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Kassioun Editorial 1204: Statement to the Syria People Towards a New Syria
Today, a dark page in the history of Syria and the Syrian people has been turned; a page in which an entire people was squeezed into its narrow margin, suffering all kinds of torment, oppression, deprivation, pain, displacement, poverty, and detention centers, while the main page was occupied by tyranny, corruption, plundering, and encroachment on people’s rights and dignity.
The Syrian people have traveled a long path of pain over the past years and decades. It is time for that path to end, and for the Syrian to look to the future eye to eye, with confidence and head held high, and with great hopes of rebuilding the country that is dear to its people, even if it has been unjust. Though it is not unjust, but those who have taken control of it are the unjust.
The hope that fills souls today is a hope charged with great potential and energy, and it should be a hope armed with caution, calm, wisdom, and reason; hope embraced by ardent, inflamed hearts, and carried by cool, wise minds.
The difficulties and challenges are enormous and huge, but Syrians are up to them. The main keyword to overcoming them is the unity of the Syrian people, their solidarity, mutual support, and their preservation of their state institutions, their compassion for one another, their transcendence of the mentality of revenge and retaliation, and their adherence to their deep fraternal legacy.
What our homeland demands of us today, as Syrians, is that we work together to secure a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, so that at this stage a unifying reference is formed whose function is to secure achieving a new constitution and free, fair, democratic elections, to enable the Syrian people to determine their own destiny, and to rely on UNSC Resolution 2254, which is still completely valid as a roadmap for a peaceful and smooth political transition towards a fully unified Syria, people and land.
The experiences of different peoples prove that the departure of authority does not mean the departure of the regime, and that the process of changing the regime in a radical and comprehensive way – politically, economically and socially – is a much more complex process than the mere departure of a president and the arrival of a new one.
The Syrian people deserve to see their struggles crowned with a real, complete victory. At the core of this victory is preventing the transition from one tyrant to another and from one plunderer to another. Therefore, as broad as the scope of current joy can be, it can also be temporary if the people do not actually move from the margins of history to its core through their actual assumption of power.
The actual assumption of power means having a comprehensive program for the day after. The distinguishing point in this program is the socioeconomic direction the country should take, and the essence and goal of this point should be true social justice, far from the savage liberalization that the previous authority implemented, and which various forces that will become part of the next authority promise to continue.
Another essential landmark is the Syrian people’s firm, deep-rooted position on the Palestinian cause as their cause, and their decisive position on the occupied Syrian Golan, a Syrian land that must be taken back by all means.
We, in the People’s Will Party, while we congratulate the Syrian people on turning a dark page in their history, and we hope that their eyes will enjoy the warrior’s rest that they are now living, we affirm that the struggle to achieve complete freedom for the Syrian people, to achieve social justice, to rebuild the country, and to return the displaced to it, is still long and arduous, and requires sincere loving efforts for Syria and its people, and in particular requires the many skills that forcibly left Syria; Syria today is waiting for all of them, and with great impatience.
The People’s Will Party
Damascus, Syria
8 December 2024
