READER COMMENTS

A small answer to the Arab street that would no longer like to give the Kurdish people some small hidden rights, on the pretext that we are Muslims, and nobody should be better than anyone else, and say that it is your right to open schools. This reminds me of the promises to restore the nationality to the Kurds; that only came after forty years, and after that, we say that we are advocates of freedom and we are not advocates of nationality … Well, a day will come and we will say to the new Shofenieen that we are calling for our full rights, not just the right to build a school. I do not think that we will take our rights with the unity of our calls. This is a small response to the Arab street: how we will convince Shofenia that federalism is the solution??? How can we be completely convinced that political decentralization is the solution? The fact of the matter is that you have been born to Shofen parents and follow in their footsteps; but we would like to promise you that the Kurdish children have decided to become doctors so as to save the Arab children from the plague of cancellation and exclusion.

What is all this hypocrisy? Don’t you feel ashamed? When Al Arabi, the Qatari and Gulf people speak, you think that the killing operations only take place in Syria. There are no more calamities in Egypt and there are no disasters in Yemen. Aside from that, there is no killing, torture, or abuse in Bahrain. Hypocrites. There is no media. In the past, we said that we had free media. Nowadays, we want the media to be neutral. In fact, the Gulf countries have a lot of oil money while the Bahraini Revolution still continues and the prisoners have revolted behind bars without paying attention to the torture and killing. We all hope that the Bahraini, Syrian, and Yemeni people will regain their rights and each will decide their own destiny.

O people of Damascus, do you still trust a ruler like Bashar, who is a killer and a criminal terrorist who did not have mercy upon old people, women or children? Is this the man or the regime that you can trust to take care of your future generations and aspirations? Syria and the Syrian people deserve a humane ruler, not a killer. The world is changing and the regime will certainly fall. Bashar will be ousted, even if our children and elders are killed. We will not allow ourselves to be cursed by the coming generations. We promise Syria that the future will be better.

The Syrian people are now living in a state of pain and tragedy because of the circumstances that followed the demonstrations and clashes experienced by the Arab nation, which has suffered from internal problems for months. These problems have led to the loss of innocent lives and the displacement of many Syrians from their towns where there is a lot of tension. I feel pain for what Syria is going through at the present time. I pray to God Almighty to consider his sympathy and mercy, which encompasses all things, for the Syrian people. They suffer a lot of pain and tragedies daily because of the killings, due to the clashes that occur between the demonstrators and the security forces, who have used excessive force against the Syrian people. I ask God the Almighty to return security, stability and peace of mind to all of Syria and to the Syrian cities, so that the Syrian people can live their best days, away from practices that are exposed today by the Syrian security forces that suppress the demonstrators in a way that cannot be described. Syrian people are now demanding change and reform, and these are their rights, which we hope that they will obtain.

Syria has witnessed a lot of internal problems in the past months that led to the complexity of the Syrian situation, in a way that led to the outbreak of needs in many Syrian cities, in which the demonstrations started for internal reformation. The situation was aggravated after that, due to clashes between security forces and demonstrators. The Syrian people demanded that their ruling regime step down. These claims have resulted in the aggravation of the clashes and the deaths of many innocent civilians. Thus, a lot of Syrian families, and especially in the regions and cities in which the armed clashes have intensified, have been forced to leave their housing areas because of the lack of security and stability. They have been forced to emigrate to the neighboring country of Lebanon in order to obtain security and to stay away from the manifestations of murder, displacement and all that would threaten their lives.

