Syria’s Unending Tragedy (K. P. Fabian, IDSA)

We know that the Egyptians spoke out demanding the fall of President Hosni Mubarak on 25 January 2011. We know that the attempt at self-immolation by the street vendor Tareq Bouazizi, marking the beginning of the demand for the fall of President Ben Ali of Tunisia, occurred on 17 December 2010. But we do not know exactly when the first public demonstration calling for the removal of Syrian President Basher al Assad occurred. That only shows that there is much ignorance about what is happening in, and to, Syria. That ignorance has been manufactured by propaganda and counter-propaganda.

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