Homeland

I would like to talk about the most important event in the recent history of Syria, the Syrian revolution, launched on March 2011.

Before this date, nobody in Syria could imagine that the Syrians will go one day to the streets to demonstrate against the dictatorship; we were completely living in fear.

On March 2011, the miracle happened and Syrian people went to the streets; few brave men and women started protesting; few weeks later, they were followed by hundreds of thousands of people who got out holding flowers and olive branches to express their peaceful movement. The peaceful uprising stretched out rapidly to different governorates all over Syria. The demonstrators’ claims were concentrating on economic and political reforms at the beginning; however, under the accelerated violence they had faced by the Syrian regime, they turned out soon to the demands of Freedom, Democracy, and Civic State.

More than 8 years have passed so far; one million people were killed or simply disappeared, 13 million Syrians were forcibly displaced, 8 millions of them fled abroad, and cities and neighborhoods are totally or partly destroyed; genocide has taken place for over 8 years and the world has been watching, just watching and doing nothing to stop the war crimes.

Over 8 years passed, and we still have the hope that one day we will celebrate a new Syria, a country of freedom, democracy, and human rights.