Syria: Between the Door and Trapdoors of Freedom

Khaled Beydoun

In a matter of days, the fate of Syria was transformed. Bashar Al-Assad, who presided over an authoritarian dynasty that ruled with iron fists for more than five decades, had fallen.

Before his demise, statues of his father and portraits of his own were shaken to the ground and shredded, marking a new day for the nation sanctioned from outside and silenced from within.

The glee that erupted was not merely political. It was deeply emotional. Al-Assad contributed to inhuman suppression campaigns that led to the slaughter of 600,000 Syrians, the displacement of 15 million internally and more than 4 million pushed into refuge and statelessness beyond Syrian borders.

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