Is it too early to share some thoughts about a post-Assad Syria? Maybe in the case being extreme superstitious, and even than it's a question if really something speaks against imagining the common time most Syrians and their friends yearn for finally becoming reality. To push such considerations aside as long as the tyrant is not definitely toppled wouldn't be wise as many examples from the times of political change taught us. They are part of the mental process beginning with the public announcement for a new sytem and ending by closing all open back doors which could lead to the return of the overthrown system back to the power.
In Libya the NTC and engaged citizens already shared their thoughts about the reorganization of their nation at a time when fights took place on several frontlines and a final victory‘s point of time over the Gaddafi loyals and their mercenaries was not clearly predictable. At the same time in Italy a democratically elected despot remained still in power who had to owe his position primarily to the missing concept of a discordant opposition.
Imagining an overcoming of the existing tyranny is immensely important to maintain the will just in the case of backlashes or, to be seen in Syria for months, during permanent crude infringements and provocations committed by the army and the security forces. However, at a certain level this image must be also extended on the concretion of own demands to invalidate the arguments from those referring to a lacking draft or concerns about a possible worsening of the general political situation caused by a change and thus, involuntarily or directly, to support the regime.
The revolution itself is in its early stage something spontaneous which corresponds either to a longer preserved desire or comes by a special incident to the outbreak. However, with increasing duration of the active opposition also grows the requirement for the revolutionaries and their supporters to concretize their images of the time after the successful toppling of the regime. The rather this happens, the better for the opposition movement. It does not fight exclusively against the defenders of the tyranny, but likewise against the lobby of sceptics who mostly state no explicit loyalty to one of both sides and believe in being on the save side through their maneuvering tactics. Exclusively the existing system profits from their attitude.
To weaken the arguments of this group as far as possible, pure considerations aren‘t sufficient. Alternative drafts to the still existing form of government must be specified. With the announcement of a such a draft Dr. Burhan Ghalioun, president of SNC, already put successfully in words the desired change of power at a political level. Those representatives not being aware about a time after Assad can see a clear concept for the necessary transformation of the Syrian state in his message to the Syrian people addressed end of October.
It is a beginning which will take his run during the coming months by conversations and arrangements. While Assad‘s inability to implement reforms and - what is much more alarming - to hold his own security forces under control is becoming more and more viewable, the statutes of a political modernization of the land are continuously worked out in the name of his population. Clear definitions like the separation of powers and the public decision-making process play also an eminent role like the guarantees to abide by the human rights and to exclude retaliatory measures.
Especially the last mentioned should be stressed in all clearness not to lose the confidence of those who support the opposition movement in Syria without reservation just because of their nonviolence and to the other even to remind the members of the resistance, not to repay same with same and thus to fall down on the level of those who are to overcome.
Of course many of the secret service agents and army members have committed terrible crimes which can be neither awarded nor forgotten. In case of their capture the Syrian people will have to decide themselves on their final judgment. But also here it obtains to maintain those laws for which the revolutionaries in the name of justice are fighting for during their resistance full of sacrifices.
As a recognition-worthy example those pictures from Libyan hospitals are to be called in the memory on which wounded Gaddafi loyals were to be seen delivered by the freedom fighters. Instead of taking an eye for an eye they were supplied medically. An attitude evoking deep respect towards the human life and showing clearly that a spiral of violence can only be stopped by a basic change of own behavior.
Only speculations can be made about what the main responsibles have to expect after the fall of the regime in Syria.But for those having acted by order an adequate punishment might be given in form of a long-standing, even life-long custody. New prisons haven‘t to be established for that. Those who have tormented for example should be accommodated after their conviction under observance of all juridical principles in the same cells and tracts in which they were acting as executive organs. Their punishment would consist in getting the mirror reproached for that what they have fulfilled by order without repaying same with same. An approach, I think, to no active human rights activist should have concerns against.
The principle of the amnesty should count to all regime followers which not means that their sympathy with the fallen regime will be forgotten. The deep wounds which were hit in nearly five decades of dynastic dictatorship and up to now more than eight months of bloody attempts to crackdown the uprising time is needed for effective rcovering. Weaker natures among the former regime loyals will also need a longer period to overcome their fears of revenge fand to rebuild a mutual trust. We may not disregard that the Assad rulership almost has placed systematically mistrust and informer's mentality in the Syrian society over half a century. To overcome this it is a matter of approaching each other warily and sensitively. Besides, we as friends of the Syrian people can guarantee to them mental and moral support, while we accompany them with her process to grow together to a unity without appearing patronizing.
