For more than 11 months, the Syrian Revolution has been calling for dignity, freedom, and citizenship. The Revolution has been calling for Syrians’ constitutional right to peaceful assembly, demonstration, strike, dialogue, and public meetings in the new Syria. The Syrian Revolution has made a full break from the regime, which is based on the personality cult of its leader. The Revolution aspires to a new social contract among equal citizens, under which those who govern are accountable to their people, following decades of stifling dictatorship.
In the midst of the Revolution for dignity, and while the regime is committing crimes against humanity against Syrian citizens, the head of the regime formed a committee to draft a new constitution. The committee met for a few short weeks, behind closed doors and with no opportunity for public comment, to produce a new draft constitution that was no more than an amendment to Syria’s notorious constitution of 1973. The committee delivered the draft constitution to the head of the regime, who accepted the draft and suggested no additional changes.

As our Revolution approaches the end of its first year, the regime’s violence has escalated to levels of violence and brutality that are unprecedented in the world’s modern history.
The massacres taking place are crimes against humanity committed by the regime against the Syrian revolutionaries. Meanwhile, there is weakness in the Revolution’s political representation and an international obstacle to any serious action by the Arab and International community to support us during this time of suffering and the humanitarian disaster across the country.
In light of these circumstances, our emotions and reactions are difficult to contain. There is confusion at many levels of our Revolution, including among activists on the ground.

In the latest development in the series of crimes committed by the Syrian regime against activists and those who document its many violations

The regime’s army killed one of the Revolution’s most prominent citizen journalists in the Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs yesterday. Martyr Rami Al-Sayyed, with his camera that streamed live from the neighborhood, exposed the official state media’s lies and refuted the regime’s fabrications about conditions in the city since the beginning of the Revolution.

Rami was 27 years old and a father to 1.5-year-old Maryam. He was among the first to volunteer to photograph and film demonstrations, as well as the wounded and the martyrs. He was among the first to verify and document the continuous shelling of Baba Amr and the abuses committed by the regime and its army.