The Spring Revolution..A Revolution for Dignity
Green will be the symbolic colour for this day in reference to the colour of spring; the colour of rebirth and generosity
On this day we salute each and every defiant patriot in our homeland. We send a salute to the free martyrs and pray for the wounded, the detainees, the missing, the homeless and the exiled. استمر في القراءة
Our Nation won’t be built upon political-pickering
Yellow will be the identifying colour of this day in reference to the political opposition and the Free Army.
Since Assad assumed power in Syria, the civil society was denied political, institutional and even civil participation as well as the ability to partake and organise itself in institutions. The Syrian people were forcibly denied from participating in decision making and expressing opinion.
In 2011 the Revolution of Dignity erupted. Her first heroes were children who wrote on walls. A revolutionary movement was started and led by youth who demanded freedom and social justice. Events moved quickly and as their demands increased the traditional opposition tried to catch up with the revolution. However they too were met with suppression and oppression or sometimes with persuasion and ideologization from the regime. The traditional opposition failed to come up with a clear political agenda that lives up to its responsibility in leading the revolution and achieving a political solution. This political flounder by the opposition, in addition to the sheer violence of the regime and its implication of the army and armed forces in killing the people, has led many soldiers to defect from the ranks of the regime’s army and form militias in the rebeling areas in an attempt to protect the civilians and peaceful demonstrations. These militias formed the core of the “Free Syrian Army” which took upon itself managing everyday life in the liberated areas alongside the revolutionary local councils. The chaos resulting from the lack of any political solution on which all parties can agree on, the spread of arms and armament, and the militarisation of the revolution gave the regime a green light from the international community to carry on relentlessly with its killing and destruction, while the world stand silently when it uses Scud missiles!
As this days passes, two years after the outbreak of the revolution with its heavy toll of destruction and wounds, the opposition parties should remember the fundamental goal and demands of the revolution. We ask them to work hand in hand with all revolutionary groups and youth movements to arrive at a political solution to end the crises; stand against the regime, its supporters, and its counterparts of radical groups alien to the revolution; to reclaim the country from Assad’s rule and return it to its rightful owners who have taken it to the streets in a Human Being’s Revolution for Life.
Click here to read an introduction and background for the Campaign
Official Facebook page of the “Human’s Revolution in the Sake of Life” campaign: https://www.facebook.com/SyrRev2
For more details about the campaign: http://issuu.com/syrianrev2/docs/enhumanforlife
“Haven’t you had enough of our blood yet ….But where to now??!! “
Red color will be the identity of this day in reference to the blood that was and still being shed by the regime all over the map of the country for the throughout the past two years.
Since the regime took over power, complete sections of Syrian soils were given up. It relinquished the rights of our people in Golan heights with its Syrian identity. It remained silent towards the Israeli occupation; even towards its hostilities holding on to “the right to retaliate.” Furthermore, it infringed on people’s liberty, monopolizing politics and state institution and accusing whoever opposes it politically of deviating from the principles of the so-called “The Revolution of The Eighth of March”.
With the revolution’s outbreak, sectarianism was its most awful weapon. The regime has been working hard throughout the past two years utilizing its repugnant media and horrendous practices to divide and segment the country into conflicting cantons that are defined on pre-civil bases like Sunni, Alawite, Shi’i, Ismaili, Christian, and fundamentalist, etc. It, moreover, associated the security of Syrian minorities with its persistence, and went on to threaten the whole region with a war that shall redraw the political and even the demographic map in case of its fall.
Since the beginning of the uprising, the regime has relied on a policy of arbitrary arrests and forced disappearance for all those who tried to get involved in the Revolution of Dignity. It crushed on the peaceful civil movement brutally, meeting it with systematic killing. And as the voices asking for freedom become louder and louder, it started bombarding and devastating the country, demolishing its institutions and destroying its infrastructure. The Syrian people as a result were forced to desert and seek asylum in order to save their lives. The regime has also drained all of the country resources and put them in the service of its repressing machine, implementing thereby its motto: “[either] al-Assad or [otherwise] we burn the country!”
This day comes to document practices of the regime over the past two years, exposing it out in front of those who are still supporting it by asking them a question: “Where is this country heading to now? When will you have the courage to accept our right rise up in revolt: The Human Being’s Revolution for Life?”
Click here to read an introduction and background for the Campaign
Official Facebook page of the “Human’s Revolution in the Sake of Life” campaign: https://www.facebook.com/SyrRev2
For more details about the campaign: http://issuu.com/syrianrev2/docs/enhumanforlife
Blue will be used as the defining colour of this day in reference to the colour used in the UN’s logo as a reminder of its role to protect human rights and defend liberty.
The Syrian people felt betrayed. International conventions and treaties which were put in place to defend human rights were all but ignored in the face of the economic and political interests of the world’s powers. The Syrian people felt that these treaties are nothing but pieces of paper which are taken out of the drawer or hidden according to the wishes of those powers. Meanwhile, international humanitarian organisations have abandoned their true mission under political and logistic pressures to become unjustifiably silent and almost obsolete towards what is happening in Syria. The martyrs, detainees, and displaced refugees of the Syrian people have become nothing but numbers that are collected by these organisation at the end of each day, without working on any real solution or playing a significant role to stop the bloodbath and cycle of destruction.
On this day we want to send our message as human beings directly to our fellow human beings bypassing governments, politics, statements, and empty promises and condemnations. We scream out to all of humanity to move and respond to our tragedy and stand besides us as one against injustice, indignity, and cheap death, to support us in our revolution – the revolution of a human being for life.
Click here to read an introduction and background for the Campaign
Official Facebook page of the “Human’s Revolution in the Sake of Life” campaign: https://www.facebook.com/SyrRev2
For more details about the campaign: http://issuu.com/syrianrev2/docs/enhumanforlife
Official Human’s Revolution in the Sake of Life” campaign: https://www.facebook.com/SyrRev2
The Constitution Uprising in the seventies then the events of the eighties were an expression of the people’s refusal of power monopolization by al-Assad.
The Damascus Spring and the political demands associated with it didn’t last long in the face of the regime’s oppression. It ended in 2001.
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