Syria, still remembered a beautiful place for some people, is being devastated by the powers of injustice, anger, and violence. 
The hectic so-called “republic” is currently under a state of civil unrest. Rebels haven gotten together to form the Free Syrian Army, as intent to overrule the current regime’s army, the Syrian Army. The rebels are asking that the current president, Bashar Al-Assad, resigns. The Bashar family has ruled Syria for over five decades, placing the Syrian society under stressful political repression.
The movement in Syria transcends what is locally happening in that country. The movement is part of a major phenomenon, where other countries in Northern Africa and the Middle Eastern have gone under civil revolutions to overtake the national regime.
This movement has been coined by the media with the name: “Arab Spring”. The revolutions in other countries such as Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Algeria, and many others, served as a catalyzer for Syria to demand the political reforms they has been expected since the death of Hafez Al-Assad about ten years ago. Unfortunately, these reforms are not coming as easy as people want. The amount of devastation in Syria already exceeds the one from Libya, and the conflict is only intensifying.
While conducting a documentary on this subject, I realized something that media had not told me. Something that the only way I was able to realize was by personally meeting a Syrian citizen, with the story of a hard reality to tell.
Ralph Khayat is a student from St. Edwards University. He is a freshman student with major on biology. He was born and raised in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, even more than the capital. Aleppo has been one of the centers of conflict in the region, with heavy fighting between the two factions.
Previously, when I pictured Syria and a revolution, I pictured what the revolution meant in my country. The people against the regime. The popular vote demanding its divine right through the power of metal and powder. The good conquering evil. Nevertheless, the situation is different for Syrians like Ralph. In Syria, the conflict is not strictly between “the people” and the regime. Although the regime is the “fixed thing in the middle”, many of the Syrian people do not support the revolutionary movement, making them simply bystanders, and collateral damage of the competing factions acts.
It is just hard to imagine how to some people live like this. It is hard to think that you might die just because you leave your house; or that you might die because you don’t leave it. Over 40,000 lives have been taken by the conflict and the ambitions of competing factions, and as things are going, no resolution can be predicted in the foreseeable future.
On this documentary, the issue is explained in better depth.
