Female Syrian Refugees in Jordan: We were Forced to Watch the Rape of our Daughters

Amman – Tamer Al Smadi

 Monday June 4th, 2012

Amal (40 years old) and her daughter found safe passage to Jordan from the area of Bab Amr ( باب عمرو ) in the Syrian city of Homs, fleeing the killing spree that according to her took the lives of three of her daughters at the hands of the Security Forces and those who are known as the Shabiha .

«Youth / Shabab» supplement observed tales, shrouded in the heavy dark Damascene night, of Syrian women raped and murdered, to convey to you their and their families’ ‘rare’ testimonies.

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The Kurdish Question in Syria: A General Approach

Badrakhan Ali

28 May 2012

[The following article was translated into English by Christine Cuk.]

Kurdish inhabited area of Syria. Image from Wikimedia Commons

The Kurdish issue in Syria has a history and trajectory that are different from sectarian problems in the region. It is not a sectarian problem, as the Kurds are not a sect of Arabs or a special Islamic group. They belong to a people that are forty million strong and are distributed over a number of countries, and they are the largest national group in both the region and the world that is deprived of a political counterpart to its existence: an independent state. The aspects of the region’s Kurdish question differ from the revival of sectarian problems in Arab-Islamic society.

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Abdulrazzak Tlass to «Al Hayat»: My ambition is to be in the Army of Democratic Syria

Malek Daghestani

Friday 1st June 2012

He was serving in the area of Al-Sanamin when the Syrian revolution broke out. When First Lieutenant Abdulrazzak Tlass heard for the first time the voices of the demonstrators from his residence, he found himself without much thought, driving his car to the scene of the demonstration, wandering around the demonstrators, looking in astonishment and admiration at the courage of these young Syrians. At that moment, he realized that these young men have crossed the fear barrier that the regime has imprisoned the Syrians behind for so long, which he also recognized from within the Military establishment to which he belongs.

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Faces from the Syrian Revolution: Mhyd Mohammad al Zhwry

Mhyd Mohammad al Zhwry

An Artist and Calligrapher from Qosair

Mhyd is a Syrian fine artist from Qosair in the Homs countryside who loved the plastic arts and oil painting. With the advent of the Syrian revolution he turned to painting the banners for the demonstrations.

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Like” for Freedom“

Ziad Majed

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Perhaps the best invention to come out of Facebook is the clicking on “like” to express admiration, appreciation, love, compassion, and acknowledgement or to show courtesy or all these combined. This small link, the “like”, can be used for a “page”, a person, a cause, a book or an event as well as when coming across a photo or following reading a comment or post, or even a comment on a comment or a post. It becomes addictive after getting used to it as one feels an urgent desire to have such a tool in hand, clicking it in secret and suddenly bringing it out if he/she likes something or someone or a voice or a speech or any scene whether he/she is walking down the street, at home, university, a café or any other place. Furthermore, one can imagine a society armed with the “like” links which can be clicked left, right and centre, and released in celebrations which convey “on the ground” a communal sense of unity in emotions and excitation.

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He Who Justifies the Murder of a People is Killing the Human within Himself

Arab Intellect Azmi Bishara

1 May 2012

When a regime sends in tanks to shell its own people in their cities and residential neighbourhoods, the natural ‘instinct’ reaction expected from any ethical person is to stand with the people against the regime. In such a person’s opinion, the regime, whether it was democratic or not, becomes illegitimate if it finds it necessary to kill, repress, and torture people en mass in order to stay in power because the people no longer accept it or can no longer tolerate living under its rule.

There is a moral defect in a person that finds himself justifying killing as a mean to respond to a conspiracy or for the sake of a noble goal the regime is claiming to be working for forgetting the pain of an entire nation in the process. Such a person will lose his humanity and defame himself while he is ranting about conspiracies.

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A e-Demonstration and a Call for a National Day of Mourning for the Victims of the Hawla Massacres

مظـــــــــــــــــــــــــاهــــــــــــــــــــــرة الكتـــــــــــرونيــــــــــــــــــــــــة نصــــــــــــرة لشهـــــــــــداء الحولــــــــة ::

على كل الصامتين وكل الموالين وكل من يسكت عن النظام أن يتجه إلى الحولة ويخبرنا أنه لا يوجد في سورية مجازر .. ولا يوجد جرائم ضد الشعب السوري ..!!

