At 82, the opponent accustomed to Syrian prisons is fighting a new fight.
“For months, we have been hiding in the face of the coronavirus,”
quipped Michel Kilo, a refugee in France.
But beyond the health constraints, it is still and always Syria that worries him: his country, which he had to flee at the end of 2011, just a few months after the start of the revolt against Bashar al-Assad.
Soon ten years of exile for this Christian intellectual from Damascus, long engaged in the direction of a revolution, which failed to bring
"freedom and dignity"
, his first slogans.
"The revolutionaries and the regime, we have all lost
," Michel Kilo notes bitterly.
The regime refused a peaceful solution at the start of the revolution, and the revolution lost its unity, undermined by the influence of the Islamists.
They came with their weapons, they absorbed the revolution of freedom to lead a counter-revolution. ”
"We were naive"
“We were naïve. We had to find a solution with the regime, before the inter-Syrian conflict
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