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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 10:31 PM Sep 2013

Syrian Revolutionary Dabke



Uploaded on Jul 2, 2011

VIDEO DESCRIPTION:


Response from the streets of Hama to Bashar's speech, with additional music & translation added by the Creative Syrian Revolution.

The singer "Ibrahim Qashoush" was reported to be killed in Hama on 3 July 2011 by regime mercenaries, they cut his throat to try to stop his chant spreading.


Please spread this to prove them wrong and show their violence will never defeat us.


9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask


By Max Fisher, August 29, 2013



1. What is Syria?

Syria is a country in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It’s about the same size as Washington state with a population a little over three times as large – 22 million. Syria is very diverse, ethnically and religiously, but most Syrians are ethnic Arab and follow the Sunni branch of Islam. Civilization in Syria goes back thousands of years, but the country as it exists today is very young. Its borders were drawn by European colonial powers in the 1920s.

Syria is in the middle of an extremely violent civil war. Fighting between government forces and rebels has killed more 100,000 and created 2 million refugees, half of them children.

2. Why are people in Syria killing each other?

The killing started in April 2011, when peaceful protests inspired by earlier revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia rose up to challenge the dictatorship running the country. The government responded — there is no getting around this — like monsters. First, security forces quietly killed activists. Then they started kidnapping, raping, torturing and killing activists and their family members, including a lot of children, dumping their mutilated bodies by the sides of roads. Then troops began simply opening fire on protests. Eventually, civilians started shooting back.

Fighting escalated from there until it was a civil war. Armed civilians organized into rebel groups. The army deployed across the country, shelling and bombing whole neighborhoods and towns, trying to terrorize people into submission. They’ve also allegedly used chemical weapons, which is a big deal for reasons I’ll address below. Volunteers from other countries joined the rebels, either because they wanted freedom and democracy for Syria or, more likely, because they are jihadists who hate Syria’s secular government. The rebels were gaining ground for a while and now it looks like Assad is coming back. There is no end in sight...

More at the link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/29/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/

Please read about the Chemical Weapons Convention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention

It is mentioned often as it has been signed onto by 189 nations, including Russia and the USA. But Syria is not one of them.

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Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
1. A peaceful request to transition from a dictatorship to a democracy was hijacked,...
Wed Sep 4, 2013, 11:01 PM
Sep 2013

....by Religious conservatives who took a progressive effort to bring the Arab World into the 21st Century and try to twist it into a battle between Sunnis and Shiites (or Arabs and Persians).

 

Sand Wind

(1,573 posts)
2. In fact, the Assad regime, since the father, and like every Baatist regime that is the
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:34 AM
Sep 2013

Power of a little minority, can only survive by dividing the society. To make sure that his alawite base will follow, he pay some of them to make some massacre against civil, and then the religious aspect of the revolution start.

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