Developments in As-Suwayda to where?

The Syrian governorate of As-Suwayda, in the south of the country, is witnessing popular demonstrations that erupted in protest against the policies of the Damascus government, the latest of which is the tightening of the screws on the Syrians on the economic side, which was represented by raising the prices of basic materials, which increased the suffering of the Syrians.

According to the "Suwayda 24" page, the first day of the movement witnessed a great response by the people, as the people carried out a general strike, closed the shops, and the employees of government institutions refrained from going to their work.

The government has turned into a taxes center

Lawyer and political activist, Adel Al-Hadi, spoke to us from As-Suwayda, saying: "The decisions of the Syrian authority have caused a massive new wave of protest and calls for civil disobedience and forcing public authorities to close their doors, and the unjust decisions of the Ba'ath government have created a new state of unity among the loyalists of the regime." The tyrannical Baathist is the agent of colonial forces and among the general public, and this is what made the protests popular in the full sense of the word.

He added, "For more than three consecutive years, the Syrian occupation government only issued decisions to collect from the pockets of citizens after it impoverished them to the maximum degree, as 90% of Syrians became below the poverty line according to all international standards, and this collection targeted the joints of people's lives by issuing a passport." Traveling with exorbitant sums, to security approvals, to paying a hundred US dollars for a citizen to enter his country, to checkpoints whose function is to steal citizens’ money and insult them.The government’s decisions have destroyed the country’s economy, and it is enough for you to arrest merchants, businessmen, and money in one of the security branches in Damascus to force them to pay what they own in return for their release. Or transfer them to the judiciary on false charges.

The situation is heading for further escalation

Regarding the course of developments, Al-Hadi indicated that "it is clear that the situation in As-Suwayda and other areas is heading towards further escalation and has no solution except through political transition and the implementation of Resolution 2,254 as a condition for financing reconstruction."

Al-Hadi sent a message to the protesters, saying: "The organizers of the protests should protect public institutions, because they belong to the people, and they should be especially wary of the fifth column that the authorities will push within the movement to sabotage it and delegitimize it."

The problem has a political basis and the solution is to get rid of centralization

Although these demonstrations carried economic and living demands, these demonstrations were not the first of their kind, as As-Suwayda witnessed many demonstrations earlier that carried political demands, the most prominent of which was getting rid of the central government, as the province followed the footsteps of North and East Syria and took a distant third path. About tyranny and falling into the arms of the occupied countries, as did the so-called "Syrian opposition", which has become a tool in the hands of the Turkish occupation.

During the past years, voices in As-Suwayda governorate began calling for the implementation of the Autonomous Administration model, after it proved successful in North and East Syria.

Al-Hadi indicated in this context that "the problem in Syria was never economic, but political par excellence, because the philosophy of government is tyrannical, which is the basis of affliction and corruption, and that the translation of tyranny is severe centralization that marginalizes the parties and deprives them of development. There is no doubt that the solution is through political transition in accordance with Resolution 2,254 and the transition to a regime." Decentralized, secular, democratic government.

T/ Satt.

ANHA