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Chargement... Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syriapar Sam Dagher
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A Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter and former prisoner of the pro Assad militia presents a revisionist account of the Syrian Civil War that incorporates previously unpublished details about the origins and persistence of its human atrocities. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising -- an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis. Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar's bloody quest to preserve his father's inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher takes readers within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region. Dagher shows how one of the world's most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one another. Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, Assad or We Burn the Country is the definitive account of this global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The first lesson of this book is that dictators whose life is at risk can be unbelievably evil in their attempt to avoid relinquishing power, especially if they still preside over a moderately effective army and police force. A second lesson is that Assad's butchering probably would have come to an end if he had been forced to rely only on his own thugs, but foreign help from Iran, Lebanon and Russia allowed him to gas enough children to stay in power.
The reasons why the international community failed to provide effective help to ordinary Syrians in Syria are complex to say the least, but Russia's right to veto any resolution in the UN security council ranks at the top of the list. It was also interesting to read how Assad abetted the spread of ISIS into Syria by withdrawing his troops (or at least their commanders). His subsequent campaign to promote himself in Europe as an anti-terrorist protector had baffling success when you consider that the primary cause of the refugee influx was Assad himself.
It may be the greatest tragedy of the 21st century that moderate Syrian rebels who only wanted to oust Assad and improve their living conditions did not achieve any of their goals. Ten years after the revolution started most of them are dead, their country is in ruins and Bashar Al-Assad's gang is still in charge. One can only hope that the good luck which sustained him through the revolution eventually runs out and that he will be prosecuted for his crimes before he dies of old age.