(Zaman Al Wasl)- Protests against deteriorating living conditions and the government corruption have renewed for the second day in Sweida, Syria’s only majority-Druze province, local activists said Thursday.
The state-run news agency reported Wednesday that a few people gathered in a square in the center of Sweida and started chanting: “We want to live. We want to live.”
The protesters spread in several towns, including the key town of Shahbaa.
“This spike in goods and food prices coincides with a sharp fall in the exchange rate of the Syrian pound against the US dollar. In the past few days, the exchange rate hit SYP1000 against $1,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Sweida has been spared the same scale of devastating violence, fighting and mass detainment that has rocked communities elsewhere in the country over the course of Syria's nine-year civil war.
The civil war in Syria began in early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on protesters with unexpected ferocity, which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions.
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