Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar · Twitter · 2024-12-08 05:34 UTC

Syrians have the right to celebrate the fall of the House of Assad without being lectured by non-Syrians about the reality of their future. Maybe some of you need a reminder, but Assad wasn’t just your run-of-the-mill dictator. Not only did he run a police state of a frightening degree, but he also burned down his country to stay in power, destroying entire cities and killing hundreds of thousands of Syrians to keep his regime in place. Let people who have had family members murdered, tortured, and imprisoned by the state have a moment of relief and celebration. It doesn’t mean they’re naive about Syria’s future.