have and we will be even happier if she immediately implemented", said Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani of Qatar, leads a Committee of the Arab League behind schedule in Cairo agreed.
China, which has resisted sanctions against Syria along with Russia, u.n., welcomed the plan of the Arab League.
"This is an important step to the relaxation of the situation in Syria and the early start a political process with broad participation of all parties in Syria believe", said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei.
Despite the latest violence, Sami Baroudi, a political analyst at the Lebanese American University of Beirut, said it was too early to judge whether Syria would honor the agreement.
"It will take at least a few days to see if the intensity of violence is below or above going or staying at the same level", said Baroudi. "I would have not this initiative to the trash, because nothing happened immediately."
After the deal in Cairo was announced, the Syrian President to end again its call for the United States.
The Arab League has not exposed to Syria's membership or support international intervention, as it was overthrown against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, the rebels supported by NATO.
(Additional reporting by Erika Solomon in Beirut;) (Edit by Sophie hares)
