The bold, the beautiful, the brilliant of Daraya
July 24, 2018
In September 2011, the bold, beautiful and brilliant youth of Daraya, epitome of dignified non-violent activism, brandished flowers and distributed cold water bottles to the security forces facing them.
Among them were Yahya and Maan Cherbaji, and Ghiath Matar, arrested for daring to defy Assad. Ghiath's sadistically tortured body was thrown in front of his pregnant wife's door a few days later. After seven agonizing years waiting for news of their beloved disappeared, the Cherbaji family was informed today that Yahya was executed in January 2013, and that Maan finally succumbed to his tormentors in December 2013.
These Little Ghandis were eliminated by the savage regime, one by one, until there were no more flowers left, not even to throw on their graves.
They killed the peaceful, they killed the thoughtful, and along the way they also killed the world's conscience. Rest in peace, all of you, and may our abandoned prisoners of conscience find relief from their Assadist hell as we continue to drown in our collective great Syrian sorrow.