I pray to God that the situation in Syria will become stable, and that the Syrian people will have rest, security, stability, calm and tranquility. I pray that there will be an end to all the tensions, chaos and confusion in Syria that have been caused by the people demanding the departure of Bashar Al-Assad from power and a better government, which will be just, and which will ensure the provision of services to the people, and an end to all the aggression and rights violations and torture and killing of citizens, be it in the streets or inside people’s homes or in the prisons, where many innocent inmates who have done no wrong have been brutalized. They were victims of violence, criminality, dictatorial rule, injustices, barbarity and harshness. Many among the Syrian people have begun to suffer from these, just because they are calling for the restoration of their stolen rights. They have become victims of poverty, hunger, corruption, ignorance, negligence and neglect on the part of the Syrian government. This is why it is better for the current president, Bashar Al-Assad, to end all this, to resign from office and to leave it to others, so that the Syrian people can have freedom. Bashar Al-Assad must resign from the government immediately, because what has happened is not something that can be overlooked or forgiven.

O God! I ask you to bestow security, stability and tranquility on the Syrian people. O God! Have mercy upon them so they can escape the difficult situation in the country, which has destroyed everything and destroyed the country. O God! I ask you sincerely and trusting in Your compassion to grant us victory over our enemies. That is because we will never achieve victory unless you support us. O God! Grant victory to your sincere servants in Syria, who believe in your oneness, over their enemies. O God! Support them and made them victorious. O God! Send your blessings upon them and strengthen them to defeat their tyrannical enemies, who seek to spread oppression and corruption. We seek God's help against the cruel rulers in Syria who destroyed the country, killed the people, displaced the women and children, and tortured them. O God! Destroy them completely and make them destroy each other. O God! You do not accept injustice and you prohibited it for yourself and slaves. O God! You see and hear the suffering of the Syrian people, who are being oppressed at the hands of the tyrants. O God! Destroy them because they cannot resist your power. O God! Do not show mercy to them.

Many of the Syrian families decided to immigrate to Lebanon to find shelter for themselves and their women and children, despite the difficult circumstances that they are going through today. They suffer from the lack of supplies and provisions, as well as the cold weather, due to the snowfall in the region. They live in tents and in some camps or schools in groups or in the houses of some Lebanese families. However, the refugees and their children suffer from some diseases as a result of the cold and the living circumstances. Some refugees also need medications, because they live with chronic diseases. We must realize that the majority of the refugees are women, children and elders, and all of them need humanitarian care in order to overcome this crisis. However, we see that some humanitarian organizations are exerting simple relief efforts and doing their best to offer help to the Syrian refugees. Nevertheless, these efforts are insufficient, because the numbers of the refugees are increasing rapidly.

From Akar and Tripoli to Khaled Valley, the condition of the displaced people does not differ much from the condition of the displaced Syrians in Lebanon. Every day the conditions become worse. According to the reports of the High Commissioner for Refugees and the High Authority for Aid, the numbers of displaced Syrians are increasing, although not all the displaced people register their data, fearing the oppression of the Syrian regime. But the estimates refer to delegates of more than a hundred displaced persons weekly. Between the poor conditions in which the displaced people live and the stories of crimes which have been committed against them in their country, the Syrians immigrating to Lebanon are living in a bitter reality and harsh conditions. They may find some consolation in the welcome they receive from the people in the Lebanese villages, who have opened their houses to the strangers before the relatives. Dozens or maybe hundreds of Syrians are obliged every day to escape from their homeland over the Lebanese borders, after the barbaric attacks of the Syrian security forces and the armed elements affiliated to the regime in Tel Kelkh and the Syrian Homs as well as the neighboring regions. Those displaced people do not know to which unknown they are going. They are escaping death at the hands of the armed forces of the regime, only to face death from the cold in the light of the current weather conditions, as well as the lack of the supplies from which they suffer in their refuges in Lebanon. In spite of the efforts exerted by the Supreme Authority of Aid to provide the basic requirements to the displaced Syrians, many of them express their worry and fear of the cruel conditions which they face. Moreover, the number of the displaced people escaping via the legitimate border crossings to Lebanon is increasing. This is hindered only by the spread of the Syrian army at the borders and its planting of mines along the border line. No words, whatever they are, can express their suffering, and we cannot do anything now but pray for them.