New PDF release: Revolt in Syria: Eye-witness to the Uprising

By Stephen Starr

ISBN-10: 1849041970

ISBN-13: 9781849041973

In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad instructed the Wall highway magazine that Syria used to be sturdy and immune from riot. within the months that undefined, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many loss of life by the hands of the regime. Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose future has been formed by means of the country for nearly fifty years. In conversations with humans from all strata of Syrian society, Starr attracts jointly and is smart of views illustrating why Syria, with its a variety of sects and religions, was once so vulnerable to violence and civil strife. via his precise entry to a rustic principally bring to a halt from the foreign media in the course of the unrest, Starr grants compelling first hand testimony from either those that suffered and benefited such a lot by the hands of the regime. rebel in Syria info why many Syrians sought after Assad s executive to stick because the risk of civil struggle loomed huge, the long-standing hole among the nation equipment and its humans and why the rustic s adolescence stood up decisively for freedom. Starr additionally units out the positions adhered to by means of the rustic s minorities and explains why many Syrians think that enforced regime swap may precipitate a region-wide clash. This revised and up-to-date variation incorporates a bankruptcy bringing it as much as the tip of 2013, and examines the stories of these who've fled the struggling with to Turkey and elsewhere.

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