What happens when a tyrant flees
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday Morning the sound of gunfire filled the air in Damascus. The noise, not of fighting, but celebrations. President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled to Russia. A family which ruled for more than 50 years, brought down by a rebel offensive which had begun less than two weeks earlier.
Kate Lamble is joined by Rajan Menon, Marcel Dirsus, and John Jenkins to discuss what's next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region.
Read: The fall of Assad represents a revolution in the Middle East, by Rajan Menon; Bashar al-Assad will find no peace in Moscow, by Marcel Dirsus; The Syrian crucible, by John Jenkins
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| 1:19.5 | On Sunday morning, the sound of gunfire filled the air in Damascus. |
| 1:22.7 | The noise, not of fighting, but celebration. I cannot imagine we will arrive to this moment. |
| 1:27.3 | The dictator is gone. |
| 1:29.1 | President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled to Russia, |
| 1:33.2 | a family which ruled for more than 50 years, |
| 1:36.4 | brought down by a rebel offensive which had begun less than two weeks earlier. |
| 1:41.7 | The presidential palace was soon stormed and ransacked, prisons emptied as families |
| 1:47.8 | searched for lost loved ones. Rumors swirling of lower levels of cells yet to be uncovered. |
| 1:55.3 | In the historic Umayad Mosque, the rebel commander Abu Mohammed al Jalani, declared victory, speaking of the 13 years of |
| 2:04.4 | civil war Syria had been through. How many people were displaced across the world, he said, |
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