Muawiyah al-Sayasneh, one of the prominent figures who ignited the Syrian revolution in Daraa in the spring of 2011, became forcibly displaced in the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, after the Syrian regime forces besieging Daraa al-Balad imposed the departure of those who refused to settle out of the city.

For 14 days, the young Sayasna has been living in a mosque in the city of al-Bab in the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, with dozens of fighters from the Syrian opposition coming from southern Syria, amid harsh conditions, tight security and restrictions on movement.

Al-Sayasneh describes his departure from Daraa as a new stage of the struggle against the Syrian regime, which arrested him when he was a child for writing anti-regime graffiti on the walls of his school, warning of a dark fate for the regime's President Bashar al-Assad.

In a voice full of determination and determination, Al-Sayasneh said from his place of forced exile in the countryside of Aleppo that he left the city with his comrades in order to save the blood of the people in Daraa Al-Balad, and in response to promises to end the siege, the withdrawal of the Syrian regime forces, and the return of life to normal in the Houran area.

The Syrian young man in his twenties experiences feelings of sadness over the separation of his city, which he assures Al Jazeera Net that he did not leave it except under compulsion, after the Syrian regime considered his presence and his companions a stumbling block in the implementation of the agreement that is being implemented forward in Daraa Al-Balad.

Muawiyah al-Sayasneh was forced to leave Daraa to Aleppo to complete the agreement between the people and the regime in Daraa al-Balad (Al-Jazeera)

Memories of the revolution

Al-Sayasneh remembers 10 years ago in Syria’s history when his name became associated with the Syrian revolution and its launch in Daraa in the spring of 2011, after he wrote his famous phrase on the walls of his school, “It’s your turn, doctor,” in reference to the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, and the approaching revolution against his rule, coinciding with of the Arab Spring revolutions.

In the wake of the popular demonstrations and movement in Tunisia and Egypt, which Al-Sayasneh watched on television, he and his companions decided to write that phrase on the walls in their school, and it was not a global conspiracy targeting the government or foreign foreign parties aimed at striking the stability of the country’s security, according to the Syrian regime’s vision of the event.

The Syrian regime, which was distinguished by its security grip that governed the country, did not believe that someone wrote such a phrase, which drove him crazy and pushed him to take revenge, arresting Al-Sayasnah and his companions and taking them to the notorious security branches.

Al-Sayasneh believes that the Syrian revolution was destined to start from Daraa with the events of the Arab Spring (Al-Jazeera)

torture and brutality

Al-Sayasneh mentions to Al-Jazeera Net how he was arrested with his companions in February 2011 and subjected to brutal torture for a month and a half through electric shocks and beatings with the electric conductor (cable), as well as the use of the "ghost" method of torture, a pattern based on hanging the detainee and tying him from his hand until fading out

Al-Sayasneh said that the families asked about the fate of their detained children in the Political Security branch, which was headed at the time by Atef Najib, a relative of Bashar al-Assad, and the response was harsh by leaving and forgetting their children and giving birth to others. Daraa.

Then, events in Syria accelerated, and soon hundreds and then thousands of Daraa residents protested against the security’s behavior and its insult to the people, before the Syrian regime met the demonstrators with live bullets and killed dozens of victims. At that time, demonstrations spread in Homs, then Damascus, Aleppo, Hama and other cities.


Pride

A decade after the Syrian revolution and its transformation from the popular movement to armed fighting, the young man asserts that he does not feel regret for writing these phrases, and if he had the opportunity to repeat the ball again, indicating that he feels proud and proud of being considered "the bomber of the revolution."

The young Syrian has no doubts that the Syrian revolution will continue until it achieves its goals, and then dreams of completing his education, which was interrupted because of what happened to him in Daraa.