Syrian Revolution

Syrian Revolution

Introduction

The revolution in Syria has gone through many different stages and in the process, has experienced many flows and ebbs, has reached new levels of the masses while others from the masses have become inactive or have suffered very atrocious repression. But the youth and the oppressed people of Syria are firm on their decision to take the revolution till the end, whether it be their victory or their martyrdom. The rebel and the revolution have spread like wild fire and the efforts of the crumbling government to put down this fire have not managed to get any permanent relief. Because the majority of the people have now awakened from their sleep and a new nation has now come to life, baptized in fire and blood. (Zissar, 2001)

July 22. Photo: syriana2011

Discussion

Syrian Rising Generation Movement

It had been 40 years that the people of Syria were living under the shadows of terror, fear, repression and oppression, so nothing could stop the people of Syria from putting their feet down and going out in the streets to search for a peaceful change, shouting and chanting, '' we want our freedom''. This was how the people of Syria started the revolution for their rights. The revolutions and uprisings against the domineering governments in Tunisia and Egypt stirred and encouraged the Arabs as well and started the so called ''Arab Spring''. In Syria, the ruling party, which is the “Ba'ath Party”, has been in the rule since the year 1963 and it was slowly but surely increasing its command over the people of Syria. Bashar Assad and other members of his family have been ruling the country of Syria since the year 1970 with an iron fist. Hafez Assad, the father of Bashar Assad, and his brother Rifa'at Assad killed around tens of thousands of people and detained more than twenty thousand people in Tadmur (Palmyra) Jail which is a jail that is situated right in the middle of the desert. After that, more and more suppression has been used to rule the people of the country. The people have been deprived of their right to freedom of speech, which means that the people were not allowed to state their opinions and their views regarding their criticizing of the actions of the government. In addition to that, social websites such as YouTube, Face book, Wikipedia and many such sites had been blocked for so many years under the law of the emergency state. The state of emergency was announced by the Ba'ath party in the year 1963 and since then, this state of emergency has been used as a tool to confine and control anyone that the regime thought as threat to the government for an indefinite amount of time without bringing any charge. (Business Recorder 1 Aug. 2011)

Although this state of emergency officially came to an end in April 2011, the government has started detaining and killing more and more protesters. On 11th March 2011, many of the people of Syria took to streets ...