From peaceful revolution to a murderous proxy war – Syria 11 years after the revolution
Dar’aa, March 15, 2011 – Today, eleven years ago in a Southwestern town in Syria, a group of young adolescents scrawled anti-government slogans on a school wall, which mocked and ridiculed Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. What started off as juvenile shenanigans, rapidly evolved into a wave of demonstrations, following the boys’ subsequent arrest and brutal torture, which spread across the whole country and ignited a full-fledged revolution.