Anyone ever used to ask Hassan from which sect he belonged to. The 32 -year -old Syrian has been in Germany since 2015, which ran away in favor of anti -government forces after participating in his country’s civil war. But now they do.
Hasan, who lives in Berlin, told DW, “The level of communal misconduct and indecent language on social media is intense.” Like an interview by every other simple Syrian for this story, it did not want to use the full name, so it could openly talk about a highly sensitive theme between Syrian in Germany and a highly sensitive subject in Syria. “We are losing each other on this.”
From “this”, Hasan means recent violence in Syria, in which two communities were seen, drews and Bedouin-Sunis, beginning to fight in the southern province of Sweda in mid-July. The violence began due to tight-for-toat kidnapping between the two groups, and then increased.
This is not recently the only discovery inter-communal violence in Syria. In March, after rumors of rebellion, there was a fight between the Alvite community of Syria and other Syrians.
In both cases, illegal killings involved by most groups included robbery, kidnapping and violence. Therefore, in both cases, the interim government of Syria was invincible to maintain security.
Those conflicts have now been extended to the Syrian community in Germany. Hasan said, “I think we cannot be friends because I am Sunni,” Hasan continued.
Hasan’s friends are Majid, Drews and have returned from Sweda shortly before the recent violence. “I think people are very intense about this in Berlin,” he said. “I think it is still an old -fashioned mindset, they still do such tasks like [Assad] The governance is in the batch. ,
“Many of us in the Syrian community are feeling this change,” confirms Razan Rashidi, Executive Director of the Syrian Campaign’s Human Rights Group, which is located in Berlin. “In the early years of the revolution, there was a strong shared struggle. People rarely asked who was Sunni, addition, Christian, Kurd. We were opposing dictatorship and calling for freedom.”
A Syrian dispute in Germany
But thanks to recent events, it is changing. On July 20 at Daseldorf, two groups of several hundred protesters met outside the city’s main train station. One group was a Kurdish supporter, the other supported the interim Syrian government.
“After the initial oral stimuli, … a battle broke out,” Dusseldorf police toldTwo people were arrested, one injured and bottles and stones were thrown.
The same weekend, in a protest in Berlin, a small group of men in a 400 strong crowds was heard against Drews and Israel. Berlin Mayor Kai Vegner, Member of Conservative Christian Democrats, Comment on short video clipSaying that the calls for murder and terror in Berlin were not acceptable. The local police is investigating and the Syrian people are threatened to find who have made discovery statements.
Syria and Israel have been in war for years and have recently increased tension between Syrian’s Israeli bombing, alleged “defense”, Drews minority and other Syrians.
For example, a 30 -year -old waiter in Berlin, Ahmed, recently stopped talking to a draus friend. “Hey said he wanted to buy property in Syria near the Israeli border,” Ahmed says. “You can’t just trust the thesis people,” he says angrily, referring to the minority. “How could they trade with Israel?” He then dials it back. “I do not mean all the dreos, just something,” he says later epofophty.
Most of the footage of Berlin protest shows revolutionary songs singing Syrian. Arabic language outlet Syria TV interviewed seven protesters. All of them said equal things about their inspirations for the stogue.
“This country belongs to all of us. We all should be co -existence,” one said. “We need to stand together,” another couple.
Another protector explained, “We organized this performance in Berlin to reject Syrian domestic affairs and reject efforts to sow ethnic and communal conflict.”
“Yes, some ugly incidents have happened and yes, there are real apprehensions for those who have said that it has not been rejected,” Rashidi said whether Germany could see more violence in this way.
“But some German headlines are unnecessarily dangerous in bees. Most Syrians come here to avoid violence, not to make it again. Anger and heart -breaking we are all feeling.” But the idea that Germany is going to see that Syria was playing on its streets. “
How to reduce stress in Syrian migrants?
At the same time, emotions among Syrian migrant people in Germany are running high, the largest community in Syria in Europe.
Interviewers and analysts all point to social media, which makes things very bad. Online disintegration and vulgar language speech is a large amount of speech, some of which are certainly paid or pushed by parties and governments that prefer to see Syria divided.
One of the Syrian campaign projects, she sees, says Rashidi. She will like everyone “To implement the Digital Services Act, urge the European Union CommissionWhich is to ensure that platforms protect social media users from online. , Another project Call to the United Nations and European leader to prevent partitions in Syria.
Rashidi believes that there should be more support for Syrian civil society organizations who are “working around the clock, fighting lawyers for justice, fighting heels divisions and disintegration.”
Another Syrian initiative in Germany, the “9th” movement of the month, is trying to combat stress. His name came from the fact that political prisoners in Syria were released on 9 December 2024, and they want to oppose the ninth of every month. Members come from around Syria and include activists who were in protest against the Syrian dictatorship before the war started in 2011.
Over the last weekend, he organized a silent vigilance without a flag, outside the Federal Foreign Office of Germany in Berlin, to oppose “massacre, siege … and communal hysteria”.
One of the group’s co-founders told DW that most like Syrian, they reject foreign intervention in Syria and therefore want to see the interim government more when he comes into justice and accountability.
The co-founder explained, “The movement was established to advocate for a democratic Syria contained in the RUL of human rights and law,” the co-founder explained; He wanted to remain anonymous because the group has not yet a press spokesperson or official manifesto. “We believe that Assad regime is down, but there is a first step towards Syria we want and we fight: a Syria for all Syrians.”
Edited by: Jess Smi
