Wednesday, 23. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 23, 2011 at 12:41:00 PM CET
Syria's Revolt: How Graffiti Stirred an Uprising
The words have been repeated from Tunisia to Egypt, from Yemen to Bahrain. "The people want the regime to fall" — the mantra of revolution. And so, last week, after 15 kids wrote those words on a wall in the agricultural town of Dara'a in southern Syria, the local governor decided to come down hard. The young people — all under 17 — were thrown in jail. The punishment stunned the town and, suddenly, Syria — so confidently authoritarian — got its first strong taste of rebellion in what is called the Arab Spring.
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