Mariana Morena

I do remember that morning one year ago today, in which the images of Assad's slaughter with chemical weapons over Ghoutta circulating across social networks, seemed to come from a horror movie. I had never seen anything just like that, even though we had been witnessing more than two years of killings by the 'Shabiha' in the Syrian neighborhoods, the kidnapping of activists and their atrocious torture in the dungeons of the regime, and the bombing of hospitals and precarious clandestine makeshift hospitals. Never such an ominous regime had struck me in account of its irrevocable will to massacre. The Syrian regime had been dictatorial for more than forty years, but in the last four it would deepen its fascist character beyond the limits of our logic and human sensibility. Any day, any time one would expect the machine to stop, one would expect Bashar saying "enough, we've killed enough", but no, the bombings haven't stopped, death hasn't stopped in Syria, not even the use of chemical weapons that the Nobel Peace Prize Obama established as an absurd "red line" to warn Bashar that he could not implement all that horror whatever the hell he wanted. But Bashar has continued killing children, women, elderly, unarmed civilians only because they committed the more reckless action of our world when, being weary of the lack of freedom, bread and social justice they took to the streets and squares about four years ago, to demand that Bashar and his regime should resign.

Almost four years now from the beginning of the revolution for freedom, and on the first anniversary of the genocidal attack with chemical weapons in Ghoutta, that massacred more than 1,400 civilians as they slept and left thousands with severe and irreversible damage, the Syrian People won't kneel. Long live its heroic struggle! The blood of their martyrs will have not been spilled in vain. The dictatorship will fall, along with all dictatorships that nowadays curtails the dignified life of the Arab peoples.