BEIRUT -
Activists say dozens of students have demonstrated near the capital Damascus calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad's regime on the first day of school in Syria.
The Local Coordination Committees network says elementary students in the Damascus suburb of Kisweh chanted: "There will be no classes until the president is brought down."
The activist network also says that security forces fired into the air on Sunday, forcing students of another school in the area to disperse. LCC did not report any casualties.
The Syrian uprising began in mid-March, amid a wave of protests in the Arab world that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
Assad has reacted with deadly force that the UN estimates has killed some 2,600 people.
