Olya Al-Ahmed BNR
Turning it into a state with radical Islamist rules will kill Syria, she believes
“Assad is a big culprit in what happened to him and his country.”
This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by Olya Al-Ahmed, a journalist, publicist and translator.
“What happened in Syria these days, after such a long lull – it seemed that the Syrian army was falling like in a cartoon,” she pointed out.
3 million Syrians are in Turkey, at least some of them should return. The person who was hindering this process is Bashar Assad, Al-Ahmed added.
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“Syrians in Bulgaria are divided into two camps – some are jubilant that Bashar has fallen, others are not. Those who are skeptical about the fall of the regime are afraid that Syria will become an Islamist state.”
“There is no such option – light terrorism, non-radical terrorism. Terrorism is terrorism. All these particles are the tentacles of the same octopus,” explained Olya Al-Ahmed regarding the profile of the rebel groups that overthrew Assad’s rule in Syria.
“There will be a power-sharing arrangement again. We cannot expect the war to end so quickly, the refugees to return and everything to be smooth. We do not know how these people will govern the country and whether they will not enter into infighting among themselves,” Al-Ahmed noted and drew a parallel with Libya – “is there a normal Libya now?”
“For everything to happen so quickly, there is a contract. Every war is a deal,” believes Olya Al-Ahmed.
“This is a Russian-American game. A treaty, an agreement between Trump and Putin. Trump is preparing for the oath, but he has the right to premature diplomacy, to prepare the ground. These are assumptions: Putin probably told him – give me Ukraine, I’ll give you Syria, but not 100%, he will leave the Russian bases on the coast – in Tartus and Latakia. In Tartus, they surrounded the bases, they didn’t touch the bases, and the fact that the Russians didn’t go out to bomb the convoys is proof that there is a treaty. It’s as clear as in a computer game,” she commented on the program “Before Everyone”.
Olya Al-Ahmed, who lived in Aleppo, Homs and Damascus, said that her relatives from Homs “don’t want to evacuate, because when you run away, you don’t know what awaits you.” Regarding the fate of Christians in Syria, she also outlined a pessimistic scenario:
“There is a huge Armenian diaspora in Aleppo. Homs is a city populated by Christians – there are Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox. They are the ones who are afraid of the new government. It is no wonder that Syria will turn from the free state it once was, just like Iran, into a state with strict radical Islamist rules, where Sharia will rule. This will be disastrous. Syrians are an extremely intelligent and freedom-loving people. This will kill Syria.”
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