On The 14th Anniversary Of The Syrian Revolution, The Syrian Army Is Dropping Flowers Instead Of Bombs
On Sunday, March 15, dozens of people gathered in Umayyad Square in the capital, Damascus, to celebrate the anniversary of the 2011 Revolution for the first time.
On the 14th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, the new Syrian army dropped flowers and leaflets with messages of peace instead of the bombs that Syrians had become accustomed to during the brutal 13-year civil war.
On Sunday, March 15, dozens of people gathered in Umayyad Square in the capital, Damascus, to celebrate the anniversary of the 2011 Revolution for the first time, and instead of the barrels of bombs that used to be dropped on civilians by former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the new government dropped flowers and messages of peace and unity.
In 2011, a series of pro-democracy protests and uprisings, known as the Arab Spring, swept through the Middle East.
Inspired by the uprisings known as the Arab Spring that swept through the Middle East, protests erupted in Syria on March 15, 2011, with Syrians demanding political reforms and an end to the decades-long Assad family rule.
The protests started as peaceful demonstrations after teenagers who painted anti-government graffiti were arrested and tortured.
But Assad's government responded violently, deploying security forces to suppress the protests leading the protests to evolve into an armed rebellion.
By mid-2011, soldiers who had defected from the Syrian military formed the Free Syrian Army (FSA) to fight against the regime, marking the transition from peaceful protests to a full-scale civil war.
The civil war lasted more than 13 years until rebel forces led by current president Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir Al-sham (HTS) toppled the Assad regime in a 12-day lightning offensive.
On the anniversary, people took to the streets in celebration, singing revolutionary songs and holding the new Syrian flag.
People said these flowers symbolized peace, Al Jazeera reported.
Celebrations then erupted in the evening in different cities, with people gathering in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama and Homs under the slogan "Peace Prevails, Hope Renewed".
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