Excellent two so far now?,just put yourself in that little boys shoes.......you and i've no real worries do we after seeing what he's gone through.
Hope you don’t mind me adding this to the conversation Abood Hamam: 'A picture can kill you or save your life' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53486838
It’s Amazing to think that President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma ( English ) were such a lovely couple before the conflict and the death of his Father.. Bashar was once a London eye surgeon and known For his kindness and caring way.. He had a couple of Brothers who were from the military who were pure evil but Bashar was appointed to Reluctantly take over from his Father.. His Mother was evil too, so much so that when Bashar was in power she accused him of weakness and betrayal of his Fathers name etc telling him to man up.. Too think it really all started conflict wise allegedly, when some school kids painted some slogans against the Assad regime And were rounded up by the secret police taken away and tortured, I think they were like 14 year olds.. Hence there was then a big demonstration and the military were instructed to use live ammo on them. The rest is history albeit recent history .. I think the program I watched on it was called a Very dangerous Dynasty.. A BBC Docu.. X
I'm not going to suggest that the Syrian Regime is spotlessly clean. Or deny that some pretty nasty things go on behind closed doors. That would be silly. But 80% of the world has the same shady/cruel/immoral issues...and the other 20% aren't completely clean either. Life in Syria is not all how we’re told though. As I’ve already said, I LIVED in Damascus, not in a hotel, but in a small apartment shoulder to shoulder with ordinary Syrians. I came home (by chance) just as it all kicked off. I loved it and the people, many of whom I'm still in regular contact with via. social media and email (something you'd think wasn't possible under such a controlling Regime?). Life was good there. But if you listen to our media and read the propaganda, you'll get a thoroughly different impression of life in Syria. Take this photo for example (I think I've posted it before?). These are some of my friends and colleagues (mixed Christian and Muslim btw) on an evening out in the middle of Damascus (I recognise the restaurant). It's wasn't taken while I was there, but taken (and sent to me) at the exact same time as our news channels were reporting that the Regime was barrel bombing districts and gassing the Damascus population, conducting genocide. Make your own mind up (I know you will anyway) what it tells you about your perception of 'the truth'.
You have posted the picture before, I remember because it was such a happy photo compared to others I had seen
Yeah...but I think you're missing the point. Neither of these photos reflect the image most people have (as a result of our media) of Syrian life.
There must have been some sort of trouble around Damascus in the mid to late 70's, when I was traveling over there, the military would stop all the lorries on the hills above Damascus on the road in from Homs and only let us down into Damascus in convoy with a military escort, i'm not sure if these hills were the Syrian end of the Golan Heights where the trouble with Israel flared up. I always found the Syrians and Jordanians very friendly people. Steve
It was all kicking off around that time. Hafez al-Assad (Bashar's Dad) came to power in 1970. The '6 day war' was only 3 years earlier, and 'Yom Kippur war' only 3 years later, so anywhere near Golan, would have been a very touchy area to pass through.
I watched the last part last night, part 5, it was all about when ISIS turned up... All I can say is ... I hate religion with even more of a passion than I did before watching it, if that’s Actually possible.. X
