Thousands of people in northwestern Syria went to streets on Friday to demand the end of Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian rule on the thirteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.
The demonstrators in more than 35 towns and villages demanded the overthrow of the regime and held the perpetrators of crimes against the Syrian people accountable.
The displaced people also took part in demonstrations in which thousands participated, most notably the city of Idlib, and the cities of Binnish, Taftanaz and Maaro Misrin in the north-eastern countryside of Idlib, Jericho and Jisr al-Shughur in the western countryside of Idlib, and Azaz. Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Jarabulus and Al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
The sources confirmed that the demonstrators renewed the demands of the first revolution, which called for the overthrow of the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, and those who participated with him in the war against the Syrian people calling for freedom, holding war criminals accountable in international courts, and revealing the fate of detainees and forcibly disappeared people.
The sources indicated that the demonstrators also called for the overthrow of Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly the Al-Nusra Front), the dissolution of the Shura Council, the dissolution of the General Security Service (HTS's security arm) and the release of prisoners and holding investigators involved in torture cases accountable, with the aim of sparing the Idlib region from chaos.
As the conflict, now in its 13th year, reached a stalemate, the Syrian regime reclaimed large swathes of lost territory with the help of its key allies in Russia and Iran in recent years.
The U.N. estimates that some 300,000 civilians died during the first decade of the uprising, while half of the pre-war population of 23 million were displaced.
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