An important beginning to combat drug trade in Syria
It seems that the Assad regime’s activities related to the manufacture, promotion, and smuggling of drugs have reached a dead end, after the US Congress passed what was called the “Captagon Law,” or the law to combat Assad’s drugs and their spread through smuggling.
The Captagon Act requires American official bodies to develop a strategy whose mission is to dismantle the production of narcotic pills and their trafficking by the Assad regime and the promotion networks cooperating with it.
The text of the law states: “Congress considers the Captagon trade linked to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria to be threatened because it crosses national borders, and therefore the United States must develop and implement an interagency strategy to deny and dismantle drug production and smuggling networks linked to Assad.”
The impact of the Captagon Law on the Assad regime: its new fate
In light of this situation, it can be said that the circle of the regime’s siege has begun to narrow a lot. In addition to the Caesar Act, the “Captagon Law” will be a sword hanging not over the state of the economic system, but rather over the neck of the head of the regime and all those collaborating with it in the production, smuggling, and promotion of drugs.
The United States of America was punished by General Manuel Noriega, President of Panama, after he was accused of drug trafficking and money laundering. This means that the United States can, under its laws, arrest Bashar al-Assad, just as it arrested General Noriega before him.
The Captagon Law is not just an increase in the economic blockade and the pursuit of drug smuggling networks linked to the head of the Assad regime. Rather, it is a qualitative shift that will paralyze the hand of everyone who tries to support the regime, specifically the support it previously received from its Russian and Iranian allies.
In the essence of the decision, the representative of the American Republican Party, French Hill, said, “The Assad regime in Syria has now become a drug state, and the current center of the drug trade is in the lands controlled by the Assad regime,” considering that Assad will now add the title of drug king to his description. Internationally recognized as a (killer of his people)
The Assad regime is in an unpleasant situation, as its head has become internationally wanted, as it poses a clear threat to the world through the manufacture, promotion and smuggling of drugs in all directions. Therefore, the revolutionary and opposition forces must lay the foundations for a new strategy regarding dealing with our Syrian people in the areas controlled by the Assad regime’s militias. .
The role of the revolutionary and opposition forces
The revolutionary and opposition forces are required to send messages of reassurance to all Syrian components, and that these messages focus on encouraging those who have not been involved in crimes against Syrians to work in a spirit of national responsibility, and to escape from the tyranny of tyranny, oppression, and drugs.
The Americans will not leave the Assad regime without accountability after today, and they will tighten the noose on the head of the regime and its security and military lining, which is involved in the blood of the Syrians. This will push the head of the regime and its lining to search for places to flee to to escape the wrath of the Syrians, for the hunger and extreme poverty this regime has brought them to. The country has never witnessed anything like it throughout its history.
The forces of revolution and opposition must employ the Captagon Law as an action plan among the Syrians in the regime’s areas, specifically the component that the Assad regime implicated in its war against the Syrians. This requires direct or indirect communication with national activities, which are broad in scope in this component, and this spectrum was harmed in the 1980s. The nineties of the last century included a policy of arrests, mutilation and torture, as it constituted a national democratic trend, which was severely suppressed by Hafez al-Assad to prevent its national activity and to consolidate the dictatorial regime, the features of which had been drawn since the beginning of the November coup in 1970.
The dire living situation of the Syrians in the areas controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s junta requires developing a strategy for a broad national movement that includes all components of the Syrians. The first signs of this movement began with the people’s movement in Suwayda, and with the bread demonstrations in Latakia.
Al-Assad and his regime are now under the eyes of US government agencies, and they will not miss the opportunity to pursue drug manufacturing, promotion and smuggling networks. These networks have regional and international arms, and for this reason the Captagon Law will be an important turning point in terms of starting to liquidate this terrible gang, which has ridden the backs of Syrians for more than fifty years with terrorism. Sedition and terrifying corruption.
In the face of its chronic crises, the regime will not escape from its consequences, and they will constitute an existential terror for it. When people are hungry and their bones are quenched by frost, they will not trust a regime that lied to them with statements that were proven false. It continued to dominate power as a result of its unlawful use of force of arms, and when the time came for its downfall, it sold everything. At home, let the Iranians, Russians, and the remnants of sectarian militias come to protect him, since he gave them everything they wanted from the Syrian geography and the country’s wealth in order for him to remain, even if nominally, at the head of power.
Addressing the Syrians with all their components under the control of the Assad regime is an urgent task, and it must not be subject to reactions and moods. Rather, an action program must be developed for it that leads to deepening the peaceful protests demanding the right to live in dignity. These protests can weaken the head of the Assad regime and push it to flee the country along with its entourage. This group committed the most heinous crimes against defenseless Syrian civilians, which must be subject to international or national trials.
The revolutionary and opposition forces must also call for the formation of a Syrian National Council, which includes all ethnic, religious and sectarian components of Syrians, but on a national basis in order to build a state of citizenship for all.
Wasting the opportunity of the Captagon Law by the revolutionary and opposition forces is an extension of the life of the Assad regime. Therefore, work must be done from now on to transform the power of the Captagon Law into a tangible tool for demolition of the Assad regime. Will the revolutionary and opposition forces go for this option, or will they be satisfied with waiting for what The Americans will accomplish it for the Syrians, and this is a disgrace, to say the least.
