Livestream out of Syria

SS have a few questions myself

- what sort of country/government does the anti-regime people want once Assad does go? given that democracy (in it's western sense) has never worked in the middle east, do you think people would want a military rule? or a sharia law like saudi?

- are there any anti-Assad supporters who are non sunni e.g. christians/alawaite community? is there a worry that when Assad does go (and he will), there will be violence against non-sunni people?

- how is the FSA/anti-regime able to convince non-sunnis to support them and not to fear? otherwise there will be sectarian civil war.

This a protest in Jableh:

This a protest in Msiaf also an Alawaitie city yesterday:

Al-Salamie an Ismaili(a kind of Alawitis) in a protest:


Edit:Also Banias:
 
Sounds of explosions and gunfire is heard in Babaa Amr since 4 hours until now, are the rebels back?
 
Today in Damascus, Kafarsouseh this sign was risen by a Homsi guy saying: Bashar you though you can get rid of us by making us migrate from our homes, did you really think you'll get rid of us stupid? we'll demonstrate in Damascus, we'll also demonstrate in Mars if we had to, we are coming Bashar, to your own palace.
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A picture of the protest today in Kafarsouseh, Damascus, I was present there, the security forces fired at us at the end of the protest, just came back safe. :D
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A video of the protest of thousand in Kafarsouseh, Damascus, the capital city of Syria:

Also, 9 killed in Barzeh, Damascus today!
 
Another video for the protest. note saying this is one of the largest protests I've ever been to.
 
Syrian Scholes- can you update us on this morning's blasts in Damascus?


A first explosion occurred shortly before 08:00 (05:00 GMT) as people headed into work.

The first blast was apparently to attract people to the scene and was quickly followed by a second, much bigger explosion, a local journalist who spoke to eyewitnesses told the BBC.

Evil...evil bastards. This is something AQ and the like did all the time.
 
55 killed and 372 injured in today's explosions.

What can we do?
 
Syrian Scholes- can you update us on this morning's blasts in Damascus?

"peaceful" rebels would never kill innocent civilians...assad must have done it to pin the blame on "freedom fighting" rebels. :wenger:

Graphic pics, although supporters of these rebels should definitely see whom they support.

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"peaceful" rebels would never kill innocent civilians...assad must have done it to pin the blame on "freedom fighting" rebels. :wenger:

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Whoever it was, any insurgeny that has emerged is entirely Assad's doing. He should've enacted reforms years ago rather than wait.
 
He had already enacted few constitutional reforms a couple of months ago but the rebels were having none of it and want to be in power. This is nothing more than a power grab being attempted by these rebels.

Do you think a group supposedly demanding "democracy, freedom and human rights" would carry out bomb blasts in the middle of civilians ?
 
He had already enacted few constitutional reforms a couple of months ago but the rebels were having none of it and want to be in power. This is nothing more than a power grab being attempted by these rebels.

Do you think a group supposedly demanding "democracy, freedom and human rights" would carry out bomb blasts in the middle of civilians ?

A few months ago was too little too late. How about a few years ago so his public would have realized he was serious and not just doing it to spare his regime's survival.
 
The reform announcement was done on 20 June last year (reading from wiki), but it only completed 26 Feb this year with the constitutional reform elections.

What is undoubtedly correct is that the Assad government missed a chance to reform the country in 00-01 Damascus Spring, though it is often said that the pro reform Bashar was overruled by hardliners still that is no excuse.

The problem with Syria is that it is an armed insurgency and civil war on sectarian fault lines. There is no denying that. There is history of earlier insurgency by islamist extremists during the 70s in Syria, which was brutally put down by the earlier regime. The war will continue as neither government nor rebel regimes want any convergence, and will ultimately lead to ouster of Assad following foreign intervention. Whether that will create a better country is debatable.
 
"peaceful" rebels would never kill innocent civilians...assad must have done it to pin the blame on "freedom fighting" rebels. :wenger:

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This explosion was not done be the rebels, it doesn't help them in any ways all the people killed were civilians!
 
The reform announcement was done on 20 June last year (reading from wiki), but it only completed 26 Feb this year with the constitutional reform elections.

What is undoubtedly correct is that the Assad government missed a chance to reform the country in 00-01 Damascus Spring, though it is often said that the pro reform Bashar was overruled by hardliners still that is no excuse.

The problem with Syria is that it is an armed insurgency and civil war on sectarian fault lines. There is no denying that. There is history of earlier insurgency by islamist extremists during the 70s in Syria, which was brutally put down by the earlier regime. The war will continue as neither government nor rebel regimes want any convergence, and will ultimately lead to ouster of Assad following foreign intervention. Whether that will create a better country is debatable.

The 80s not 70s uprising was not Islamist, it was armed, and only in Hama, today's uprising is everywhere in Syria.
 
He had already enacted few constitutional reforms a couple of months ago but the rebels were having none of it and want to be in power. This is nothing more than a power grab being attempted by these rebels.

Do you think a group supposedly demanding "democracy, freedom and human rights" would carry out bomb blasts in the middle of civilians ?

First of all, as I said this bombing is not done by the rebels, after the explosion many civilians clos to the place of the bombing were killed by policemen and were carried to the place of the explosion, also many were arrested on of them is my cousin who was going to his work which was close to the place, plus this explosion is too big for the rebels to do, they don't have that much power.
 
A few months ago was too little too late. How about a few years ago so his public would have realized he was serious and not just doing it to spare his regime's survival.

Tbf, he hasn't done any reforms in the past year, so I don't know where Vidared is coming with the talks of reforms, nothing changed.
 
