23 May 2011

No stopping us until freedom




Yesterday was a day of funerals; a day for mourning the new martyrs. Friday, Azadi Friday, was a day of national unrest, of rising feeling among the people, of all of us, of Arabs and Kurds, Christians and Muslims, standing together and calling for freedom.
And a day of the regime using brutality to stomp on us. Friday looked like this:


Hardly the work of a Salafi minority, of bandits or of infiltrators!

And when we mourned our dead, they tried the only language that they know, of force and blood … and more died as martyrs for our freedom. But we will not stop until freedom. Last night:


We cannot stop now; freedom is coming … and the regime is creaking. Rumors fly and challenge their tales. Everyone seems to have heard about the martyrs of the Fourth Division, 700 or more Syrian uniformed soldiers killed by the regime for the crime of refusing to kill their brothers and sisters. They are supposed to be buried in mass graves. No one knows if it is true or just exaggerated but the point when the uprising becomes a civil war grows closer. How many of the dead police and military were killed by Party stalwarts? No one knows.

Or if they do, they refuse to say.

The day is coming … and when it comes, we will win.

The future belongs to US

3 comments:

Gabriel said...

The question is, whether the Syrians left after Assad falls will be able to run a healthy country, given all the years they've been lied to.
Let's face it, the Syrians have very poor understanding of the outside world due to all the propaganda they been fed. Many consider Europe an adversary, the US an enemy, want to retrieve the Golan - and war is often brought up as a possible way to do so.
We can see it happen in Egypt, when only last week a church has been burned, and many killed.
You can already see now how Egyptian politicians call for war against Israel, using the same old trick of gathering the masses' support by inventing a common enemy.

Democracy is not a simple thing, nor is free press and human rights. For decades the Syrians didn't have to deal with the real meaning behind these words, and it's quite likely they'll simply replicate the same patterns they're used to.

gashrash said...

Some of the comments here seem to be written by Netanyahu & his US mates. They are patronising and almost comical. Their agenda is certainly not pro Syrian - more like "what can we get from this situation."

Gabriel said...

Taking Syria out of it's third world country status is no joking matter gashrash. Like everyone else, I would like to see it prosper, but given the years of living in a dictatorship, one has to wonder the affect it had on the people.

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