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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Inside Syria's Failed Rebellion, Islam and Politics, NewAgeIslam.com


Islam and Politics
26 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Inside Syria's Failed Rebellion


By Praveen Swami
President Bashar al-Assad's government has imposed order — but is yet to slay the three-headed dragon which threatens its survival.
Thick black lines had been scored over the graffiti under the cherubic image of President Bashar al-Assad that guards the road into Hama{minute}a. The military's clean-up squad had been less than diligent though: the word kalib, dog, survived the paint-brush censorship, and the soldiers had forgotten to have the President's gouged-out eyes repainted.
Inside the city, the rebels had left behind evidence no amount of paint could obscure: the burned-down military officers' mess on the Ard al-Khadra street, which mobs stormed in the hope of seizing weapons; the gutted office block which housed the justice department; the charred walls of the al-Hadr police station, pockmarked with machine-gun fire, where 17 police officers were lynched, before their mutilated bodies were thrown into a nearby canal.