Despite the rapid disintegration of the country and its
institutions, political activists are still organizing nonviolent rallies to
defy the regime and keep people’s focus on the initial goals of the revolution:
democratic change, not communal retributions. The battle might be lost, but it
is worth fighting.
Friday September
14, 2012
Today’s
Death toll: 108. The Breakdown: the
toll includes 20 children and 5 women. 30 in Aleppo, 26 in Damascus and Suburbs,
20 in Daraa (most in the massacre in Bosra), 19 in Deir Ezzor (especially in
Mouhassan and Alboukamal), 6 in Homs, 4 in Hama, and 3 in Idlib. (LCC)
390 demonstrations
took place throughout Syria. Activists are pushing hard for a return to peaceful
rallies to help keep focus on ousting Assad and prevent full-scale descent into
civil strife.
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Tens of thousands of Syrians who moved
into schools after air strikes and fighting drove them from their homes will be
on the move again on Sunday when the government plans to start the school year
despite unrelenting violence. Panic has spread through displaced communities in
roughly 800 schools around the country, each housing hundreds of men, women and
children with nowhere to go.
“This is a relatively flat border,
with nearly no physical barriers. The more the political boundary dissipates,
the more northern Syria and southern Turkey will merge into each other,” said
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington
Institute for Near East Policy. “In the long-term, this could expose Turkey to
unsavory political movements coming from post-Assad Syria, ranging from
potential jihadists to hard-line Kurdish nationalists.”
Randa Kassis and Jehad Saleh are
co-founders of the Movement for a Pluralistic Society, which is holding its
first member meeting in Paris on September 13-14. Randa Kassis is Syrian
anthropologist living in Paris and was formerly a member of the Syrian National
Council. Jehad Saleh is a Syrian freelance journalist living in Washington, DC.
In August 2012, my wife, Syrian
pro-democracy activist, Khawla Yusuf, and I undertook a three-week long trip to
Turkey. The trip was not our first, nor will it be our last. But having
coincided with many important developments on the ground and included meetings
with so many key activists and rebel leaders from inside the country, we
decided to put together this report, based on our impressions, by way of
shedding light on an increasingly tragic and troubling situation and in the
hope of spurring the international community into adopting a serious policy to
address it.
Video Highlights
In Douma, Damascus, trying to save a wounded young man from a
sniper http://youtu.be/KHKWvOhnmnY Meanwhile,
the bombing of the town of Madaya continues http://youtu.be/0tm54miQjaA The
neighborhood of Al-Qadam and surrounding alleys in Damascus City also
get pounded from day http://youtu.be/v4OqK5y-xRQ
, http://youtu.be/74Zh09KmEMs , http://youtu.be/axYIlY9l6uQ to night http://youtu.be/Zd0JnT2E4Iw , http://youtu.be/iafftHoZi7s
Buildings in the border town of Alboukamal, Deir Ezzor Province,
catch fire following a round of intense aerial bombing http://youtu.be/Lu9rx4iglhw , http://youtu.be/bGC3tPt35z0 , http://youtu.be/lWH7gl0Kbgk , http://youtu.be/RbRsQBjDHHg In nearby Qouriyeh,
locals prepare today’s dead for burial http://youtu.be/wkNToV9h9H4
The Jabal Shahshabo Region in Idlib gets pounded http://youtu.be/aywUUm8tCBk , http://youtu.be/qmo1ediJ4Q8
In Bosra, Daraa Province, locals try to rescue people caught
under the rubble http://youtu.be/qYZ6nYBwT7c
following an air raid http://youtu.be/fEMvRRdrXzE
The pounding of the town of Rastan continues http://youtu.be/qYZ6nYBwT7c , http://youtu.be/yKhgu1OzpnU
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