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The exodus to the nearby Turkey of Syrians fleeing the repression of demonstrations for democracy in their country has accelerated to reach the number of 4,000.

Syrian officials and human rights defenders added Saturday that more than 10,000 people are trying to find shelter near the border.

The displaced, fearing reprisals on the part of the security forces for the clashes in which 120 soldiers have been killed this week, have left the city of Djisr al Choughour, in the North, before a raid by army launched Friday.

"When the massacres began to Djisr al Choughour, the army is divided and they began to fight among themselves or to accuse us of being responsible for", told a woman interviewed by Turkish television.

"Tanks are now at one kilometer from Djisr al Choughour, near a sugar mill and they bombard the city." "There are more than a few people over there", said a man.

He added that the soldiers were burned wheat harvests of three neighbouring villages while another refugee speak of massacres of the cattle, cows and sheep, around the village of Sarmanïa.

According to a senior Turkish diplomat, 4.300 Syrians have already crossed the border and his country expected new arrived, without being able to give predictable figures.

"The Turkey has, in the past, allowed a large number of foreigners in great difficulty and we can again", told the Anatolia News Agency a top official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Halit Cevik. In the border province of Hatay, witnesses reported that a field hospital was being installed in one of the refugee camps.

For its part, the Radikal daily announces that the Turkish authorities will install a buffer when the flood of refugees will exceed the 10,000.

BUFFER ZONE

The other coast of the border in Syrian territory, thousands of other displaced are Cliffhanger, according to the testimony of an activist of the human rights involved in the coordination of population movements.

"The border area has almost become a buffer zone", says the man, in the name of Abu Fadi. "Families shelter under trees and there are now between 7,000 and 10,000 people."

Thursday, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reaffirmed that his country would keep its doors open to Syrians, accused the regime of Bashar al Assad take "too lightly" the problems of refugees and criticized its "inhuman" response to the popular revolt.

Human rights defenders were encrypted to 36 the number of protesters shot dead Friday by the forces of order throughout the country.

They say that the authorities have, for the first time, intervene of helicopter gunships against crowd at Maarat al Noumaan, in the centre of the country, to shoot the demonstrators. The uprising for political democracy in Syria has made more than 1,100 victims since mid-March. The Government of President Bashar al Assad, in power since 2000, denies responsibility for the unrest on "terrorists".

Permanent representatives to the Security Council met again Friday at the headquarters of the world Organization in New York to try to find a compromise on a text to be adopted on the Syria.

A draft resolution proposed by the France, the Portugal, Great Britain, and the Germany condemned the Damascus regime and does not exclude that Syrian security forces be made guilty of crimes against humanity, but the Russia has been suggested that it was ready to oppose its veto.