Swiss newspaper: The Syrian revolution enters its tenth year with a terrifying “struggle” outcome

The Swiss newspaper “Luton” published a report in which it said that the Syrian revolution has entered its tenth year with a terrifying “conflict” outcome, with the number of victims exceeding thousands and the number of refugees in the millions, amid the total absence of signs of the crisis over.

Stefan Bossar who prepared the report talked about the beginning of the Syrian revolution, as it started from the Daraa Governorate, which has a population of more than 100,000, after the arrest and torture of young men who wrote slogans on the walls of their schools against the head of the regime Bashar al-Assad.

He pointed out that after the pro-democracy protests that began in Egypt and Tunisia, the arrest in Daraa triggered a wave of protests on March 15, 2011, which then swept across Syria.

To put out the fuse of those protests, the head of the regime resorted to using the usual methods of repression, which made the “conflict” gradually turn into a war. Later, to include the intervention of major regional powers.

The 10-year war claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, forced more than 12 million Syrians to leave their homes, and forced 6 million of them to leave the country.

Bossar said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria has called for sanctions to be imposed on those responsible for arbitrary arrests, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly even genocide.

He added that the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime forces has led to tragic death figures being recorded, however, these brutal acts went unpunished, and this case was not referred to the International Criminal Court at the suggestion of Switzerland and several other countries, due to the Russian veto.

The writer concluded that this conflict reshaped the geopolitics of the “Middle East”, after Russia restored – through its steadfast support for Bashar al-Assad – its role in the region, as well as greatly increasing Iranian influence.

Source: Al Jazeera