Twelve years of a people’s revolution, and forty days of an earthquake, were lived together by millions of Syrians in their homes, in their homes, and in places of displacement, and those who did not live them in reality due to a geographical distance lived in them, and in their repercussions, all the torments of oppression, coercion, arbitrariness, devastation, and the pain of losing loved ones, and no Syrian home was devoid of them wherever they were. He was in a land as narrow as it was spacious. It is as if nature refused to allow the Syrian revolution, unique in the third millennium AD, to complete its twelfth year without ending it with forty days of earthquake.
The natural disaster represented by an earthquake is in the memory of the most violent generations in the region that extends geographically from the middle of northern Syria to the middle of southern Turkey. Its millennium numbers are still infinite, and will remain so as long as the rubble is not removed, and the rubble lies on top of thousands of those who are still missing, even if it is undermined. Hopes that someone will survive or that people will be found alive, but the statistics are still incompletely proven for the victims of an earthquake that was more disastrous and damaging from its first moment, and then with the subsequent several earthquakes of close intensity, tremors of varying magnitude, and aftershocks amounting to thousands, without the earth’s plates settling in the depths and still Until now, the inhabitants of its surface are dying.
The horror of the earthquake disaster on the Syrians is that it occurred in a single moment, and its impact was staggering, but despite its horror and its rising numbers, it does not constitute a noticeable number as a percentage compared to the horrors of what the Syrians were exposed to over the years of their revolution, from all forms of killing, abuse, arrest, disappearance, intimidation, and sabotage, and then what resulted from all These criminal acts are catastrophic on all levels.
Any numerical comparison between the toll of the earthquake disaster in terms of victims whose number exceeded ten thousand Syrians in both Syria and Turkey, their weak number of injured, the thousands of demolished and cracked homes, the sleeping in the open and new displacement movements it necessitated, and the psychological, health, living, educational and social consequences it will record for more. Of the million affected people, it remains, as a percentage, a single number that does not amount in any aspect to a tenth of the major catastrophe, which is war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by those who belong to the human race in character while they are far from any virtue in character.
The earthquake disaster that befell the Syrians in its forty days is added to the total disasters and calamities that befell them as a result of a tyranny led by clinging to power and driven by regional agendas that take the deposits of internal grudges as a pretext for more ideological crime, in service of their ambitious regional strategic projects, and which are almost silent internationally as part of attempts to shape a new world. He almost stripped himself of the minimum limits of morality, putting us before a more important question on the anniversary of the start of the Syrian revolution. After twelve years of the life of this revolution and what it has achieved (what is left..)?
What’s left?
And the revolution that arose as a massive uprising of a people whose groups, in the opening sign of an Arab Spring, broke all the veils of fear and shattered all the walls of silence, to shake the throne of the tyrannical system in a few days, during which its flame spread from the far south to the farthest parts of the country, and it was without ideologies, without preparations or incitement. Without any effective trace of parties or blocs, the ruling system worked to desertify it for decades and succeeded, but the revolution surprised it in that the systems were unable to curb the fervent aspirations for a state of freedom and dignity in an era in which scissors no longer exist, nor are guillotines capable of stopping the torrents of information flowing globally, nor Eradicating the roaring voices through change, even if they are brutalized by torture, including arrest, killing, and cutting out throats. But those who made the mounting call at that time – for the revolution to remain without political leaders for fear of deviations and drifts – later found, among them and those who came from obscurity to rise to prominence, those trying to distort it, employing extremist and extremist rhetoric that used the innate sentiment of religion as a cover for its agendas, to create a reality that made… The revolutionary incubator is in confusion, and in the face of more than one old and renewed enemy, it is still suffering even in its liberation from its sediments and active and dormant cancer cells, and it is being used as a pretext by countries searching for pretexts, even if they are from the manufacturers.
What’s left?
What the forces of the armed revolution were able in its first years to impose on the ground and considered it a liberation was continuous from the Jordanian border in the south to the Turkish border in the north and expanding to the east and west. Then it began to atrophy, shrink and dismember, spot by spot, to become a strip in the northwest shared by two forces within the folds of each of them, which leaves the possibilities Unsafe consequences exist at every moment, and are subject to the pressures of powerful forces, both external and internal.
What’s left?
The forces of revolution on the ground and the popular incubator are still far from any convincing organization of their ranks, effective selection of their elites, and contentment with those who claim to represent them, while they are not satisfied with him, neither with his structure, nor the reality of his representation, nor his poor political performance. While the reality of the situation internally has produced powerful forces with the power of weapons and undisciplined factions, some of whose leaders have turned into warlords, and their inclusion in the structure of the National Army is still a matter of debate and response, despite all the efforts made that have come a long way, and they are still striving, but they have not yet achieved what is convincing. Looking forward. While government institutions, with their civil and service administrations and local councils, are still complaining of poor performance as a result of uncontrolled distribution of dependencies and loyalties within a governmental framework that keeps the name (government) as a patronizing umbrella rather than an executive authority exercising its full duties and responsibilities on the ground, and the voice of the incubator that rose during the The last months of the necessity of empowerment are just a voice that does not find its desired reflection.
There will be many questions about what remains, but there is hope that persists in every revolutionary soul that believes in what the people’s revolution was for, and made sacrifices that contemporary history has never known in revolutions. Those free souls whose will was not able to be subjugated by all the calamities, disasters, and crimes that scattered them across migrant lands, places of displacement, and camps.
Is our last bet on that revolutionary spirit? Has that spirit not been shaken after twelve years of earthquakes by crime and nature?
Who can recover today what was twelve years ago?
And the earthquake that the latent revolutionary spirit did at that time, the impact of which is still ongoing and all of its repercussions remain, realizes that that spirit is capable of exploding at all times, and that the spirit of revolutions remains earthquake-proof even if it is struck by an earthquake.
