Syria Break the wall of silence
Syrians, not the regime apparatus, will remove Assad The pro-Regime folks will not revolt against it, but its failures frustrate them.
Abdulwahab Badrakhan Lebanese journalist and writer – translation from Al Hayat Newspaper – originally published 9th October 2014
By the end of 2011 both con>licting parties in Syria were hopeful, believing that a possible and near ending of the crisis was looming as neither the regime had an interest in prolonging it nor did the opposition aim to destroy the country and prolong the victims list. However, a high-‐ranking regime of>icial, reportedly, disclosed con>identially to a bunch of his closest companions:" Alas, there is no close solution for the crisis and never will be I am afraid: Iran insists to >ight till the last Alawite in Syria".
By now, four years afterwards and while we can count almost 107.000 Alawite victims, more than 60.000 of them soldiers, Alawites are forced to swallow the bitter reality of the regime’s failure to l ive u p t o i t s p r o m i s e o f c l o s e decisiveness and political openness to be achieved after the presidential elections. What was pictured as "decisiveness" did not end the crisis and what was labelled a s " o p e n n e s s " m e r e l y l e d t o a government shouldering all criticisms, as Alawites, like other Syrians, are not authorized to criticize the regime directly.
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