MSDThe March uprising formed a renaissance foundation and a real basis of the popular revolution in mid-March, which is in its twelfth year.
The revolution that spread throughout Syria, from Daraa to Al-Qamishli, was the result of the repressive practices and policies of the central authoritarian regime that strengthened the Security Authority, suppressed freedoms and political life and created sectarianism and extremism inside Syrian society.
The demonstrators demanding freedom and dignity were met with bullets by the security services of the authority in Damascus, and the inhuman treatment that showed the brutality of the tyranny regime unprecedentedly in modern era. The regional and international interventions led to the militarization of the revolutionary movement, bloody events developed and the country became an arena of proxy war, the growth of extremism and sectarian strife, the commission of crimes, attempted murder, detention and kidnapping outside of the law.
The phase of regional and international interventions and its support for the opposition, which characterized with the political Islam, served the regime’s claims to describe the revolution as an extremist and sectarian revolution on the one hand, and served to protect the authority of Damascus from collapse on the other hand. The Syrian Revolution turned into a counter-revolution, into a struggle between the regime and the political Islamic opposition to seize power, and the legitimate demands of the Syrian people for freedom and dignity were neutralized from the political scene, so the revolution turned into a civil war, terrorist and extremist organizations emerged as well as Syrian and human infrastructures were destroyed.
Syria has become an arena for the conflict of regional and international powers and carried out their agendas by some of the Syrian parties themselves, as a result of which, Turkey has occupied about 15% of Syria’s territories and the civil war has led to the death of more than half a million people, the displacement of more than half of the Syrian people and the destruction of more than 70% of infrastructure.
The Syrian Democratic Council holds the opposition, which is characterized with the political Islam, responsible for changing the revolution its path as much as the Council holds the Syrian regime responsible for eliminating it, and the Council believes that Syria urgently needs a national solution to end the political, social and economic crises and make it a democratic and pluralistic political regime that guarantees the rights of Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and other Syrian components, and that makes freedoms and human rights as its constitutional basis. As Syria is a state has many cultures, ethnicities, religions and sects, so the decentralized regime is the best solution for managing the state, achieving a sustainable development, maintaining the civil peace and national unity. The political solution must be achieved on the basis of consensus on a Social Contract based on the principles of the common homeland, the Democratic Republic, the rights of the components and free citizenship as basics, and a Democratic National Constitution that represents the will of all Syrians and guarantees their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.
Nowadays, Syria is living its worst state ever, as its sovereignty is constantly violated, large parts of its territories are under the control of occupation, its territories are subjected to division, its people are displaced internally and externally, its citizens live below the poverty line, and the authority of Damascus has increased its brutality and security more than before. The inability of the international community to find a political solution to end the Syrian crisis and make the country a democratic state in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254. As well as the weakness of the Syrian opposition due to the lack of real representation of the opposition Democratic Forces which are active in the Syrian scene, has led to hinder prospects for a political solution and prolongate the Syrian crisis.
The Syrian Democratic Council stresses once again that there is no solution in Syria unless the Syrians themselves join together to find a solution for their country and depend on themselves in order to save Syria and achieve a better future for next generations of Syrians. The SDC stressed that all Syrian National Democratic Forces have a historic responsibility, and they must intensify efforts and work to correct the path of the Syrian revolution, despite all internal and external challenges. The Council believes that there is still hope and these forces must overcome the distance and divisive situation and the weakness of confidence in the others, and work together to establish a strategy and a plan for a clear political solution, which they will present to the Syrians and the international community to adopt and work on, after the failure of all official international paths that were adopted. No political solution can be formulated with the same tools and goals, and it is necessary to proceed from the real reality of what the real forces represent and seek to achieve the goals of the Syrian Revolution.
On March 15th, 2022
The Syrian Democratic Council
