Understanding how Syria's peaceful uprising became a civil war

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Inspired by the Arab Spring, peaceful protests began in Syria in early 2011. However, a complex civil war followed which has lasted over a decade and involved many other countries. Lina Sinjab, a BBC Middle East correspondent, explains how the conflict in her native country began. From the arrest and torture of protesting teenagers in Daraa to the rise of the Islamic State (IS), the last 12 years have devastated the country and inflicted immense suffering on the Syrian people. Is there an end to war in sight?

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0:00.0	All episodes of my Indian Life seasons 1 to 3 are available to binge in full right now.
0:06.6	That's Kalki Presents My Indian Life from the BBC World Service.
0:10.8	Just search for my Indian Life wherever you found this podcast.
0:18.8	Hello and welcome to the Explanation from the BBC World Service.
0:23.2	This is where we press polls on the busy 24-hour news cycle
0:27.4	and dig a bit deeper behind the headlines.
0:31.4	Today the West Bank's night mass started coming true.
0:35.4	Protest is trying to bricks in there, using bamboo poles to smash vehicles.
0:39.4	It's a city where mothers carry guns along with their groceries.
0:44.4	The spaces that people can run to for safety are shrinking every day here.
0:51.4	I'm Claire Grimm and with the help of my BBC colleagues around the world
0:55.4	I'll be trying to get a better understanding of the stories that matter to all of us.
0:59.4	Today, Syria.
1:01.4	Huy today peaceful uprising lead to a decade-long civil war.
1:08.4	Lina Sinjab is a Syrian journalist and a senior reporter for the BBC in the Middle East.
1:13.4	Welcome to the Explanation Lena.
1:15.4	Thank you.
1:16.4	So our story really starts with the coming to part of Bashar Al Assad in July 2000.
1:21.4	What can you tell us about him?
1:23.4	Perhaps the audience around the world remembers that Bashar Al Assad didn't come as an elected president
1:29.4	but actually they have changed the constitution to fit him in if I may say to inherit power from his father in 2000.
1:38.4	And that was like a smooth kind of transfer of power because of the old guard that were surrounding his father since he took power in the 70s.
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