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Syria: From a Rogue State to a Failed State, Then to an Exporter of Terrorism
Since the Ba’ath coup in Syria and assuming power in 1963, Syria has become a police state par excellence. But the coup of Hafez al-Assad in 1970 transcended the horrific oppressive situation and shifted Syria into a farm whose fruits were picked up by limited families, especially from the Alawite sect to which Hafez al-Assad and the successor Bashar al-Assad belonged.
Hafez al-Assad had transformed Syria with his destructive policies into a rogue state. He had intervened militarily in Lebanon and had occupied it for about two decades. He had adversely affected the Palestinian issue and had caused severe rifts inside Palestinian political movement. He had ignited fighting among different Palestinian and Lebanese parties and factions. This is in addition to the systematic repression and assassinations he had practised against opponents inside Syria and Lebanon.
Bashar al-Assad, who hired the power in 2000 after the death of his father has converted Syria into a failed state, in particular, following 2011. His brutal dealing with the demonstrations throughout Syria since 2011, has caused a deep and broad cleavages in Syrian society. The methodical subjugation his apparatuses have been practising against dissenters turned the conflict into a fierce civil war that has been ravaging Syria since 2012.
Bashar al-Assad has transformed Syria into a Russian and Iranian protectorate. These both countries, in turn, have wreaked vengeance, death and destruction throughout the areas they have occupied. The Assad regime has brought dozens of Shiite militias to Syria to defend his regime. His supporters have said it since the first day of the demonstrations in Syria; “either Assad or we will burn the country”. Indeed, they have burned and devastated the country. They have killed more than half million people and have forced more than 13 million to flee their homes and have become immigrants in the neighbouring countries and in diaspora.
The Syrian regime has allowed Turkey to occupy many Syrian regions, killing thousands of innocent civilians, especially, Kurds, and displacing tens of thousands without any reaction worthy of mention. In short, Bashar al-Assad has completed his father’s mission and has transformed Syria from a rogue state to a failed and paralysed state.
In the latest new chapter of the Syrian calamity, Turkey has given Syria the characteristic of the exporting country of terrorism. This happened after Turkey has made thousands of the Syrian armed opposition merely professional mercenaries and hired on demand. Turkey has turned many factions of the armed Syrian opposition into employed soldiers and sent them to Libya to support the Brotherhood’s government in the Libyan capital.
On 15th of January, the Guardian newspaper published a report about the deployment of 2000 Syrian fighters to Libya to support the Muslim Brotherhood government in Tripoli led by the spoiled Turkish man, Fayez al-Sarraj. According to numerous news that have been disseminated recently by various media outlets, this number has recently reached up to 6,000 fighters. Indeed, the Syrian regime and the Syrian opposition are two sides of the same coin.
What a black fate, history and present drawn for Syria by the Ba’ath Party, Al-Assad family, and Erdogan's Turkey through its means from the Syrian opposition, specially, the parties of political Islam led by Muslim Brotherhood!? This black destiny covers about sixty years without the ‘free’ world moving one inch to stop this absurdity and farce.
By : Jwan Dibo
