Draw the Syrian flag? question for pupils to figure who with or against Assad

From your drawing I can guess if you are with or against Bashar al-Assad. That's what happened recently with Ammar, 10 year-old in his school in Damascus.

The teacher asked the pupils to draw the national flag of Syria, the boy was very smart to guess that arts teacher aimed to know who will draw the revolution flag.'' I've painted the regime flag,'' he said to Zaman Alwasl reporter.

''We knew it was a trick, for that always we talk about the achievements of the Free Syrian  Army in low voice,'' Ammar added.

As a result of the ongoing Syrian civil war, there are currently two different flags to represent the state. The incumbent government, led by Bashar al-Assad and the Ba'ath Party is using the red-white-black United Arab Republic flag in use since 1980 while the  the Syrian National Coalition re-adopted the green-white-black Independence flag in 2012.

'This is an examination in Nationalism,'' a pro-Assad mathematics teacher said, who was the first teacher to set this kind of manipulation on innocent children.

The regime schools in Damascus have welcomed the idea what raised fears amid the families.

Ammar case wasn't the only one, teachers of schools under the control of Assad's authorities have asked the children to draw the flag too. two children have drawn revolution flag, since that time, the children haven't attend the class since then, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.

 Meanwhile, 4 million Syrian children are suffering as a result of a horrific conflict – one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time - which is now stretching into its third year. Two million people have fled to neighboring countries, but many more remain in dire need of assistance, Save the Children Organization said.