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Cities in Revolutions This looks a quality project in documenting the Syrian revolution through what happened in six cities. Example: Zabadani

The coming assault on Idlib

"Worst of all, there is a  growing international consensus  that the regime is the best solution for the devastation it has wrought. The international community is now shifting its focus toward reconstruction, rehabilitating the regime through rewarding those responsible for the country’s devastation, and pressuring refugees to return to a country where their safety is far from assured." Is it impossible that one day, we see that ‘secular’, unveiled wife of Al-Assad in London or Washington, preparing the ground for a full rehabilitation of the regime? The coming assault on Idlib
In August 2011 the Syrian regime’s tanks occupied the city centre of Hama after a month-long siege which claimed the lives of more than 200 civilians. This is the famous revolutionary song  Get Out Bashar,   sung by thousands in mass protests  at the heart of Hama weeks before the tanks rolled in and still popular today. The other videos remind us of how it all was before the counterrevolution (with its internal and external forces) took over. (This subtitled version is not the full version)
"To call for "peace" with Assad is itself an indication of  failure  – not the military or moral failure of embattled rebels who are mostly made up of civilian volunteers, but the collective failure of the world, particularly those with the means to have acted, to stop Assad from carrying out genocide." The pisonous 'peace process' is an insult to Syrians