Amman – Syrian security forces opened fire on protesters at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, and an announcement that President Bashar al-Assad would lift 48 years of emergency rule failed to quell fury on the streets. Two witnesses said security forces killed three mourners when they opened fire on a funeral for a man killed the day before, which turned into a demonstration on a highway outside the town of Talbiseh, north of the central city of Homs. One resident said he counted five tanks and saw soldiers wearing combat gear deployed around the town. Chants at protests on Sunday, Syria’s Independence Day holiday, more hostile towards Assad than at previous marches held in recent weeks,…
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