{"id":290,"date":"2011-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive new report on the crisis in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nExclusive new report on the crisis in Syria<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nPlease Click Here to Access full Report<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian crisis grows worse by the day. A pan-Arab
\nrevolution, having toppled the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, and thrust Libya
\nand Yemen into civil war, now threatens the dictatorship in Damascus. But the
\nstakes are high: the Assad regime has ruled the country for four decades, and
\nSyria suffers from deep internal splits.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn one side, demonstrators take to the streets to demand
\nfreedom and democracy, at the cost of their own lives. At least 1300 people
\nhave been killed. On the other side, the supporters of the Baath regime fear
\nthat President Bashar el-Assad’s fall will lead to instability, chaos and – in
\na worst case scenario – civil war. Syria’s future is clouded by a brutal
\ndictatorship, a fragile economy, a weak civil society, a splintered opposition,
\nand severe sectarian tensions. But today’s situation cannot last.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn this crucial moment, many Syrians look back to the
\ncountry’s history. This is not the first uprising to threaten the Assad regime.
\nIn the late 1970s, country-wide protests erupted against the dictatorship of
\nHafez el-Assad, the father of Syria’s current president. They were led by both
\nsecular groups, Islamists and independent civil society activists. That time,
\nthe opposition was crushed with brutal force, a gruesome massacre in the city
\nof Hama in 1982 marking the end of the rebellion.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is in the shadow of this failed revolution that Syria has
\nagain risen against its rulers, and the lessons from that era help determine
\nthe actions of both the regime and the opposition today. In The Ghosts of Hama
\n– one of the first reports about the current uprising in Syria – Aron Lund
\nprovides a description of the situation in Syria today, and thirty years ago.
\nComparing the two Syrian revolutions reveals both similarities and differences,
\nand points to the major risks that Syria faces. The report can also be
\ndownloaded on http:\/\/silc.se\/?p=874.\n<\/p>\n

\nAron Lund is an editorial writer for the Swedish newspaper
\nUpsala Nya Tidning. His book, Drömmen om Damaskus (The Dream of Damascus),
\nwhich deals with Syria’s regime and opposition movements, was recently
\npublished by SILC Förlag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nPlease Click Here to Access full Report<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian crisis grows worse by the day. A pan-Arab
\nrevolution, having toppled the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, and thrust Libya
\nand Yemen into civil war, now threatens the dictatorship in Damascus. But the
\nstakes are high: the Assad regime has ruled the country for four decades, and
\nSyria suffers from deep internal splits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}