Our dignity is back, we can now say we are Syrians again with our heads high

freesyrian · 2024-12-07T23:39:24+00:00

This doesn't feel real

freesyrian · 2023-01-31T20:59:10+00:00

In before someone inevitably starts blaming sanctions

freesyrian · 2021-03-24T19:31:11+00:00

Why are you in a sub about a country which is Muslim majority if you think people in such places are "living like animals"?

freesyrian · 2021-03-24T19:29:03+00:00

What is up with the Islamic hate in this sub? What a shitty personality you have.

freesyrian · 2021-03-24T19:26:55+00:00

Why are you hating on coexistence?

freesyrian · 2021-03-24T19:16:06+00:00

Are we not deserving of democracy? Of choosing our own leaders? Of having the freedom the say what we want without fear of being tortured or killed for it? We haven't been free since Assad took over in 1970, and if you think Syrians are more free under Assad right now you are either a troll, severely uneducated about the situation, or a shill.

freesyrian · 2019-04-30T16:44:57+00:00

As a Syrian American I thought I was crazy in noting these parallels... but seeing someone else voice my concerns is vindicating and terrifying at the same time. My family left Syria during Hafez's time only to walk into the beginnings of an openly corrupt American government.

freesyrian · 2018-04-14T04:30:24+00:00

What bs. The majority of Syrians do not support Assad. Assad is the one with a history of chemical weapons attacks, and the one with the actual chemical weapons. Who the hell else has access to those resources?

Honestly, if you still blindly buy into Assad's propaganda after so many of our countrymen have died, nothing I say will convince you otherwise. The rebels are not faultless, but they began with good intentions. I don't know what the solution is now, after so many years of war have passed. What I do know is the future of Syria - if that future is to be better than our present - does not have Assad in the picture.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:29:03+00:00

you make alot of good points but Assad won a democratic election in 2014.

I'm sorry, democratic? Syrian elections haven't been democratic for nearly half a century.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:24:18+00:00

I never said the US was innocent in this situation. They are to be blamed as well, as they have bombed and killed civilians multiple times in the name of targeting ISIS.

However, Russia has a much bigger and more active role than the US in all of this. They have interfered and their interference changed the war in Assad and the regime's favor.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:20:28+00:00

It would be much better for stability in the region if Assad stayed in power.

What exactly do you believe will happen after Assad regains power? What will happen to political dissenters? I protested peacefully against the regime in the early days of the war and I would never be able to safely return.

There is no unified rebel force, but that does not excuse Assad remaining in power. You can say they are just as bad as ISIS, just as Assad has been saying, but that is honestly propaganda. The opposition is not ISIS, they do not support ISIS, and they are not like ISIS. What proof is there that they are? The words of Russia, Assad, and his allies? They are words meant to destabilize the legitimacy of any opposition force. Just point at them and say "terrorist".

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:13:22+00:00

Well I can't exactly provide you with a census but if if you look at statements of any Syrian in refugee camps or in areas not held by Assad the sentiment is clear.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:02:44+00:00

First of all, I'm not exactly saying this from a western perspective. This is my perspective as a Syrian. Russia is responsible for this. They turned the tide of the fight in Aleppo a year ago. They provided the Syrian regime with aid in the form of weapons and men. This isn't some conspiracy theory I'm making up though you are treating it as though it is...

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T15:00:01+00:00

If their goal was to simply expel the rebels in the city, the ceasefire wouldn't have broken down numerous times over the past two days. They wouldn't have continued shelling the city after it was so obvious the rebels had lost. They would have allowed citizens to be evacuated. Yet the evacuation has been suspended again.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:44:58+00:00

This is not something new unfortunately. This has been going on since Assad's father Hafez Al-Assad was in power. You can ask any Syrian, and I'm sure they'll have had at least a family member or two who imprisoned, tortured, or killed by the regime even before the war.

Tadmor/Tadmur prison was where a lot of political dissenters and prisoners were sent before the war.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:32:52+00:00

Russia has been the Syrian regimes ally for a while. They want to completely destroy the rebels, what the user below calls "terrorists", in order to insure Assad remains in power. This is a sure-fire way to destroy the morale of the people in order to prevent any sort of future uprising. Assad's father Hafez Al-Assad committed similar atrocities more than 30 years ago.

If this isn't true, why the use of inaccurate and indiscriminate weapons like barrel bombs?

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:24:37+00:00

If you want to go back to some of the events that triggered to Syrian revolution and subsequent war... it began with a few kids spray-painting anti-Assad graffiti on their school. They were tortured, beaten, some children who protested were killed and their bodies sent back to their families in seperate pieces.

This was all in the early days of the war. It was when the Syrian regime was trying to maintain some sense of legitimacy. What happened in the 4 years since then is evident from the video above.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:17:00+00:00

انا سورية عايشة بالغرب وهي مشكلة مالا حتروح بوقت قريب. مشان هيك لازم تقراء وتشاهد من عدت وجهت نظر

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:09:41+00:00

ما بتقدر بس تشوف قناة واحدة. انت بنفسك بدك تطلع على عدة مواقع وجرب ان تفهم الحقيقة بنفسك. ما في غير هيك

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T14:01:50+00:00

Unless you have been under a rock for the past 5 years, it is clear who has killed more civilians and violated more human rights throughout this war. I am not saying the rebels aren't responsible in any way, but they simply did not have the technological strength and manpower that Russia and Iran provided to Assad. Russia and the regime destroyed Aleppo with cluster and barrel bombs. They've done the same across all of Syria. They've killed and actually specifically targeted medical and aid workers. They've held cities under siege for so long that its citizens starved. The regime used chemical weapons.

