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Syria kills 2 protesters after funerals
Damascus crackdown on anti-Assad protesters remains relentless, as troops fire on funeral processions
Syrian forces opened fire at funerals for slain political protesters, a human rights activist said Sunday, leaving two more people dead as Syria tries to subdue weeks of demonstrations against President Bashar Assad.
Most of the Friday deaths occurred in Barzeh and al-Kaswa. Footage posted online by activists showed dozens of people in a Saturday funeral procession for three of the dead in al-Kaswa, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" or "God is great!" and "Bashar, get out!"
The two were killed Saturday in al-Kaswa, a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, the London-based director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Security forces opened fire when the funerals turned into protests, he said.
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Abdul-Rahman says one person was also killed Saturday in Damascus' Barzeh neighborhood and two were killed in the village of al-Quseir.
The opposition says some 1,400 people have been killed in recent months as the government has cracked down on the movement demanding an end to four decades of autocratic Assad family rule. Hundreds of Syrians, some with gunshot wounds, crossed into neighboring Lebanon late last week fleeing the crackdown.
The new arrivals joined thousands of other Syrians who fled to Lebanon in May and early June.
The military's recent sweep through northwestern Syria, where armed resistance flared in early June, also has sent more than 11,700 refugees fleeing across the border to refugee camps in Turkey.
Yet Britain's Sky News reported Sunday that some of the Syrians who escaped to Turkey have started the uncertain journey home.
Syrian government sources have claimed that around 750 refugees have arrived back in the flashpoint northern town of Jisr al Shughour.
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