Vanessa Beeley
May 2018
” Syria is fine, and our Army is our safety and security. [..] The Syrian government is from us and we are from the Government. It is our sons who are fighting and sacrificing their souls to free this land, fighting for our dignity and pride.”
Ahmed Jabr lost his 23-year-old son, Mohammed on the 4th March 2013. Mohammed was not married, he was fighting with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) against ISIS in Qaryatain when he was killed.
Ahmed has 3 daughters and 1 other son, Yazen who was with us when Ahmed was speaking to me about the SAA.
Ahmed told Vanessa Beeley: “The Syrian Army is saving the world, not only Syria. For this reason, every family in Syria sends their children to fight for Humanity”.
My hope is that people in the West fully comprehend that this is the story of millions of Syrians inside Syria who have lost their children, their husbands, their fathers, sisters, brothers in the battles against terrorism. “Terrorism introduced by a foreign hand” as Ahmed tells us.
Western corporate media will have us believe the SAA is “murdering its own people” – these testimonies show how grotesque that narrative is.
Thank you to these families whose bravery will live on forever, long after the war is over. They gave their children so that our children may have a better future.
We are all Syria.
Video: https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.beeley/videos/10157980611943868/
Full Transcript:
“We in Syria, we used to live as one people, one house in all of Syria so we have this crisis which is in outside hands and no relationship with Syrian people who all love each other.
All sects live as one family together, many parts but one country. This foreign hand came to divide this country – they saw a beautiful country, defending the Arab world and nations. They wanted to break it and make it weak. The foreign hand has tried to destroy this country.
We have a great army and we represent the army. The army represents us and they have sacrificed so much but thank God we have the victory on our side. They brought every foreign terrorist in the universe to our country. It is the Western countries bringing us this terrorism. Thank God we stand by our Army as one hand. Our Army defends the whole Arab world and the world from this terrorism because it will spread from Syria to the world.
Our Army is ideologically represented and represents us also so thank God we have victory, but we are still losing martyrs. We are defending our country and our dignity, our Nation. The foreign hand is still supporting the terrorists in our land but thank God they failed so far, and we are defeating the terrorists.
Syria is fine, and our Army is our safety and security. We live inside the Syrian government and the Syrian state. The Syrian government is from us and we are from the Government. It is our sons who are fighting and sacrificing their souls to free this land, fighting for our dignity and pride.”
Vanessa Beeley is a British investigative journalist based in France. She is known for her articles on the Syrian war and her investigation on the White Helmets.