Anti-Assad Syrians in diaspora celebrate fall of government

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Anti-Assad Syrians in diaspora celebrate fall of government


Millions of Syrians who had been forcibly displaced outside the country have taken to social media to celebrate the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s decades’ long rule over the country on 8 December.

“Oh God, I cannot stop crying. I am imagining the day I go back,” Human Rights Activist Rima Flihan writes on her Facebook page.

Syria has seen the world’s largest refugee crisis, according to the UNHCR. The organisation estimates that around 6.6 million Syrians were forced to flee their homes since 2011.

“How lonely is this feeling of happiness when we are all scattered [across the world]”, one user on Facebook posted.

As updates keep coming in until the early hours of 8 December, many say they cannot sleep.

“How does one sleep, when their nation is being liberated,” one user says.

Most have expressed their disbelief at the fast pace of events.

As the opposition forces arrived in Damascus, many users posted videos of themselves celebrating, and shedding tears of joy.

Many celebrated especially when news came out that opposition forces took over the notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus, and freed tens of thousands of political detainees held there. “This is the day we all waited for,” one user writes.

“Syria is now for Syrians,” another says.

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