Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness
2024-12-19 19:00:02 - From: Al monitor
In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service as martyrs.
But mothers are now nervous to display their sons' pictures, and no longer hide their bitterness towards the ousted leader for whom they sacrificed so much.
"It's true my son is dead," said Jamila Jabr, the 60-year-old mother of Humam, an army conscript who was killed in combat in 2012.
"But the important thing is that Bashar al-Assad is gone. He destroyed us and destroyed our children's futures and starved us."