AMMAN: Protests erupted across Syria against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, sources said 22 people were expired in the southern city of Dera, the birthplace of the agitation.
In the east, thousands of Kurds have demonstrated for the reform, despite the president's offer this week to ease rules that prohibit many Kurds of citizenship militants.
The protests have swept the country of 20 million people, from the Mediterranean port of Latakia in Albu Kamal on the Iraqi border, that the protests entered a fourth week, despite the security crackdown Assad and the growing list of promises reform.
"Freedom, freedom, we want freedom", thousands of demonstrators chanted in many Syrian cities. Some shouted: "We sacrifice our blood and soul for you, Deraa."
Residents said security forces used water cannons and smoke bombs to disperse 2,000 protesters in Hama, where thousands of people were expired in 1982 when Assad's father Hafez al-Assad crushed an armed uprising by the Brotherhood Muslims.
In Deraa, where the first protests erupted in March, residents, security forces fired on thousands of protesters who set fire to a building belonging to the Baath Party to power and broke the statue's brother President, Basil.
A hospital volunteer and an activist Deraa said 22 people were expired and 120 wounded. It took the death toll in three weeks of demonstrations over 90.
State television said the armed groups expired 19 policemen and wounded 75 in Deraa. The authorities have accused armed groups violence and broadcast images of public television on Friday of the plain clothed gunmen fired on said security forces and civilians.
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