غداً يوم حداد على أطفالٍ ذبحوا بالسكاكين ..

غداً يوم دعاء ليحفظ الله بقية أطفالنا ..

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Tomorrow is a national mourning day for those kids who were slaughtered with knives by the Syrian regime gangs

All regime supporters and all those who are till silent about its actions must head straight ahead to Hawla in Homs… to tell us that nothing wrong is actually happening there, and that there are no crimes committed against the Syrian people!!

Tomorrow we will all pray God to protect the rest of our country’s children

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il faut à toutes les pros Bachar et les silencieux et toutes qu’ils disent que “il n ‘y a pas des massacres en Syrie, et il n’ ya pas des crimes contre le peuple syrien” d’aller tout de suite à la ville de Haoula

demain, un jour de deuil pour des enfants qui ont été abattu à coups de couteau

c’est un jour de prier pour que Dieu protège nos enfants…

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Alle Schweigende und Pro Assad Regime sollen jetzt zu Alhawla fahren um uns zu überreden ,dass es keine Massaker in Syrien gibt und dass es keine Morde gegen das Syrischen Volk gibt !!!

Morgen ist ein Tag der Trauer für die Kinder die mit Messern geschlachtet worden.

Morgen ist ein Tag ,in dem wir Alle dafür Beten , dass Allah den Rest unserer Kinder schüzt.

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butun susanlara ve butun hukumet yanililarina ve hukumet icin susuanlar hovleye gidip katliyam olmadigini ve suriye halkinin katledilmedigini bize soylesin……!

yarin hovlede bicakla katledilen cocuklar icin yas ilan ediyoruz yarin allahin geri kalan cocuklari korumasi icin dua gunu ilan ediyoruz

HOMS

Testimony of Activist Hadi Abdulla on Al Jazeera, speaking about the massacres committed by the Syrian Regime against civilians on 25 May 2012.

Three massacres were committed in Hawla City, and more are being committed now 76 martyrs are confirmed in Hawla alone, and more than 300 wounded.
Hawla city has been under shelling for more than 12 hours.

Shooting started at a demonstration with bullets and artillery, and the shelling has not stopped for more than 12 hours.
Hundreds of missiles hit the civilian homes, causing hundreds of them to burn.

Assad thugs (Shabeeha) supported by the security gangs attached the houses located at the edges of Hawla city, and committed field execution against the civilians, they slaughtered them with knives… most of the killed are children.

I called up to the UN monitors and begged them to come to Hawla , they promised to come tomorrow morning.
I asked the UN monitors to stop the shelling for only half an hour.

The UN monitors are sleeping now, while the massacres are being committed.

We used to count the number of martyrs, but now, we are counting the number of families slaughtered.
The whole world helps in killing the Syrians, not just the Syrian regime.

We have many martyrs and wounded that we could not reach because of the continuous shelling and the cut-off of electricity.

We are still discovering more massacres in the city.
The Syrian regime is now killing under the nose of the whole world and in the name of the UN monitors.

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Other videos documenting the massacres

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The Syrian Revolution: A One Year Summary

This is a translation of a factsheet written in Arabic by our friends from Cyprus to commemorate the one year anniversary of the start of the Syrian revolution. Thanks for their idea and information.

Tuesday, 15 March 2011: In an unprecedented move in defiance of President Bashar al Assad, a small demonstration took place in the capital Damascus following calls by activists on Facebook to demand an end to oppression, corruption and suppression of freedoms. Protests emerged against President Bashar Assad and his despotic family, which has been controlling power since 1971 as well as against the despotic Baath Party and the emergency laws it ruled with since 1963.

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A Memory of A Year in the Purgatory: A Testimony about Prison and Journalistic Work

Amer Matar

25 April 2012

Purgatory, is the most proper expression to describe the world of the Syrian State Security branches.. to live death in a closed narrow space, between two worlds. Between these two worlds I lived death.

On 28 March 2011 Bashar Al-Assad was a few meters from my house, laughing, while I was being tortured in my bedroom and the jailers’ shoes were scattering my clothes and notebooks. استمر في القراءة