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Arbella Bet-Shlimon<p>This protestor’s sign in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Suwayda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Suwayda</span></a>, shared on Twitter by a <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Kurdish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kurdish</span></a> journalist from <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Syria</span></a>, pays tribute to Hevrin Khalaf in <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Arabic</span></a>. 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/ <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Islamist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Islamist</span></a> militarized rebels as well as <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Assad</span></a>, rebuking the former for claiming their anti-regime cause. It’s a dangerous and courageous position to take publicly</p>
Arbella Bet-Shlimon<p>A bit of original reporting from <a href="https://spore.social/tags/AFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AFP</span></a>, which quotes a correspondent in nearby Bosra al-Sham—but, again, it’s largely based on social media posts <a href="https://spore.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>syria</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/suwayda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>suwayda</span></a> <a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/26/anti-government-protests-shake-syrian-provinces-amid-anger-over-economy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amp.theguardian.com/world/2023</span><span class="invisible">/aug/26/anti-government-protests-shake-syrian-provinces-amid-anger-over-economy</span></a></p>
Arbella Bet-Shlimon<p>For a week straight now, there have been ongoing protests in the <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Syria</span></a> city of <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Suwayda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Suwayda</span></a>. I’d link to news, but it seems to be mostly reported via Twitter.</p><p>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.</p><p>Honestly, I’m terrified for them</p>
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