Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian capital's biggest square has witnessed first protest ever throughout 44 years of Assad's family rule when tens of people asked release of their relatives who held captive by Islamist rebel group in Adra near Damascus.
Many pro-regime people relate to hostages at fighting battalions, gathered in Umayyad Square in Damascus, demanding Assad’s regime to be more serious in negotiation with the armed groups to release their relatives against releasing thousands of detainees in regime’s prisons. However Syrian regime ignored all those calls despite Battalions’ attempts to pressure it by sending videos of hostages’ plea the regime to release them.
Umayyad Square gathering is exceptional at many standards, as it was held in one of the most important and sensitive place in the capital, where the Army Staff Headquarter and Air force Intelligence situated, besides Official Syrian TV building, where the previous coups' statements used to announce before 1970, when Hafiz Assad had done the latest one.
Last year, armed battalions had controlled Adra Industrial area and took many of its “Shabiha”, soldiers and pro- regime people as hostages and killed hundreds of Shabih.
Regime has shown ignorance to its people and supporters' lives and fate, as it turned the blind eye to all calls for releasing them, while it did its best to release other non-Syrian hostages at any price like freeing the Iranian hostages and Hezbollah detainees.
The discrepancy between regime's interest and keenness in freeing foreign hostages and ignoring Syrian ones, caused hard feeling of pain and unfairness which pushed them to openly criticize regime, but latest sit-in was the first pro-regime gathering against regime’s acts.
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