19 Mar 2012 - On 15 March 2011 a group of children of the sadly now famous city of Deraa, on their way out of school, wrote the first slogans on street walls calling for democracy and change of the authoritarian regime in Syria. That was a symbolic, peaceful and civilized act by very young citizens to echo the astonishing events in Egypt and Tunisia. The security forces reacted immediately through the only way they are used to under an oppressive rule, by arresting those children and subjecting them to brutal and disproportionate torture. It was not long before the Syrian people, completely aware of what was going on around them in the region and having suffered for long decades of ruthless oppression, could not support such cruelty anymore and decided to take to the streets. They peacefully cried out the so common demand in the Arab Spring “down with the regime”. In a matter of days protests spread across the country and among all segments of the Syrian social fabric.
For the full story, see IDEA.
19 Mar 2012 - On 15 March 2011 a group of children of the sadly now famous city of Deraa, on their way out of school, wrote the first slogans on street walls calling for democracy and change of the authoritarian regime in Syria. That was a symbolic, peaceful and civilized act by very young citizens to echo the astonishing events in Egypt and Tunisia. The security forces reacted immediately through the only way they are used to under an oppressive rule, by arresting those children and subjecting them to brutal and disproportionate torture. It was not long before the Syrian people, completely aware of what was going on around them in the region and having suffered for long decades of ruthless oppression, could not support such cruelty anymore and decided to take to the streets. They peacefully cried out the so common demand in the Arab Spring “down with the regime”. In a matter of days protests spread across the country and among all segments of the Syrian social fabric.
For the full story, see IDEA.