Bringing Syria back to the era before 2011 is not possible
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – As the Syrian war is entering its 12th year, the country is still suffering from the impacts affected all aspects of the lives of the Syrian citizens.
What made matters worse was the intervention of the regional and international forces, whether politically or militarily, into the Syrian crisis.
The intransigent mentality the Syrian government adopted in dealing with the protests had, and is still having, a devastative role.
While the role of the opposition, founded later, was worse than that of the government as it sought the support of external states and adopted an Islamist rhetoric which cancels all communities of the countryside but the Arab and Islam.
“Eleven years have passed since the launch of the Syrian uprising, but no solutions to the Syrian crisis loom on the horizon that will end the crisis with the participation of all parties,” the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum Abdi, tweeted yesterday.
“The uprising of March 12 [launched in Kurdish-majority areas in 2004] and the protests of March 15 crumbled the wall of fear in Syria, and Syrians no longer accept the exclusion policy,” Abdi said.
For her part, the president of the Executive Committee of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmad, said “11 years of Syrian popular movement that began in March 2011 against tyranny & centralization.”
In a tweet, Ilham Ahmad added that the reasons behind not reaching a solution to the Syrian crisis is because of the government’s intransigence & the dominance of Islamism, which aborted chances of solution.
Ilham Ahmad stressed the importance to unite the democratic national opposition to lead the country to a better future.
While Saleh Muslim, member of the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), said “Any hope of bringing Syria back to the era before 2011 is not possible, and the Syrian government has no choice but to participate in the political decision. This is possible through the projects presented by the Democratic Autonomous Administration.”
In an exclusive statement to North Press, Muslim added that the overlapping interests of “the influential countries in the Syrian crisis impede, to some extent, its solution, and that the political decision is not the decision of the Syrian government, but is linked to the countries that influence it, such as the Russians, Iran and other powers.”
In general, observers believe that Syria has not witnessed great stability due to the continuation of international and regional tensions over what the desired political solution is, and the deterioration of economic and living conditions.