Also had a drive around Damascus yesterday to see how the people are reacting, first went to Al-Mazzeh fields, on the walls everywhere revolutionary chants were written, also saw two young guys posting some papers on the wall talking about freedom and about a guy who was killed in his apartment infront of his mother by the government and the government took the body so people won't make a demonstration at the funeral, the rage of the people was noticed everywhere, 99% of people there are against Bashar, then went to Kafarsouseh and I went to Demo with 2 of my friends, we were about 6000, with so much rage, it was the fuenral of 2 guys killed by the explosion(if it was done by the rebels why would the people protest at the fuenral?), then wen to Al-Shaghour also a huge protest at the fuenral of 1 of the people killed by the explosion, also in Bab Srijeh, then at night went to Al-Midan, also 99% of people there are against Bashar, and we had a nice night Demo before finishing the day at Al-Malki where nothing is happening there, it's like another city.
 
If you want to see peaceful protests I posted around 20 Videos of some of the big protests around Syria, you can see it's peaceful and most of Syrians are anticipating in it even though it holds great danger for their lives, for those who are against the protestors, isn't it a right to protest against all the shit the government put us through? also when 500 thousand gathered in a square in Hama for 4 weeks while the security forces were out, why no one died? why does my friends there talk to me about how peaceful Demo's were there and how no crimes happened in the absence of Assad's thugs? why when the army went to Hama more than 300 were killed in a day? Why did they cut the neck of the protests singer? What did he do?
 
This is how rebels attack(only by Klashinkof), This is in Baba Amr, they have no bombs(only some homemade bombs) and some RPGs they have no real strong weapons they fight with will power, and also when the rebels attack you can see people are happy about the attack and no civilians are killed!
 
Also what can you say about a regime that biseige protests inside the mosque and kill people while they are inside a Mosque? What can you say about a regime the kills university students inside their dorms just for organizing peaceful protests?
 
Barzeh live on JSC Mubashar right now, amazing protest, also protests started today in Damascus, everywhere in Damascus.
 
Barzeh live on JSC Mubashar right now, amazing protest, also protests started today in Damascus, everywhere in Damascus.

Here's the protest:

Plus 5 protests in Al-Mazeh until now, 3 in Kafarsouseh(less than usual because of the high presence of security forces), more than 5 in Al-Midan+Al-Zahira, 2 in Al-Shaghour, 1 in Al Muhajrin, 5 in Al-Qadam+Al-Assali, 1 in Al-Qaboun, 1 in Rukn Eddin, 1 in Masakin Barzi, and many others, still many to come throughout the day.
 
This explosion was not done be the rebels, it doesn't help them in any ways all the people killed were civilians!

It does help them...it increases the level of angst/fear/tension and not to mention, adds further to the notion of Assad losing grip. Acts like this add to the gradual breakdown of everyday life.

With the press making statements like...the rebels are no longer attacking the outskirts, but they are now striking in the heart of Damascus. Only a matter of time before Bashar completely loses control, and is driven away.

I have nothing against Syrians wanting to overthrow a dictator, but lets not kid ourselves that every time something like this happens, it is a state sponsored conspiracy.
 
Also forgot to mention that the dead body of some people who were arrested in some protests and was still arrested, which means the the government killed those and they throw them in the place of the explosion.
 
It does help them...it increases the level of angst/fear/tension and not to mention, adds further to the notion of Assad losing grip. Acts like this add to the gradual breakdown of everyday life.

With the press making statements like...the rebels are no longer attacking the outskirts, but they are now striking in the heart of Damascus. Only a matter of time before Bashar completely loses control, and is driven away.

I have nothing against Syrians wanting to overthrow a dictator, but lets not kid ourselves that every time something like this happens, it is a state sponsored conspiracy.

Not sure about that. I'm not particularly keen on Iraq-style chaos in Syria, where I have to remind you large stocks of WMD do exist. The fear of WMD falling to the hands of Islamic extremists may lift some of the Western pressure on Bashar, which I believe is exactly why the opposition often blames these bombings on Bashar's regime.
 
It does help them...it increases the level of angst/fear/tension and not to mention, adds further to the notion of Assad losing grip. Acts like this add to the gradual breakdown of everyday life.

With the press making statements like...the rebels are no longer attacking the outskirts, but they are now striking in the heart of Damascus. Only a matter of time before Bashar completely loses control, and is driven away.

I have nothing against Syrians wanting to overthrow a dictator, but lets not kid ourselves that every time something like this happens, it is a state sponsored conspiracy.

I think those explosions helps Assad's regime way more, it helps transform the world public opinion and get rid of some of the arrested revolution activist bodies who were killed and no one heard about, plus why do this explosions only happen when there are observers whether from the Arab League or the UN? Do you think the rebels are stupid?
 
Also many streets were closed all around Damascus yesterday, and security forces were everywhere in Damascus so I think this explosion gave Bashar an excuse for spreading his security forces more widely all around Damascus.
 
Amazing thing happened today, while a protest was held in Al-Houleh in Homs suburbs, a tank attacked the city, and the people ran away then within 5 seconds they refilled the square, amazing indeed.
 
The 80s not 70s uprising was not Islamist, it was armed, and only in Hama, today's uprising is everywhere in Syria.

It was armed Islamist insurgency in the 70s, correct it was in Hama and was crushed in the early 80s before it spread elsewhere.
 
It was armed Islamist insurgency in the 70s, correct it was in Hama and was crushed in the early 80s before it spread elsewhere.

It wasn't going to spread, we don't like islamist we feel bad for what happened to them in the 80s because most of the people that died were innocent civilians more than 50 thousands died, and women were raped friends from Hama said that for 10 years people couldn't find a girl that wasn't raped there, and that was a crim from Al-Assad family.