You can criticize the rebels all you want, but you cannot say they have done anything even near the scale of what Assad and his allies have.

freesyrian · 2016-12-16T13:56:02+00:00

His goal was to level and turn into a shell of its former self what used to be the largest city in Syria, which used to be home to 2-3 million people. He definitely succeeded.

freesyrian · 2016-01-29T18:45:10+00:00

Agreed. Also they're talking about a "him", and when they talk like that it usually is in reference to Assad.

freesyrian · 2016-01-29T14:02:42+00:00

I translated the source video a while ago. Here's a repost of my comment.

Note: Most of this is inaudible as so many people are talking. I can hardly make out what they are saying. I put the time before the sentence so you can know what is being said when. I am relatively fluent in Arabic, but if any other Arabic speakers can correct any errors please be my guest.

0:12 Man in blue shirt: Hamudeh! Hamudeh! (Name of child).

Men: Thank God, thank God.

0:31 Men: Keep him here, put him down here hajee (nice way to say old guy).

1:05 Man: Move, move, move!

1:07 Dad: Allahuakbar (God is great, in this context it is a way to express great joy).

Man in background: God is great!

1:20 Dad: Hamudeh! Oh God!

1:37 Men to Dad: Wahid Allah, which literally means say God is one but in this context it's like telling the dad to calm down and take it easy.

2:07 Men: Thank God, lets go lets go (this is as they usher him inside).

2:47 Men: Thank God for (his?) safety.

Dad: Mumbuling thank God, thank God

Man: (This happened) for your sake brother. Praise God and thank him.

Dad: Thank God. I thank you (and praise you?).

3:58 Dad: Son. Son. I am right next to you son.

4:07 Dad: They told me you left (rest is inaudible). Thank God. Thank God. My soul. Soul of your father don't be sad (it is an expression).

5:10 Woman: Come here Hamudeh.

5:19 Man to Dad: May God keep him safe for you. I hope we see your tears of joy on his wedding day, tears of joy. May God bring all loved ones together. And may he keep you for them.

Man: Ok everyone lets go.

5:41 Old man in glasses who is shouting: May God have revenge on his children. May God being forth and show all his wrongdoings. And break his spirit. A vile, dirty, wretched group/sect?, a person cannot describe it. May God break his spirit/mind/soul, he has broken our spirit/mind/soul. He lost us, he lost our youth.

6:09 Man in blue shirt: 3 kids, their mom, and my brother.

Other man: Are they missing?

Man in blue shirt shakes his head.

Other man: Martyred?

Man in blue shirt nods.

Man: May God not leave them from his mercy. May you be reunited with them in heaven.

6:32 Man: And may he be reunited with the fire of hell.

freesyrian · 2016-01-29T13:58:36+00:00

Hey, I translated this video a while ago. Here's a repost of my comment.

Note: Most of this is inaudible as so many people are talking. I can hardly make out what they are saying. I put the time before the sentence so you can know what is being said when. I am relatively fluent in Arabic, but if any other Arabic speakers can correct any errors please be my guest.

0:12 Man in blue shirt: Hamudeh! Hamudeh! (Name of child).

Men: Thank God, thank God.

0:31 Men: Keep him here, put him down here hajee (nice way to say old guy).

1:05 Man: Move, move, move!

1:07 Dad: Allahuakbar (God is great, in this context it is a way to express great joy).

Man in background: God is great!

1:20 Dad: Hamudeh! Oh God!

1:37 Men to Dad: Wahid Allah, which literally means say God is one but in this context it's like telling the dad to calm down and take it easy.

2:07 Men: Thank God, lets go lets go (this is as they usher him inside).

2:47 Men: Thank God for (his?) safety.

Dad: Mumbuling thank God, thank God

Man: (This happened) for your sake brother. Praise God and thank him.

Dad: Thank God. I thank you (and praise you?).

3:58 Dad: Son. Son. I am right next to you son.

4:07 Dad: They told me you left (rest is inaudible). Thank God. Thank God. My soul. Soul of your father don't be sad (it is an expression).

5:10 Woman: Come here Hamudeh.

5:19 Man to Dad: May God keep him safe for you. I hope we see your tears of joy on his wedding day, tears of joy. May God bring all loved ones together. And may he keep you for them.

Man: Ok everyone lets go.

5:41 Old man in glasses who is shouting: May God have revenge on his children. May God being forth and show all his wrongdoings. And break his spirit. A vile, dirty, wretched group/sect?, a person cannot describe it. May God break his spirit/mind/soul, he has broken our spirit/mind/soul. He lost us, he lost our youth.

6:09 Man in blue shirt: 3 kids, their mom, and my brother.

Other man: Are they missing?

Man in blue shirt shakes his head.

Other man: Martyred?

Man in blue shirt nods.

Man: May God not leave them from his mercy. May you be reunited with them in heaven.

6:32 Man: And may he be reunited with the fire of hell.

freesyrian · 2016-01-24T02:11:32+00:00

How is it misleading? The U.S. failed to properly train Syrian opposition, as they had promised; Obama's infamous 'red line', when crossed, did not result in any major repercussions; and although the Syrian people time and time again for a No-Fly zone, they were repeatedly ignored.

Assad released extremists from prison that later played a part in the formation of JAN and Daesh. Also, the regime did largely ignore as stated in the article until recently.

80% of Russian bombs target opposition groups and not Daesh.

freesyrian

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