The normalization of the Arab countries with the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, has raised the concern of millions of Syrians who live in displacement camps near the border strip with Turkey.
Yesterday, Sunday, the Arab League announced the return of the Syrian regime to it, after more than 12 years of freezing its membership due to its use of excessive violence against civilians who went out to demand freedom and dignity.
With the acceleration of normalization processes, the Syrian scene is becoming increasingly complex, and the unknown future that awaits the region outside the control of the Syrian regime in Idlib and the countryside of Aleppo has become an obsession that haunts millions there.
Global Justice Syria News toured a camp for the displaced near the town of Sarmada, near the border with Turkey, north of Idlib, and met displaced Syrians from Homs and Hama.
The normalization with the Syrian regime was a shock to all those we interviewed, as they expressed their great frustration with what happened in the Arab League.
The sixty-year-old, Hassan Abdel Wahed, wondered about the reason for countries’ rapprochement with the Syrian regime and their love for Bashar al-Assad, despite all the crimes he committed.
Abdel Wahed recalled dropping barrel bombs on residents of the cities and towns of Homs countryside, and the bombing of Eastern Ghouta with chemical weapons.
He said: “What have we done for this world? 12 years of war, killing, destruction and displacement. Instead of holding the criminal accountable, the Arab League honors him and restores relations with him.”
Abdel Wahed, who lost two of his sons in a previous bombardment by the regime forces, stressed that the Syrians have no choice but to continue, considering that the cost of returning to the Assad regime will be much greater than the continuation of the movement against it.
For his part, the young Ghassan Al-Masry says that he grew up in the shadow of the revolution and it is unacceptable for him to return to the rule of tyranny and oppression after he tasted the taste of freedom.
Ghassan criticized the silence of the United States of America and the countries that described themselves as friends of the Syrian people, regarding normalization with the regime, and their lack of any reaction to that.
He expressed his shock that the US administration allowed normalization with the regime despite its knowledge of its crimes and its knowledge that the Assad regime is the arm of Iran and Russia in the region.
Ghassan concluded his conversation with us by pointing out that the rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad will lead to unprecedented waves of migration towards Europe, since the northwestern region of Syria includes more than 4 million displaced people from various Syrian governorates who have refused reconciliation with the regime.
