AMMAN (Reuters) – Protesters in the southern city of Deraa on Friday set fire to a Baath Party outpost and smashed a stone statue of Basil al-Assad, President Bashar al-Assad’s late brother, witnesses said.
“The statue of Basil al-Assad is just a pile of stones,” one of the witnesses told Reuters by telephone from Deraa. “The protesters also set fire to a Baath Party outpost in the el-Mahatta area,” he added.
Unprecedented unrest over decades of autocratic Baath Party rule has rocked Syria for more than two weeks, emboldened by pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world.
(Reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi; editing by Mark Heinrich)
Syria protesters torch party outpost, smash statue
