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 Topic: Graffiti boys who lit Syria war brace for regime attack

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  • Graffiti boys who lit Syria war brace for regime attack
     OP - June 19, 2018, 07:29 PM
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    "Your turn, Doctor." Seven years after scribbling the anti-Assad slogan that sparked Syria's war, activists-turned-rebels Moawiya and Samer Sayasina are bracing themselves for a regime assault on their hometown Daraa.

    They were just 15 when they and friends, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions they saw on television, daubed a groundbreaking message on one of the southern city's walls in the spring of 2011.

    "We'd been following the protests in Egypt and Tunisia, and we saw them writing slogans on their walls like 'Freedom' and 'Down with the regime'," said Moawiya, now 23.

    "We got a can of spray paint and we wrote 'Freedom. Down with the regime. Your turn, Doctor'," referring to President Bashar al-Assad, a trained ophthalmologist.

    Within two days, security forces stormed their homes and detained the boys, who are unrelated but share a common family name.

    "They tortured us to find out who had provoked us to write it," Moawiya said.
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    https://sg.news.yahoo.com/graffiti-boys-lit-syria-war-brace-regime-attack-024435232.html
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  • Graffiti boys who lit Syria war brace for regime attack
     Reply #1 - June 22, 2018, 04:01 AM
    Fascinating read.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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