While nearly the whole online world is focussig on the unrests erupted in Turkey I will take the chance reflecting a bit about its Southern neighbor getting more and more torn into pieces; where even the reality on the ground seems almost impossible to diagnose what never was easy in the recent two years but became in the meantime completely impossible.
Why? Because all reported ongoings are causing more confusion than elucidation. That plays more in the blood-drenched hands of the disgraceful regime and doesn't really help those fighting to regain freedom and dignity. Déja ecouté? Yes, the restoration of freedom and dignity was one of the central pillars of the revolutionary movement in Syria when it started in March 2011. A fact which the regimers and assadistas would like to erase far too willingly from the global public's memory.
The Syrian information ministry (which doesn't deserve to be entitled that) is announcing a statement that "the Turkish people don't deserve Erdoğan's barbarity"? Doesn't surprise me.
The Syrian foreign ministry (with the unspeakable Moallem at the top) is advising Syrians "not to travel to Turkey because of disturbances"? Doesn't surprise me either.
It's the expected reaction of the doomed dynasty to nebulize the global perception, to legitimize and marginalize its own brutal handwriting how to treat the people. But they will not get away with that.
Even Bashar's Russian doctoral thesis supervisor is able to hide that fact. Maybe his reported proposal Israel should buy the air defense system instead of the Syrian regime is a small signal that he doesn't count any longer on Assad himself, preferring in the meantime a for him adequate replacement (who- or whatever this might be). Still Putin is playing the hardliner card on the international parquet floor of diplomacy. Still.
That what the Western faction is setting in scene since beginning of the year looks like a bad sequel of the former flops 'The Great Hesitation 2011' and 'The Great Hesitation 2012'. Generally favoring the revolutionaries but always finding reasons not to side them effectively ('arms could fall into the wrong hands', 'terrorists might profit', etc etc ..) the coalition of the "Friends Of Syria" is maneuvring as if an international championship in that discipline is shouted out.
All that doesn't help those sticking into deep trouble by getting deplaced, attacked, detained, tortured, murdered.
Those Syrians having lost from a few friends up to their whole families have a given right to be angry.
Angry on the shitty situation they are now in, angry on the regimers who sent out their shabeeha executors to silence the uprisers in their own way and who called now the Hezbollah mercenaries to assist them in their lethal crackdown. Angry on a United Nations body which is unable to condemn proven crimes against humanity caused by the Assad tyranny. Angry on all those commenting the atrocities in Syria with a shrug of the shoulders or even worse: subliming each necessary differentiation with the inglorious label 'Terrorists!'
Cause the funny (tragical? Bitter? Grotesque?) thing is that those who are terrorizing call their victims 'terrorists'.
Whitewashing his rulership is Assad's only survival tactic. He bets on the short-term memory of the global community getting one day amnestied for all he's responsible for. But that doesn't also work: the global consciousness has its memory cache in the meantime in the internet. Bad for him. Daddy Hafez had it better before ruling and oppressing in times negatives had to become developed before getting published, in times articles first had to be printed. (For those being under 20yrs: yes, there was a pre-digital age.)
This is another thing the people - from the average reader to the claimed Mid-East expert - tend to forget: in almost half a century dictatorial delusion the Assad clan brought to perfection it's almost impossible to expect from the Syrians being hard-boiled waterproof democratical humanists. The rising of dubious groups like Jabhat al-Nusra is certainly in the eyes of some a disturbing trend but that doesn't change the fact that the revolution's origin is based in the demand of changing the political system. Some of the first-day activists have kind of resigned considering the increasing violence they witnessed all around them but they are not to blame for the crisis we have now to witness.
And those seemingly standing behind the regime? Are they really all loyalists in the meaning of this expression? Or are they silencing because they fear revenge attacks from their own faction? I can and will not believe that all Alawis are standing like a rock behind the Fuehrer. All they have to do is to break away from the bloodshed causing clan, forcing a moderate wing in-between the Baath party to take over. Easy said, I know, similar problems the National Coalition is actually dealing with.
Shoveling senseless banalities upon given facts - barbaric crimes against innocent civilians, women children - is one of the dirty propaganda strategics the regime uses to justify its survival.
It's up to us that they will not come through with this. The flame of justice will burn eternally. The committed atrocities won't either be forgotten or forgiven.
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