Original sentence: From 8 April in Daraa, from 15 April also in other towns, when over 130 people nationwide had been killed in crackdowns of the protests, and students, liberal activists and human rights advocates were being arrested
Edited sentence: From 8 April in Daraa, from 15 April also in other towns, when over 130 people nationwide had been killed in bloody crackdowns of the protests, and students, liberal activists and human rights advocates were being arrested by numbers, gradually the call for President Bashar al-Assad to resign grew louder