in march two thousand and eleven the arab spring reached syria the people started loudly voicing their anger and their longing for freedom the regime. reacted with what it did best violence arrests torture and. when the president addressed parliament weeks later the images eerily resembled those of his first speech eleven as earlier. when the hope of so many rested on him now he was a man spouting empty words he spoke of a conspiracy of foreign enemies to the applause from his hired at myra's. that you believe you have. the rebellion turned into a war everyone who turned against assad was labeled a terrorist by the regime the president had syrian towns and cities and the syrian