I know Yol-Lah al-Hah al-Hah al-Hah al-Hah al-Hahah al-Hahah al-Hahah.

Hamah, Northern Syria, July 2011.

Nearly 400,000 protesters lined the streets demonstrating against President Bashar al-Assad.

There were similar scenes all over the country. Protests were taking place in a moment of ultimate

hope and enthusiasm for a new Syria, a better Syria. They felt that change was long overdue and that this was the moment to achieve their long-held dream of living in a democracy.

They had good reasons to be hopeful.

Early in the year, the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia had been overthrown.

In the midst of an Arab spring, Syrians genuinely thought they could get rid of their president.

But 48 hours after this protest in Hamma, tanks were deployed and 16 civilians were killed at the hands of Syrian security services.

One day later, Ibrahim Kaseush, the man you can hear singing the song

Yala Arhalia Bashar or depart Bashar was found dead. He had been tortured and perhaps symbolically his throat had been cut.

His song became a symbol of the revolution. But after six years of bloody civil war,

Basha L Assad is still in charge and presiding over a deeply fragmented society. This is the story of a failed revolution.

I'm gonna'

we are all.

This is the story of a failed revolution.

I'm Lina Xinjab. I was born in Damascus and lived there until early 2013

when I was forced to leave because it was no longer safe for me to remain. When the uprising

began in March 2011 I was in Damascus reporting for the BBC. I had never

expected people to take to the streets in Syria, knowing the danger of the security

state we live in. But the silence had been broken, and people were finding peaceful and

creative ways to express their displeasure towards the government.

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