After all what the Syrians had to suffer in grief in the younger history it is to be wished them sincerely not only to enjoy soon their newly won freedom with every breathtake but also to implement successfully the responsibility linked with it as a permanent political condition.
In Libya the NTC and engaged citizens already shared their thoughts about the reorganization of their nation at a time when fights took place on several frontlines and a final victory‘s point of time over the Gaddafi loyals and their mercenaries was not clearly predictable. At the same time in Italy a democratically elected despot remained still in power who had to owe his position primarily to the missing concept of a discordant opposition.
Imagining an overcoming of the existing tyranny is immensely important to maintain the will just in the case of backlashes or, to be seen in Syria for months, during permanent crude infringements and provocations committed by the army and the security forces. However, at a certain level this image must be also extended on the concretion of own demands to invalidate the arguments from those referring to a lacking draft or concerns about a possible worsening of the general political situation caused by a change and thus, involuntarily or directly, to support the regime.
The revolution itself is in its early stage something spontaneous which corresponds either to a longer preserved desire or comes by a special incident to the outbreak. However, with increasing duration of the active opposition also grows the requirement for the revolutionaries and their supporters to concretize their images of the time after the successful toppling of the regime. The rather this happens, the better for the opposition movement. It does not fight exclusively against the defenders of the tyranny, but likewise against the lobby of sceptics who mostly state no explicit loyalty to one of both sides and believe in being on the save side through their maneuvering tactics. Exclusively the existing system profits from their attitude.
To weaken the arguments of this group as far as possible, pure considerations aren‘t sufficient. Alternative drafts to the still existing form of government must be specified. With the announcement of a such a draft Dr. Burhan Ghalioun, president of SNC, already put successfully in words the desired change of power at a political level. Those representatives not being aware about a time after Assad can see a clear concept for the necessary transformation of the Syrian state in his message to the Syrian people addressed end of October.
It is a beginning which will take his run during the coming months by conversations and arrangements. While Assad‘s inability to implement reforms and - what is much more alarming - to hold his own security forces under control is becoming more and more viewable, the statutes of a political modernization of the land are continuously worked out in the name of his population. Clear definitions like the separation of powers and the public decision-making process play also an eminent role like the guarantees to abide by the human rights and to exclude retaliatory measures.
Especially the last mentioned should be stressed in all clearness not to lose the confidence of those who support the opposition movement in Syria without reservation just because of their nonviolence and to the other even to remind the members of the resistance, not to repay same with same and thus to fall down on the level of those who are to overcome.
Of course many of the secret service agents and army members have committed terrible crimes which can be neither awarded nor forgotten. In case of their capture the Syrian people will have to decide themselves on their final judgment. But also here it obtains to maintain those laws for which the revolutionaries in the name of justice are fighting for during their resistance full of sacrifices.
As a recognition-worthy example those pictures from Libyan hospitals are to be called in the memory on which wounded Gaddafi loyals were to be seen delivered by the freedom fighters. Instead of taking an eye for an eye they were supplied medically. An attitude evoking deep respect towards the human life and showing clearly that a spiral of violence can only be stopped by a basic change of own behavior.
Only speculations can be made about what the main responsibles have to expect after the fall of the regime in Syria.But for those having acted by order an adequate punishment might be given in form of a long-standing, even life-long custody. New prisons haven‘t to be established for that. Those who have tormented for example should be accommodated after their conviction under observance of all juridical principles in the same cells and tracts in which they were acting as executive organs. Their punishment would consist in getting the mirror reproached for that what they have fulfilled by order without repaying same with same. An approach, I think, to no active human rights activist should have concerns against.
The principle of the amnesty should count to all regime followers which not means that their sympathy with the fallen regime will be forgotten. The deep wounds which were hit in nearly five decades of dynastic dictatorship and up to now more than eight months of bloody attempts to crackdown the uprising time is needed for effective rcovering. Weaker natures among the former regime loyals will also need a longer period to overcome their fears of revenge fand to rebuild a mutual trust. We may not disregard that the Assad rulership almost has placed systematically mistrust and informer's mentality in the Syrian society over half a century. To overcome this it is a matter of approaching each other warily and sensitively. Besides, we as friends of the Syrian people can guarantee to them mental and moral support, while we accompany them with her process to grow together to a unity without appearing patronizing.
After all what the Syrians had to suffer in grief in the younger history it is to be wished them sincerely not only to enjoy soon their newly won freedom with every breathtake but also to implement successfully the responsibility linked with it as a permanent political condition.
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