Syria: Protesters do not yield, despite the 8,000 detainees and missing

"The regime is losing ground (...), because despite the harassment and brutality suffered by civilians in various towns and the detention of hundreds of people, the demonstrations grow day by day," declared the opposition activists .

The protest movement against the government shows no signs of cooling in Syria, where militants have announced that "the revolution and demonstrations" will continue in spite of some 8,000 detainees and missing people "in the midst of violent repression, according to an advocacy organization of human rights.
About 150 students held on Wednesday for a vigil of solidarity Deraa, according to a human rights activist.
The vigil did not last long, however, because the students were dispersed just dispersed by the security services.
"We will continue our revolution and our peaceful demonstrations until we get freedom," he said on Tuesday the steering committees of the demonstrations in several cities, including Banias, Homs and Deraa - the latter, the epicenter of the protest movement and there is a besieged week.
Upon receiving personalities of the towns of Deir Ezor, Al Bukamal, Al and Al Bukamal Mayadin, President Bashar Al-Assad, in turn, said the "Army units that came into Deraa on April 25 will end their mission very soon ", quoted by the newspaper Al Watan, close to power.
"Every country in the world can live events such as occurred in Deraa," he added.
The United States denounced on Tuesday the use of tanks and a "widespread campaign of arbitrary arrests directed against young Deraa. These measures are "similar to collective punishment against innocent civilians," said Mark Toner, spokesman for the Department of State.
The opposition activists have condemned the crackdown and the recent mass arrests, indicating a disclosed is that at least 500 people have been arrested a day on average.
The number of people "missing or detained may exceed 8,000," he said Wissam Tarif, CEO of the organization of human rights Insan.
According Tarif, the Insan was able to confirm so far the arrest of 2,843 people, 891 of them in Deraa area, at 103 and 108 in Zabadani Madaya (both north of Damascus), 384 in the capital region, and around 636 in Homs, 317 on latkes, and 37 267 in Jableh in Tartus, the latter three located on the Mediterranean coast.
Tarif said that 5,157 other names are being recorded, 4,038 of them in Deraa.