Several Facebook pages have sprung up expressing Alawite unhappiness with Assad, mostly for being too soft on his opponents. Five Alawites have been detained for their involvement in the dissent, but the pages have continued. One, called Where Are They, focuses on Alawites who have disappeared during the fighting and whom the regime is accused of making scant effort to locate. We will no longer trade our blood in order for you to keep your rusting chair... You cannot close our mouths. We have had enough... There is no family that has not lost a son, and some have lost more. Towns and villages are strung with portraits of the dead. At funerals, which take place daily, tales of furious encounters between government officials and grieving relatives are commonplace... There’s a sense of desperation. The regime tells them it is winning but on the contrary we are getting into a worse situation with no sign of light at the end of the tunnel... washingtonpost/world/middle_east/syrias-assad-thinks-he-is-winning-he-could-be-wrong/2014/09/08/09c5044e-a6ca-45d0-91a8-c9eacd4c92f8_story.html
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:23:00 +0000
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