“It is clear to everyone that the regime is not negotiating to end the war - it came to take revenge on the place where it all began 10 years ago” Opinion | omar_alharir
We all know very well that when the buses come, we will have to make choices that are difficult, bitter, harsh and painful. It is not our first time seeing these green buses, and it won't be the last. They are always the regime's solution, and often the only solution for the trapped opponents of Bashar al Assad’s regime.
In southern Syria, I experienced this in 2018. This type of settlement deal happened in al Sanamayn in March 2020, and in Umm Batinah in May 2021, and today in Daraa al Balad in August 2021. Disputes between the people of Daraa and the regime forces were always burning here and there, and the regime always stipulated the buses as the only solution. No matter how hard I try to describe it, it is harsher than words can express. Suddenly, you are faced with two options.
But this "battle" is not easy at all. It is a battle against fear, anxiety, disgust and despair. Many were defeated and left Daraa in succession. Daraa is that tree in autumn whose leaves die and fall slowly.Last May, the Assad regime organised presidential “elections”.
Bombing, destruction and — eventually — the green buses followed soon after. The siege began in June. More than 38,000 people, mostly women and children, became displaced. For two months, the regime has been doing only one thing: forcing its opponents out of the area through those green buses or killing them in Daraa.
The answer is easy. This regime is afraid of evidence of its crimes, afraid that the world will know what is happening in Syria. It wants us to die quietly. Colleagues were split into teams to cover several places in and out of the besieged area to be able to contact colleagues outside Syria. Everyone has to submit their notes and documents every day, to not postpone the work by even one day, because who knows? The regime forces might attack us before we send the last day's work.
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