People of Raqqa vow rebellion against ISIS, no more servility

Raqqa city, which is completely under ISIS’s control, witnesses these days disturbance and tension inside the state, as news is circulated about cooperation between one of the biggest tribes in the region and many military groups and battalions, to attack ISIS’s centers and kick them out of the city.

“people in Raqqa have fed up of ISIS and its acts in the city and against its people, every day we wake up on news of slaughtering one of our people, cutting their hand, or lashing others in public squares in the city or the countryside without providing any evidence for their decisions, which are usually taken for personal benefits”, A sheikh from al-Brij tribe reported to Zaman Alwasl.

The Sheikh adds that Al-raqqa’s tribes are somehow responsible for enabling ISIS to control the city and now it is their responsibility to throw them out of it. He revealed that his tribe cooperates with many fighting battalions to start the “second revolution” of Raqqa, against the regime which has occupied their city under Islamic cover. He insists on the importance of support by other people in the city to help rebels in their battle against injustice and strangers.

Activists from Raqqa have initiated a campaign called “Raqqa is silently killed” to draw attention to crimes of ISIS in the city, aiming to gathering effort to find a revolutionary body able to return the city to the right track.

Abo Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, an activist and one of the campaign’s founders, resembled what happens in Raqqa these day to a play, where suppressing forces disguised in revolutionary and Islamic agenda, practicing ugly actions, he called to work together to reveal what those forces do and their real faces, besides controllers behind the scene.

“Actions were not limited to virtual world, as it started on ground as well, were many activists wrote captions on walls in the city and countryside, against ISIS, a demonstration was organized in Almansoor Street, which was followed with arresting 17 activists by ISIS” Al-Raqqawi added.

It worth mentioning that Zaman Alwasl was the first to highlight the conflict between ISIS and al-Brij tribe, when many people from the tribe, who joined ISIS, announced their defection from the State, after disagreement between them following arresting a lady from the tribe because she did not were a scarf “Alhijab”.

Translation by Yusra Ahmed

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