Syrian eyewitness: " Police had orders to keep shooting until the last bullet."

Jisr al-Shughour is a ghost town today. Nobody's around because people are afraid the army will invade the city again. We had the biggest demonstration here on Friday since the start of the problems in Syria. It was peaceful at first, but in the evening groups of armed government men arrived and the shooting started.

The next morning there was a funeral for some of the protesters who were killed. Security forces opened fire on the procession and at least nine people were killed. Then, over the weekend, 12 buses and seven army tanks came.

When they approached the villages near Jisr al-Shughour, people formed human shields to prevent them from entering. A soldier, who later defected, told me that his commanding officer had said they were entering the village to confront armed gangs. But when they arrived, the soldiers were given orders to shoot at the peaceful demonstrators. That was when the defections happened. More...

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