Secretary-General of Syrian Liwa Party: Best solution to end Syrian crisis is federal system

 Protests have continued in the city of As-Suwayda, intermittently since the beginning of last February, against the decisions and policies of the Damascus government, in which the demands have shifted from reforming the economic and service reality in the city to chanting “Down with the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad” and “Suwayda is ours, and it does not belong to Assad’s home.”  And the demand for the implementation of UN Resolution 2254 stipulating the political transition in Syria, amid the government’s marginalization of the protesters’ demands and its efforts to strike society and deepen the chaos and security that has spread in it after the outbreak of protests.

 The city of As-Suwayda lives in a state of chaos and lawlessness, as a result of the increase in killings and kidnappings, the spread of corruption and drug trafficking. As the Suwayda 24 network documented during the months of March and February, 16 people were killed and injured, most of them civilians, and 14 civilians were kidnapped and forcibly detained within the city, in light of  the reality of service and living deteriorating in the region.

 'The Damascus government will not respond'

 In this regard, the Secretary-General of the Syrian Liwa General Party, Malik Abu al-Khair, says: "The Damascus government, since 1970, has ignored the demands of the people of As-Suwayda and only made false promises to them. It has deprived As-Suwayda of any economic or agricultural advantages or any production lines for any economic activity.  Anything that could contribute to an economic renaissance within the city, and  decided to withdraw all the wealth of As-Suwayda and distribute it to other governorates such as Aleppo and Damascus.”

 Malik Abu al-Khair ruled out the response of the Damascus government to the demands of the people of As-Suwayda, saying: "The government will not respond, because the basic custom upon which this system is based is to deprive the people of As-Suwayda of all their rights, leaving them with two options, either to emigrate or to volunteer in the army, security or other jobs,  which they did not get their rights from, as the existing state policy is a sectarian policy towards the people of As-Suwayda. I expect more deprivation towards the people of As-Suwayda, specifically during the coming period.”

 A programmed chaos that serves the agendas of the government and its loyalists

 Malik Abu al-Khair attributed the reasons for the deepening of chaos and lawlessness within the city to the spread of “a group who work in the drug trade under the command of Hezbollah, the authority and the security services, such as the Popular Resistance faction. These are working to promote drugs and work with Iran and Hezbollah with all these  the filth that occurs in As-Suwayda.

 On April 24, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a group of smugglers had failed to bring a large shipment of narcotics into Jordan from the Khebret Matota border area with Jordan in the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda, after they were surprised by an ambush by the Jordanian army, according to the Observatory, the narcotics were coming from the Lebanese-Syrian border, amid a noticeable escalation in the smuggling of narcotics on the Syrian-Jordanian borders during the recent period.

 ISIS is a weapon to intimidate the people of As-Suwayda

 Abu al-Khair noted that the Damascus government deals with a different framework with As-Suwayda, which has a Druze majority, but on the other hand, the process of targeting it is not difficult and all scenarios are open to a conflict.  It is one of Hezbollah's tools in the Suwayda desert - the closest in the event of an escalation of action against the regime in the city."

 With the outbreak of protests in the city of As-Suwayda, the Damascus government rushed to send military reinforcements to the city, under the pretext of fearing the return of ISIS to the area.  In some eastern villages bordering the Badia.

 ISIS mercenaries launched an attack on the villages of the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda in 2018, killing about 200 people, amid local criticism of the Damascus government forces, which left the people of the region to face the attacks on their own.

 ignite strife

 While other observers fear that the Damascus government will be able to ignite strife and strike society by using some of its affiliate factions and their loyalists in the city of As-Suwayda, in order to break the cohesion of the people of the region and keep them away from their goal of protests, especially after the formation of new factions that support the protesters and a political solution in the city.

 The local factions in As-Suwayda played a major role during the protests, as they sided with the protesters, and new factions were formed against the backdrop of tensions with the security services of the Damascus government.

 At the end of February, a faction called "Ahrar al-Jabal Gathering" was formed, comprising a group of activists, leaders of several local factions, civilian individuals, and activists within opposition political groupings.  drugs.

 In this context, the Free Jabal Al-Arab Gathering in As-Suwayda threatened, on April 12, to wage war against the Damascus government if it did not stop its oppression of the people of the city.

 The statement stated, "We in the Jabal Al-Arab Ahrar Gathering stand against the Syrian regime, which practices a policy of marginalization and exclusion against everyone who wants reform in the state," explaining that "the Assad regime and its security services deliberately practice murder and chaos," stressing that it will fight those responsible for these practices.  And all those who collude with them, pledging to stand by the people of As-Suwayda against the government so that they can achieve their demands, according to local press sites.

 Dozens of activists in As-Suwayda also formed a political movement inside Syria, characterized by the presence of youth in it. Since the announcement of its launch in the city in March of this year, it has included 46 young men and women with scientific qualifications and activists in society, and its goals are to form a political body  It is based on dialogue and acceptance of others.

 Although the Damascus government did not act in the face of previous ISIS attacks on As-Suwayda, it did not stand idly by during the popular movement in the city.  The faction is in conflict with other factions in the city, according to local media.

 On the possible scenarios that may occur between the factions in As-Suwayda, Malik Abu al-Khair explains that "the battle that may take place is a battle between the factions made up of the sons of As-Suwayda who reject all government policies and corruption, and between the factions or terrorist armed groups affiliated with the security services of the Damascus government and Hezbollah  Those who work in kidnapping, looting, drug trafficking, facilitating the mechanism of smuggling them into Jordan, and protecting brothels.”

 He added: "The Damascus government divided Syria into spheres of influence, turned it into a den for the drug trade, destroyed its cities, caused the displacement of more than 11 million Syrians, and turned Syria into a place of terror. People started fleeing from it. In short, the regime today is the main reason for everything that is happening in Syria  And he is aware of this, and he realizes that his survival is based on a huge state of corruption and cannot fight or fix corruption, because his system in itself is a system of corruption, and it will not change the situation anything.”  Next period.

 The solution lies in the federal system

 At the conclusion of his speech, the Secretary-General of the Syrian Major General Party, Malik Abu al-Khair, considered that the best and best solution to end the Syrian crisis and its renaissance in the next stage is to implement the system and the federal solution in Syria by making each region rebuild itself in its own way with the presence of a government that sponsors this federal system and works  For its success, far from the intervention of the central government, which has resulted in nothing but harm over the past decades of Syria’s history.

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