Syrians demonstrate after Friday prayers in Latakia The sacking of Homs Mayor and the granting of citizenship to more than 250,000 Kurds in the northeast of Syria did not help quell protests that have been rocking the country since March 10 At least 24 people were reported late Friday night to have been killed Friday, according to sources from the southern troubled cities of Daraa and Homs. There are no figures about the death toll in other cities some of which saw protests for the first time.
In Daraa, which has lost around 100 people in the past four weeks, protesters knocked down a statue of Basil Al Assad and drove security forces out of the city. A Baath party office was set ablaze.
Footage posted on YouTube, showed people on the floor of Al Omari Mosque undergoing treatment. Two of them were pronounced dead. Witnesses said the number of people killed in the clashes was 13.
The footage showed a 12-year-old child bleeding from injuries, with one adult shouting: ‘Could this young child be dangerous to the regime to be shot down with live bullets?' Another man was crying and saying the last prayers before he died. What is different about the ‘Friday of Resistance' being tagged by the Syrian Revolution 2011 page on Facebook is the spread of protests to villages and cities.
In the nearby Jasem village, thousands gathered in the main square calling for regime change.