The protest from southern Syria does not directly threaten the power of Bashar al-Assad, but it highlights his great difficulties in winning the post-war battle. For the past four days, one hundred to two hundred Syrians have been demonstrating daily in Sweida, the main city of the eponymous southern province, populated mainly by Druze, a minority hitherto neutral in the bloody conflict opposing, since 2011, Assad and his enemies. Their demands are both economic and political, and they are expressed peacefully.
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"It is the return to square one of the revolution in 2011 , welcomes the opponent Haytham Manna, based in Geneva and originally from this region bordering Jordan. It is the revenge of peace activists, not just the Druze. In Daraa too, the cradle of our revolution, demonstrators have been taking to the streets for a month , "added this opposition official in contact with Druze officials responsible for the protest.
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