Saturday, July 21, 2012

Syrian opposition: inside and outside

"Perhaps most significant for the future of the uprising is the growing animosity between the exiled dissidents who have monopolized the narrative of the revolution internationally and the activists who have risked their lives to remain in Syria...Everyone who says he represents us is a liar, and the proof of this is that they are not adopting the demands of the revolution," Moaz Shami, an activist in Damascus, the Syrian capital, said via Skype. "They are all politicians trying to climb on our shoulders and on our goals."