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<blockquote data-quote="LoveBeingAMuslimah" data-source="post: 70996269" data-attributes="member: 323708"><p><span style="color: #808080"><span style="color: #000000">6 year anniversary of the start of the revolution today. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><span style="color: #000000">3 different Syrians on refusing Assad's regime: </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><strong>We thought if we protested, and after the regime had reacted in such a violent way, that the UN and everyone would say <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/people/bashar-al-assad.html" target="_blank">Assad</a> was a criminal. But we were shocked … no one cared.</strong> The English language <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/syria.html" target="_blank">media</a> kept talking about "sectarian strife", but we had no idea what they were talking about.</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080">[...]</span></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080">When you look at things in a rational way, I don't know how you can be hopeful about the future of Syria. But I look at the Palestinian people as an inspiration - they still resist, they focus on <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/education.html" target="_blank">education</a>. They do not give up.</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080">--</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080">But initially we really felt that our revolution would soon reach victory, maybe in days, or weeks, or months. We were only seeking our freedom, our dignity and our rights. <strong>We were expecting that the world - that the <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html" target="_blank">US</a>, EU and other countries - would help us end Assad's rule. But unfortunately, the opposite happened.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080">I started to lose hope when the regime began killing peaceful protesters, and the whole world kept watching. And I completely lost all hope when the regime<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/un-confirms-multiple-syria-chemical-attacks-2013121314217382141.html" target="_blank"> used chemical weapons </a>in Ghouta in 2013, killing thousands.</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"><strong>The whole world just kept silent and just took the chemical weapons and didn't even punish the regime</strong>. Like when you arrest a criminal who has killed someone, and you take his gun and then just let him free to kill someone else with a different gun. At that time, <strong>I totally lost any hope that help would come to us from outside</strong>. I remained in <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/city/aleppo.html" target="_blank">Aleppo</a> until the regime retook the whole city in late 2016.</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080">It's really hard to describe the feeling of being<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/residents-east-aleppo-anxiously-await-evacuation-161214033846622.html" target="_blank"> forced to leave</a>. I really felt like I was losing my soul. I felt like the whole world was against me and my revolution. I felt broken, like I was losing myself. I was totally broken.</span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080">If you look at what is happening on the ground, the regime and its allied militias are advancing. But for some reason, I still think that, eventually, the revolution will be victorious. I don't really know why I think that. Perhaps it's because it is the right thing. Or maybe it has something to do with my faith.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080"></span></strong></p><p><span style="color: #808080">--</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080">[...] And then the stark reality began to sink in as we realised that Assad supporters truly meant it when they said, "Either Assad or we burn the country." [...]</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080">I, and many other like-minded Syrians, are<strong> stunned by the international community's utter paralysis in the face of Assad's genocidal regime.</strong> I have no idea how far the regime and its backers will go to wipe out every single person who opposed Assad. <strong>But having said "no" to Assad, having broken that wall of fear, having seen my fellow Syrians suffer the greatest<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35489063" target="_blank"> humanitarian disaster </a>since World War II, I do know one thing: we will not go away.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080"></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: #808080">The dream of freedom is too powerful, even for barrel bombs, chemical weapons, and rampant torture to break. You see, with more than half of Syria's population displaced or refugees, new generations of free Syrians are beginning to take the lead in the opposition, and they will never forget.</span></strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/years-price-assad-170314064050879.html" target="_blank">Six years on: The price of saying 'no' to Assad</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoveBeingAMuslimah, post: 70996269, member: 323708"] [COLOR=#808080][COLOR=#000000]6 year anniversary of the start of the revolution today. [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#808080][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#808080][COLOR=#000000]3 different Syrians on refusing Assad's regime: [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=#808080] [B]We thought if we protested, and after the regime had reacted in such a violent way, that the UN and everyone would say [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/people/bashar-al-assad.html']Assad[/URL] was a criminal. But we were shocked … no one cared.[/B] The English language [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/syria.html']media[/URL] kept talking about "sectarian strife", but we had no idea what they were talking about. [...][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#808080]When you look at things in a rational way, I don't know how you can be hopeful about the future of Syria. But I look at the Palestinian people as an inspiration - they still resist, they focus on [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/issues/education.html']education[/URL]. They do not give up.[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#808080] -- But initially we really felt that our revolution would soon reach victory, maybe in days, or weeks, or months. We were only seeking our freedom, our dignity and our rights. [B]We were expecting that the world - that the [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/country/united-states.html']US[/URL], EU and other countries - would help us end Assad's rule. But unfortunately, the opposite happened.[/B] [/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#808080]I started to lose hope when the regime began killing peaceful protesters, and the whole world kept watching. And I completely lost all hope when the regime[URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/12/un-confirms-multiple-syria-chemical-attacks-2013121314217382141.html'] used chemical weapons [/URL]in Ghouta in 2013, killing thousands.[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#808080] [B]The whole world just kept silent and just took the chemical weapons and didn't even punish the regime[/B]. Like when you arrest a criminal who has killed someone, and you take his gun and then just let him free to kill someone else with a different gun. At that time, [B]I totally lost any hope that help would come to us from outside[/B]. I remained in [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/city/aleppo.html']Aleppo[/URL] until the regime retook the whole city in late 2016. [/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#808080]It's really hard to describe the feeling of being[URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/residents-east-aleppo-anxiously-await-evacuation-161214033846622.html'] forced to leave[/URL]. I really felt like I was losing my soul. I felt like the whole world was against me and my revolution. I felt broken, like I was losing myself. I was totally broken.[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#808080][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#808080]If you look at what is happening on the ground, the regime and its allied militias are advancing. But for some reason, I still think that, eventually, the revolution will be victorious. I don't really know why I think that. Perhaps it's because it is the right thing. Or maybe it has something to do with my faith. [/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#808080]-- [...] And then the stark reality began to sink in as we realised that Assad supporters truly meant it when they said, "Either Assad or we burn the country." [...] I, and many other like-minded Syrians, are[B] stunned by the international community's utter paralysis in the face of Assad's genocidal regime.[/B] I have no idea how far the regime and its backers will go to wipe out every single person who opposed Assad. [B]But having said "no" to Assad, having broken that wall of fear, having seen my fellow Syrians suffer the greatest[URL='http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35489063'] humanitarian disaster [/URL]since World War II, I do know one thing: we will not go away.[/B] [/COLOR] [B][COLOR=#808080]The dream of freedom is too powerful, even for barrel bombs, chemical weapons, and rampant torture to break. You see, with more than half of Syria's population displaced or refugees, new generations of free Syrians are beginning to take the lead in the opposition, and they will never forget.[/COLOR][/B] [URL='http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/years-price-assad-170314064050879.html']Six years on: The price of saying 'no' to Assad[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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