Bashar falls back on father’s brutal methods
Someone has pinned a poster up at the foreign passports window at the Syrian border post with Lebanon. It shows a dove of peace, surrounded by guns, each labelled with the name of a foreign news broadcaster – including the BBC.
The dove is surrounded, and under fire. But the bullets are bouncing off its feathers, which are the colour of the Syrian flag – white, red, green and black.
As usual, I have had nothing but courtesy since I arrived in Syria, even though the official line here, set by President Bashar al-Assad, is that its troubles are caused by a foreign conspiracy aided and abetted by the international media.
The other day the BBC went on a government trip to Deraa, the town where the uprising started in March last year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16666570
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