AMMAN - Tens of thousands of chantingSyrians demanded the "overthrow of the regime" on Saturday atfunerals for scores of people killed by security forces in the
country's bloodiest pro-democracy protests, witnesses said.Funerals were held in Damascus and at least one of itssuburbs and in the southern village of Izra'a, where mournersalso chanted "Bashar al-Assad, you traitor. Long live Syria,
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Ahead of the funerals, a Syrian human rights campaigner warned "The funerals will turn into vehement protests, like past funerals.""When you have security services who are thugs it is difficult to think that they will not shoot at the crowds. Another cycle of funerals and demonstrations is likely to follow," the rights campaigner said from the Syrian capital.