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For a week straight now, there have been ongoing protests in the #Syria city of #Suwayda. I’d link to news, but it seems to be mostly reported via Twitter.
There have been on-and-off protests in Syria for years despite the brutal repression of the 2011 movement, but this length of protest is unprecedented since then, and the demands—the release of the 130,000 disappeared, the fall of the regime—are broad.
Honestly, I’m terrified for them
![Alex Rowell @alexjrowell• 9h
Women in #Syria's #Suwayda today chant,
"Bashar [al-Assad], you coward, the Syrian people will not be humiliated."
Unfathomable courage and spirit, after all these years of hell.
(Quote tweet of a post in Arabic with a video showing the scene described)](https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/957/966/851/857/926/original/1f3c06369da3a2e8.jpeg "Alex Rowell @alexjrowell• 9h
Women in #Syria's #Suwayda today chant,
\"Bashar [al-Assad], you coward, the Syrian people will not be humiliated.\"
Unfathomable courage and spirit, after all these years of hell.
(Quote tweet of a post in Arabic with a video showing the scene described)")
A bit of original reporting from #AFP, which quotes a correspondent in nearby Bosra al-Sham—but, again, it’s largely based on social media posts #syria #suwayda https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/26/anti-government-protests-shake-syrian-provinces-amid-anger-over-economy
This protestor’s sign in #Suwayda, shared on Twitter by a #Kurdish journalist from #Syria, pays tribute to Hevrin Khalaf in #Arabic. Khalaf was brutally murdered by a Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group during the 2019 Turkish invasion of northern Syria. These protestors, in other words, are protesting foreign-backed/sectarian/ #Islamist militarized rebels as well as #Assad, rebuking the former for claiming their anti-regime cause. It’s a dangerous and courageous position to take publicly
![Sardar Mila Drwish @serdar_melah
Translated from Arabic by Google
Hevrin Khalaf, a Kurdish politician who lost her life at the hands of the Syrian National Army factions during Turkey's occupation of areas in northern and eastern
Syria [quote tweet: photo of a protestor holding a handwritten sign in Arabic with the described slogan about Hevrin Khalaf]](https://spore.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/963/591/897/563/114/original/7f80205174466feb.jpeg "Sardar Mila Drwish @serdar_melah
Translated from Arabic by Google
Hevrin Khalaf, a Kurdish politician who lost her life at the hands of the Syrian National Army factions during Turkey's occupation of areas in northern and eastern
Syria [quote tweet: photo of a protestor holding a handwritten sign in Arabic with the described slogan about Hevrin Khalaf]")