The Counterforce

[Otto]

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Otto

2012/3/4 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> The trip from Qusayr to Homs, about thirty kilometres, was made in the same
> way: by going from one house to another, from one vehicle to another, from
> one hand to another. A wide network of civilians helps the FSA and the
> revolution. At every stage, a car or a truck or a motorbike goes in front to
> check if the road is free. And when we moved, there were always people in
> front, around, behind us; mobiles were continually ringing in with the
> latest news. Everything happens as if a grid has been put in place to
> counter the police and security grid of the Ba’ath Party and the mukhabarats
> that has dominated the life of the country for decades, and in which the
> entire population, in one way or another, is caught. The counter grid,
> almost as effective, is made of civilian activists, notables, religious
> figures and, more and more, armed forces – the deserters who form the FSA.
> The counter grid resists the other one, circumvents it, and is even starting
> to absorb it in part. When you travel between the Lebanese border and Homs,
> it becomes visible. There has, of course, always been passive resistance to
> the regime’s grid, but now this second grid has completely broken away. As
> if Syrian society, since the spring, had split in two, and parallel
> societies were coexisting in the country, in mortal conflict.
>
> Jonathan Littell, Syrian Notebooks
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/03/01/jonathan-littell/syrian-notebooks
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