Assad’s allies, preoccupied by other conflicts — Russia’s war in Ukraine and the wars between Israel and the Iran-backed militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas — appeared reluctant to forcefully intervene.
Members of Victoria’s Syrian community rallied in front of the B.C. legislature on Sunday to celebrate the end of more than 50 years of iron rule by the Assad family after Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country.
The country’s 59-year-old president fled Syria, bringing to a close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers. “He should be held accountable for his crimes in Syria,” she said in an interview in Arabic through a translator.
His uncle, a long-time Lebanese resident returning to Syria for a visa renewal, was arbitrarily arrested and detained in the Saydnaya military prison in the summer of 2013, Abed said. Abed, who has been glued to the news and has barely slept since the insurgency began sweeping across the country, said everyone is waiting to see what will happen next.
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